Sometimes it’s good to break things…
During a recent project I needed to find a way of simulating digital interference on an image / video stream. At first, it seemed the best approach might be to use the graphics API or Bitmap effects, but why imitate when you can have the real thing. Read : Smack My Glitch Up »
I’ve been off the web radar for several months. The later part of 2009 saw many changes and, despite being extremely busy with several interesting projects and personal studies, I have somewhat neglected this blog. Read : Another Day, Another Design »
Just a quick (and slightly belated) announcement.
The distinguished Bandcamp has recently been regaled with another round of audio-visual snacks. I’ve had a lot of fun working on them, and there will be even more in the not too distant future.
The whole Bandcamp site in fact is bursting with more and more tasty new features which you should check out. In terms of my little contribution on the music visualistions front, there are currently four new full fat flavors to feast on… Read : More Music Visualisations »
I’ve recently started weaning myself off of Flashdevelop and onto FDT, mainly because it’s cross platform but also because it means I can use the same IDE for coding and compiling Actionscript and Java.
The other clinching factor was it’s plugins, notably Subversive for SVN browsing and team collaboration goodness.
This evening though, I tried checking out a Google code project and got the following error: Read : Subversive & Google Code »
Original image by Edwin Tofslie
I was having a few gradient alpha mask disabilities today and thought I should share my misery and consequential solution with anyone who might run into the same problems! Read : Masking Transparent Bitmaps »
Fit DisplayObject into Rectangle Utilities for Creating Thumbnails & Resizing
BitmapData Average Colours Finding the Average Colours in an Image
BitmapData Colour Palette Extracting Interesting Colour Palettes from an Image
Double Sided 3D Plane in FP10 Creating Double Sided Card DisplayObjects
Smack My Glitch Up AS3 BitmapData Glitch Generator
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