Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects

CONTENTS AT A GLANCE

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWERS

ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE DESIGNER

INTRODUCTION

Intended audience

Development environment

Code comments

Layout conventions

THE DRAWING API

A brief history of the drawing API

What’s come before

And in with the new

Summary

FILTERS AND BLEND MODES

Applying blend modes

Using filters

Summary

BITMAPS AND BITMAPDATA

Understanding bitmaps in ActionScript

Loading, creating, and displaying bitmaps

Accessing and manipulating colors

Summary

ADVANCED BITMAP MANIPULATION

Adding Pixel Randomization

Applying filters to BitmapData

Performing channel operations

Summary

PIXEL BENDER AND SHADERS

Understanding shaders

Working with the Pixel Bender Toolkit

Using shaders in the Flash Player

Bending pixels

Enabling new blend modes

Drawing with shaders

Performing heavy processing

Summary

ACTIONSCRIPT IN THE THIRD DIMENSION

Displaying objects with depth

Transforming objects

Drawing with bitmaps

Summary

USING AN ANIMATION AND EFFECTS LIBRARY

Introducing aeon animation

Introducing aether effects

Summary

ELEMENTAL ANIMATION EFFECTS

Playing with fire

Turning to stone

Waving the flag

Bringing rain

Summary

TEXT EFFECTS

Distressing text

Creating custom bevels

Building a text animation engine

Summary

VIDEO EFFECTS

Applying runtime filters

Isolating colors for effect

Summary

SOUND VISUALIZATION EFFECTS

Loading and playing sound

Visualizing sound data

Summary

INTERACTIVE EFFECTS

Using image and mouse input

Using webcam and keyboard input

Summary

DEVELOPING WITHIN FLASH AND FLEX

BUILDER

Working in Flash CS4

Working in Flex Builder 3

INDEX