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Not too long ago, I posted a Flash experiment where I sampled video color data to create real-time visualizations (by the way, feel free to download the base code). I have yet to really spend time on the visual treatment of this technique - instead playing with more technical aspects to expand the potential of what can be done creatively. I am truly looking forward to experiment in more interesting visual/motion treatments, but first things first...

Yesterday, I published a video visualization experiment that used a color sampling engine to drive realtime data-driven abstractions of a video. I promised that I would release the color sampling class with some documentation and an example. Well, I was fortunately enough to have a chunk of time to do just that.

The color sampling class has been documented and gone through an optimization pass. Depending on the implementation of the sampler, performance can begin to get relatively shaky. Nonetheless, the video sampling was able to sample and spit out results at a fairly impressive pace.

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A while back I published a small Actionscript experiment that sampled colors of video and displayed a matrix of the sampled colors it retrieved. I mentioned that I would be posting a follow-up once I ported all the code to Actionscript 3 and was able to do some interesting experiments with this technique. The current color sampler can give you the rgb code, red channel, green channel, blue channel, hue, saturation and brightness. It took a bit of time, but I have made five different motion treatments generated from my color sampling engine. The port of the color sampler class to Actionscript 3 made a significant difference in terms of performance and offered many more possibilities to what I could attempt. These five experiments are really just scratching the surface of what can be done with this technique - I have already thought of 3 or 4 different methods I would like to create.
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