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Using Macromedia Flash: Importing onto a Layer

Macromedia Flash – Importing onto a Layer
In an earlier exercise, you imported the gnome.png image directly into the documentR …

Using Macromedia Flash: Test Your Progress

Macromedia Flash – Test Your Progress
To finish, you can test your document in Flash. This tests the SWF file in Flash Player. Fo …

Webcam Motion Detection: Using the BitmapData ...

Webcam Motion Detection: Using the BitmapData API in Flash 8
Some time ago I came across various processing experiments that monitored …

Capturing Webcam Video

Capturing Webcam Video
Since the release of Flash Player, you can capture the video stream from a webcam and display it inside a Flash …

Video Freeze-frame

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

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

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

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

Changing the Color of Pixels
You can change the color of any specific pixel in a BitmapData object using the setPixel() method. I could …

Varicose-g: High-Performance Graphics in Flash ...

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

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 C ...

Increasing Performance Through Custom Bitmap Caching
With Flash Player 8, I thought I would be able to increase massively the performa …

Blurring Remnant Veins

Blurring Remnant Veins
Being able to continually lay down new vein segments without a performance penalty was great, but it quickly be …

Introducing the Image API in Flash 8

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

Using Bitmaps in ActionScript
The new BitmapData ActionScript Class is used to represent a bitmap object in memory. When you create a n …

Image API in Flash 8: Displaying Images

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

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

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

Flash Graphic Effects Learning Guide
Macromedia Flash 8 introduces a number of new features for producing new types of graphic effects. …

Using Flash Filters

Using Flash Filters
Filters let you add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips. They are most often associated wi …

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