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A while back, I posted a basic example of layout organizers and layout organizers applied to video. I kept talking about how cool I considered this idea to be, yet I had yet to truly explain the idea and (more importantly) the source code for people to download. I wanted to make sure the code was at a good spot before releasing it; I believe that is now the case. You will find examples, the basic gist on how it works and some possible reasons why layout organizers may just make your life easier. (more...)actionscript, actionscript 3, displayobject, experiment, flash, flex, front end, layout, layout organizers, programming ui

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...

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I usually do not post YouTube videos on Some Random Dude, but this definitely warranted an exception. I am unsure of the method towards this effect, but it is one of the creepiest, yet visually stunning treatments to video I have seen since those video sequences The Matrix made famous (and subsequently ran into the ground). This is well worth a view… Not to mention a second.

Hey Stumblers, thanks for coming on by. If you liked this article, you might like two video projects I did here and here.design, displacement, experiment, matrix, motion, motion experiment, time, video, video sequences youtube

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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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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