<a href="http://troxandcompany.com/flash-flower-logo-or-an-ode-to-the-wondrously-mathematical-vector/logo-blossom-png/" rel="attachment wp-att-179"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-179 alignleft" title="Blossom Logo" src="http://troxandcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/logo-blossom-140x140.png" alt="" width="140" height="140" /></a>My attempt at using Flash.  What an amazing program.  It has many features which I have found useful in creating animations and movies, all using my favorite object type – vectors.

My bias for vectors is due simply to it being so doggone logical.  If you look in the real world, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">everything </span>is measureable.  No, I am not completely of a scientific/technical persuasion.  However, we are in the virtual, digital world, where we must subscribe to all that is pixelated, and all that has the inevitable failure of fuzziness.  Vectors: the sharp edges, colors, and scalability.  I can measure these things in feet, inches, meters, centimeters, miles and light-years!  I can involve them in formulas, and perform calculations with them!
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<a href="http://adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a>

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For the logo animation, I wanted to symbolize the process of a design project.  To start we have a bare bones partnership of T Rox &amp; Co and yourself.  Then, by applying the design process, the project shall grow and bloom into the finished product.

[red_box]In this case, the branch vectors were utilized as the outline for an image map.  In order for the branches to blossom, the user must hover over the branch.  Very articulated and exact, no?[/red_box]
On the other hand, vector's counterpart raster (ooh even the sound of the word, blech), is there to evade a designers’ every wish to manipulate.  Unless of course you want to make the image smaller.  Oh yes, you may whittle the poor thing away with your brushes, and burns, and dodges.  Scale down solely.  Smaller by golly.

Let’s leave the raster stagnantly safe shall we?  It is safer for them that way.