Tag Archives: BitmapData

Generative Visuals

By Lex | Published: January 17, 2010
In the last few months I’ve played with creating a number of generative visuals or generative visual interactives. This entails building a Flash application that contains a number of randomized visual creations but also allows me to have control over color, composition, and some drawing aspects. I’ve spread a few of these visuals around and [...]
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Salt & Pepper Utilizing BitmapData.fillRect();

By Lex | Published: January 14, 2010
This movie requires Flash Player 10 swfobject.embedSWF("/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bitmapData_fillRect_animation.swf", "swf3e9d1", "500", "448", "10.0.0", "", {}, {wmode: "window", menu: "false", quality: "high", bgcolor: "#000000"}, {}); I’ve had some time to experiment more with BitmapData and specifically the fillRect(); method. I hope to utilize some of this soon when creating a new site for myself. Below is another example showing how [...]
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Adding Graphics Within A Predefined Unique Boundary

By Lex | Published: July 25, 2009
I came across a forum post of someone attempting to add graphics within, and only within a uniquely shaped boundary. There are numerous ways to achieve this visual effect in flash. One, you could add items to a shape and use a blending mode to allow only those shapes that appear over the parent object [...]
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