Math, charts and Algorithmists

One of my favorite ActionScript bloggers must be The Algorithmist because he is also an mathematician and you can learn a lot about programming by understanding the problem; sometimes reading/repeating Flash tutorials is just not enough.Even very old stuff on blog are useful, check download section and, for example as2 wedge class file. This is not open source file, so you’ll have to download it by yourself. This is a pie-shaped wedge drawing class using a quad. Bezier as a primitive.In order to create entire pie like image shows use next code:var xC:Number = 100;var yC:Number = 100;var rad1:Number =

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