Shapevent

I started a new blog the other day… where I’m posting daily ActionScript code snippets:

http://actionsnippet.com/

Only just started messing with pixel bender yesterday. Wasn’t sure what I’d think of it… for some reason I was under the impression that it would be cumbersome and unintuitive … well, that was the wrong impression. After a few hours of playing around and digging through code examples, I was up and running…. and very addicted… Here’s one of the many experiments that I ended up creating:

Click below image to view flash version (you’ll need flash player 10)

There’s tons of pixel bender code out there…. just use google if you want to figure it out. Also, gotoAndLearn has 2 great tutorials to get you started…

When flash 8 first came out I spent a week or two playing with BitmapData and writing some AS1 style libraries… doing things like photoshop style polar coordinates filters, brightness/contrast and distortable vector shapes that I would use as brushes. Finally got around to re-uploading these after changing servers… so here they are:

Click any of the below images to view the entire texture archive