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For quite some time now, I have been playing with breaking DisplayObjects into a grid to sample pixel data in order to create visualizations. I have spent time with this in both Actionscript and in Processing (see project). For Actionscript in particular though, I wanted to make the process cleaner and easier to implement. What has resulted is a slightly tangential project which ultimately makes sampling pixel data easier while offering a whole separate set of features. In its simplest form, the BitmapSegmentor allows you to take a DisplayObject's bitmapData and break it into a grid of individual segments. These segments can then be used for various purposes, including pixel data sampling. (more...)actionscript, actionscript 3, as3, bitmap, bitmap segmentor, bitmapdata, color, color sampler, demo, display object, flash, flex, grid, sample, sampling, segments, segmet video

Yeah, I know, I am ridiculously late with the weekly links. I could create all sorts of excuses and arguments, but instead of that, I am just going to post the links.

I will try not to have this happen again.

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I am away from the city this weekend, so I did not get to do any “blog chores” this weekend. I will have a long stretch next weekend and an even longer stretch in about three months or so. Until then…

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A while back, I came across an art project that put a translucent grid over public LCD monitors in New York. I was very attracted to the constantly changing abstract grid of colors - the whole idea was very clever and well-executed. Soon afterward, I thought it would be a fun experiment (albeit much less cool) to do the same thing in Flash with video. A few hours later, I had made a pretty cool system for sampling and averaging colors within a specified area. The final code was quite flexible - allowing for some very interesting representations. Below is the most simple form - I will be tidying up the code, converting it to AS3 and do a much more thorough writeup on it. Still, I thought it would be fun to show off the preliminary version.

The SWF below has a video to the left and its sampled grid to the right. Just press the play button and enjoy.

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I have been working on a project that requires a gradient background to shift colors dynamically. I usually am not too big of a fan of gradients in general, so I had never spent too much time with them in Flash. After a few minutes of reading through other people's experiences however, I found it to be quite easy.

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