Jakob Külzer Ninja Coding Monkey goes Canada

Playing with AS3 Low Level Graphics

I've been toying around with the low level graphics API after seeing Ralph Hauwerts awesome presentation at the FITC. (I'm still waiting for my tshirt though). He demoed an application using particles doing all those fancy things and I wanted to try that myself. I'm still working on it and it's not as cool as Ralph's demo, but my first experiments turned out to look kinda cool too. Enjoy.

In the first SWF I just tried to get the basic code working, randomly moving particles, multiple colors and a nice blur effect. Looks cool, but turns black as the blur effect sums up (reload if its black already):

My next attempt is better. I used a ColorTransform to slowly increase the color values which gives this nice animation:

Amazing what can be done in an hour of playing around with Flash's drawing API and bitmap manipulation.