Trivial to write a distance equation or draw a polar chart but it is these trivial tasks that can bog down our application performance. In our last FlashMN meeting, it is brought to my attention that the Flex Point class already has many commonly used features like distance, add, subtract, interpolate, normal, polar. Doh! time to refactor ! Here is a simple Point demo.
Another common, trivial task, rotate display object from center. RotateDemo