Rating: 
Summary: Not all that Impressive
Review: This book will not teach you anything about how math is used in Flash technically in a "how to manor." You can use the movies provided to teach yourself. This book is basically just a bunch of Flash guys paid to show off thier work. Each chapter has a different author and they walk you through the creative process and code of the movies featured. Each author has thier own unique style. Some chapters have amazing Flash movies and some are simply unimpressive. All of the .flas are available online for you to dissect and play with. If you like this kind of stuff, then you may like this book. If you have a ton of money and want a book to "play" with, I would recommend this book. Otherwise, spend your money on something that can actuallly teach you something.
Rating: 
Summary: Forget the Coffee Table...Keep this One by the Computer
Review: This is honestly one of the best books that I've picked up in a long time. There are so many books lately, that appear to be nothing more than a ploy at being the first book on the latest release of such and such software application. Flash Math Creativity avoids using interface clips from the Flash authoring environment, in order to concentrate on the content and not on something that has a much more limited shelf life. This book has so much to offer beyond getting acquainted with Flash 5 or MX or whatever. Becuase of the choice of displaying only raw code, it's probably not the best choice for a beginning Flash user. The examples, although excellent, aren't always well annotated, and often leaves you scratching your head -- but that's part of the fun.I really appreciate the fluid examples, and the challenge of using the provided content for further investigation. These experiments should keep me busy for some time. The graphics are quite beautiful and it would be hard to look at them and ignore the value of these creations on the basis that it doesn't have a practical application in the area of web design, as one reviewer stated. Plus, when did I start reading books and enjoying Flash only to do corporate stuff.
Rating: 
Summary: incomplete codes
Review: very good designs to stimulate creativity using maths. Too bad the downloads don't contain all the codes. For example, each author writes several sections, and in each sections there are some samples, some are variations one design, but the variations can be quite substantial at times. The download only gives the basic design. You would have to figure out how the other ones will look like on the screen, without the movie clip design. This is not satisfactory.
Rating: 
Summary: Good for Inspiration, but not on concepts
Review: While this book can encourage you to explore the creative aspects of Flash, it will not be much use to the practical designer/developer.
There are plenty of pretty pictures, and the source code in printed in the book (but not included on a CD). However, I found it lacking descriptions of the underlying mathematical principles and concepts.
This makes a great coffee table book for geeks.
| 
