base32 Twitter Coordinates

[SWF(width = 800, height=700, frameRate=30, backgroundColor=0x000000)]
var canvas:BitmapData = new BitmapData(1000,800,false, 0x000000);
addChild(new Bitmap(canvas));

var coords:String ="";
var index:int = 0;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);
 
var s:Shape = new Shape();
with (s.graphics) beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 0.3), drawCircle(4,4,4)
var brush:BitmapData = new BitmapData(10,10, true, 0x00000000);
brush.draw(s);

var pnt:Point = new Point();
function onLoop(evt:Event):void {
     if (coords.length > 0){
		 for (var i:int = 0; i< 100;i++){
			 if (index < coords.length){
				 pnt.x+= 0.2;
				 pnt.y = parseInt(coords.substr(index,3), 32) / 2;
				 index+=3;
				 canvas.copyPixels(brush, brush.rect, pnt, null, null, true);
			 }else{
				break;
				removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);
			 }
		 }
	 }
}

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom");
var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
vars.q = "as3, flash";
vars.rpp = "100";
vars.page = 1;
vars.lang = "en";
req.data = vars;
req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
loader.load(req);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
function onLoaded(evt:Event):void{
	var searchData:XML = new XML(loader.data);
	var atom:Namespace = searchData.namespace("");
	default xml namespace = atom;
	var titles:String = "";
	for each(var entry:XML in searchData.entry){
		titles += entry.title.toString();
	}
	var index:int = 0;
	var words:Array = titles.split(" ");
	words.sort();
	for (var i:int = 0; i<words.length; i++){
		if (words[i].match(/RT|@|#|http/g).length == 0){
			var word:String = words[i].replace(/[W]/g, "");
			if (word.length > 1){
				coords += word + " ";
			}
		}
	}
}

This snippet does a twitter search and sorts the results alphabetically. It then reads through the results 3 characters at a time – each set of 3 characters is converted to base32 and then used a y coordinate on a plot.

In order for the swf to be worth looking at, I think I’d need to add an input field. I may do that later… but for now here are a few stills: