Curriculum Vitae Ron Valstar

programming

• Flash Actionscript 3 (FDT, Papervision3D, Away3D, pureMVC, Box2D, Greensock, amfPHP, SmartFoxServer etc...)
• Javascript (jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous)
• HTML, XML, CSS (semantic and strict XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, XSLT)
• PHP/mySQL (Wordpress, Drupal, Codeigniter, Propel)
• Java / Processing
• Lingo (Director)

interaction design

• prototyping
• user interface design
• information visualisation
• functional design
• wireframing
• conceptualisation
• use cases

graphic design

• illustration
• concept art
• textures
• logos
• page layouts

Seattle public library iPad application

3D panorama viewer of the Seattle public library for the iPad.

Garnier puistenbattle

Realtime online multiplayer game for Hyves. The loser gets a mangled profile picture.

Novartis virtual tour prototype

A virtual 3d panorama tour, consisting of multiple panoramas through which you navigate by space or by stories.

De Blauwe Planeet Flash port

A tool for kids to learn geography. It's a Flash port of an earlier Director CDrom application.

Soundcircus website

Flash website that won an FWASOTD (again).

Pixelgraphics Air application

A crossplatform Air application that turns image sequences into an HTML5 3D viewer that works crossdevice, crossplatform and crossbrowser.

Green Today website

Tatarataa!

PHP/XML website.

deepRED

An HTML5 website with lots of streaming video (no Flash). I advised the client on the technology concerning different platforms and eventually developed the end product.

Allerhande

I was front-end actionscripter in the Fabrique/Lukkien/freelancers SCRUM team that developed the Allerhande website.

Vacansoleil

Front-end Flash as3 development for a zoomable paralax vacation website.

3D panoramas

User interface design and front-end Flash as3 development for an application that links 3-dimensional panoramic views for architectural photography.

Kees Kroot

Advice and Flash development for a site that combines flat photograpy with Papervision3D to create a realistic view of Kees's head with stuff popping out. Won an FWASOTD.

Rekentuin

Development of a serious gaming environment.

Blauwe planeet

This is an actually an older CD-Rom project I'd worked on before at Shapers for Thieme Meullenhoff. Within a week I created a Flash prototype that looked better and worked better than the original Director version.

Rabobank unplugged

Lead developer for a 1m by 2m touch screen interface navigating through lifesize videos.

new Mitsubishi Colt

Lead developer for the new Colt site. A Flash site with lots of video interwoven with content. And a scrollable panoramic video with 3D sound.

FC Walvisch

Re-design and creation of the site of one of the foremost Dutch sound studios.

Nationale IQ test

Creation of the digital equivalent of a yearly TV questionaire.

Elffantasy map

An interactive zoomable map for the festival. All data on the map was loaded from a Google Earth kml file.

Kosmonaut

Design and creation of a website that depicted a wooden desktop over which a camera pans, zooms and rotates.

SFHorizon

Concept and development of a 3D environment where predictions about the future where depicted as a starry wormhole.

Ome Willem

Interaction design, graphic design and development for the Ome Willem website.

Kleuren Speuren

From concept to final product of a childrens CD-rom about colour.

Time

To combine my curiosity about the abilities of Google Docs and the age of the universe and everything else I made a small application that shows you the relative distance in time between past occurences and future predictions. All the data is taken from a spreadsheet residing in the cloud at Google Docs

Stampomatic

To extend my Servo-Croatian vocabulary I made a jQuery application with which you can translate words from one language to another. Then add the translations to categories which you can practice. Al the data including your progress in a certain category is stored locally by means of cookies.

ffBatch

In my spare time I like making textures with Filter Forge. They also have a batch renderer but it has no interface, you can only work it command line. So I made an online interface to which you can upload a filter (XML), set all possible rendering and animation options, and subsequently download a zip file that contains all the files you need: a single click and your batch is rendering.

SFBrowser

Most content management systems have a fairly crummy way of uploading and managing files. With jQuery and PHP I made a very extensive file uploader that can be hooked onto any CMS. You can even port it to a different server side language through the use of connectors.

Tinysort

Tinysort is a tiny a jQuery plugin that only does one thing: it sorts the selectors return value in almost any possible way.

PSP ebook reader

Without modding my PSP I created an eBook reader for it. PHP runs through a folder containing eBook text files. It turns them into HTML which you can then put on your PSP to read.

Perlin noise port from Java to Actionscript 3

Since my Processing endavours I've grown quit fond of Perlin noise. The Flash implementation was rather poor so I converted Ken Perlins original Java class to Actionscript and implemented octaves, falloff and random seed.

contributed 3D primitives to Papervision3D

When I started with Papervision3D it had just been ported from as2 to as3. The only primitive it had then was a plane. So I contributed a number of primitives (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone) some of which still reside in there today.

Strange attractor renderer

This started of in Processing but soon grew into a Java project.

The amazingly stupid frogs from space

A Flash game in which you fly a ufo and abduct sheep by way of first contact.