A simple Koch curve experiment in AS3, port from Java version. Koch curve discovered by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch in 1904.

Origin Java code: Computer Graphics for Java Programmers by Leen Ammeraal and Kang Zhang

You can download AS3 source code to try: koch.zip .

Algorithms are mathematics involved. But it could be trade-off and not necessary for all details due to my time. Some time I will try to look on math equations but most time I will directly to code them in Actionscript 3 first and see whether I understand and comment directly.

I saw some code written in C as someone discussed it as much effective than regular ‘best practise’ C code. He said it’s because those codes got idea from Assembly actually. Of course if you code C with assembly method, you could check the machine code (read: mov, add, goto) and you know they’re effective or not. But for Flash, it’s a little bit more hard. Maybe if some day I found an algorithm if necessary to be optimized, I will try to read low level code (similar to read Assembly) with the decompiler provided by Adobe. Also have to have some experiential testing.