Video Freeze-frame In Flash Player 8, you can use the new BitmapData class to create bitmaps at runtime with ActionScript. This class h …
Monitoring the Webcam To monitor changes in the video stream captured from the webcam, you need to take regular snapshots of the video …
Pixel Brightness In my first attempt at this experiment I actually wrote some code that looped through every pixel in the current snaps …
Difference Blend Mode This solution came about when a friend suggested that I should take a look at the difference blend mode, one of 1 …
Changing the Color of Pixels You can change the color of any specific pixel in a BitmapData object using the setPixel() method. I could …
Early this year, I was inspired to create an experimental piece called varicose-g. Varicose-g uses a simple branching algorithm paired …
The Original Concept: A Moving Artery While browsing through my collection of FLA files, I stumbled on an experiment called vein-1 that …
Increasing Performance Through Custom Bitmap Caching With Flash Player 8, I thought I would be able to increase massively the performa …
Blurring Remnant Veins Being able to continually lay down new vein segments without a performance penalty was great, but it quickly be …
The Macromedia Flash 8 Image API describes the new BitmapData ActionScript class and various other associated methods that form an impr …
Using Bitmaps in ActionScript The new BitmapData ActionScript Class is used to represent a bitmap object in memory. When you create a n …
Displaying Images An instance of the BitmapData class is stored in memory and never seen until you decide it is time for it to make an …
Working with Images from the Library You can create a bitmap object directly from an image in the Library that has a linkage identifier …
Working with Loaded Images It is not possible to load an external file (JPEG, GIF, PNG, or Flash movie) directly into an instance of t …
Flash Graphic Effects Learning Guide Macromedia Flash 8 introduces a number of new features for producing new types of graphic effects. …
Using Flash Filters Filters let you add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips. They are most often associated wi …