Sneak peek :: Physics

We’re so close; I can smell it! Our new site is careering dangerously towards completion. One element of the homepage is a frivolous physics environment which I was kindly allowed the time to make in Flash using the Box2DFlash physics engine.

The engine has been ported from Eric Catto’s powerful C++ physics engine (Box2D). It took a little time to adjust to some of the coding conventions that have also found their way from the C++ version but after that initial steep learning curve the engine is fantastic to work with.

I’ve released this today before the site launch so that people can play with it and inevitably find the bugs which I’ve lovingly engineered into it. Feel free to put it through its paces!

http://demos.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/physics/

This post was written by Gareth on September 24, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Beautiful UV^d Logo

Our snail paced re-brand has evolved into a rather brisk ramble (we are nearly out of breath) and as you can see we have settled on a new logo. Actually we have almost completed the web layouts but that’s another story (why say it in one post when you can say it in two!).

The basic premise behind the logo / re-brand was that the original Ultraviolet Design brand no longer represented the type of work we do and how we wish to be seen to the wider audience; with the only recognisable industry word in our name emphasising ‘design’, we felt that our other attributes were being unfairly over-powered. For instance, whilst we do web design, the design element is only one function we have to perform in an overall process of many. To put it another way, to emphasise only one skill of the many skills we have seems a little short sighted!

As such, we have re-branded ourselves UV^d and the website will follow shortly. No, it really will! Watch this space.

This post was written by Patrick on June 29, 2009 at 4:33 pm