ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns

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Chapter 13
CHAPTER 13

Symmetric Proxy Pattern 13

Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract

notions into a picture-language, which is itself nothing

but an abstraction from objects of the senses; the

principal being more worthless even than its phantom

proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former

shapeless to boot. On the other hand, a symbol is

characterized by a translucence of the special in the

individual, or of the general in the special, or of the

universal in the general; above all though the

translucence of the eternal through and in the

temporal. It always partakes of the reality which it

renders intelligible; and while it enunciates the whole,

abides itself as a living part in that unity of which it is

the representative.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no country in the world where machinery is

so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the

water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of

machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the

Symmetric motion of the great wheels is the most

beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

—Oscar Wilde

Computers that are commercially available are

symmetric or non-handed but it is possible that some

existing software and algorithms are left- or right-

handed.

—Philip Emeagwali

Simultaneous Game Moves and Outcomes

One of the more interesting problems for programmers is dealing with interaction

over the Internet. This is especially true in the case of games where the developer

must work out how two or more players can interact in the context of a set of rules