After writing this post of using perlin noise, I’ll did some more experiments making cool things. I draw lines using Perlin noise as input. Check this out:
I was also experimenting/figuring out how to convert a actionscript generated movie to video. I never knew it was possible (or that easy) with the Flash CS3 (maybe because I never tried). Just choose file > export movie > and choose .mov extension. The video isn’t smooth, because (when I save it) it is not really rendering, it’s just like an invisible screencapture, I guess. So I can’t use more heavy CPU things. Thats a pity.
But maybe I could use my ImageSaver Class to create a movie-sequence by saving frame by frame as PNG.
I’m experimenting with AIR, because I heard saving a ByteArray ( for example encoded PNG or JPG ) should be quite simple. You don’t need PHP or another serverside script for this, just write directly on you disk. Well, just check it out.
See this example of how to get it work. The image will be save on the same directory as your AIR application.
// use adobe’s encoder to create a byteArray var jpgEncoder:JPGEncoder = new JPGEncoder(60); var byteArray:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode( bitmapData );
// set an filename var filename:String = "cool-image.jpg";
// get current path var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath( filename );
// get the native path var wr:File = new File( file.nativePath);
// create filestream var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
// open/create the file, set the filemode to write in order to save. stream.open( wr , FileMode.WRITE);
// write your byteArray into the file. stream.writeBytes( byteArray, 0, byteArray.length);
// close the file. stream.close();
// That’s it.
Is that it? This would be a boring post if I stopped right now I experimented to create a colorful cool wallpaper using AS3 only and save it using AIR. If you don’t got AIR or just don’t want to use it, I recommend using my ImageSave class.
This is my code to create this wallpaper: Feel free to play with the code, but post a link to your experiment / wallpaper here.
publicclass Main extendsSprite { publicfunction Main():void { var bitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData (1280, 1024, false, 0×000000 );
// create colorful radial lines var shape:Shape = new Shape(); shape.graphics.moveTo((bitmapData.width/2), (bitmapData.height/2)) for(var i:Number = 0; i < 1900; i++) { // create some weird colors using sinus shape.graphics.lineStyle(30, (Math.sin( i * 9) * i / 200) * 0xffffff, 0.4); // do some weird sin/cos moves shape.graphics.lineTo((bitmapData.width/2) + (Math.sin( i/3)*i/2), (bitmapData.height/2) + (Math.cos( i/3)*i/2)); } // add it multiple times using other blendmodes, isn’t that what we do all the time in PhotoShop? bitmapData.draw( shape, null, null, BlendMode.NORMAL); bitmapData.draw( shape, null, null, BlendMode.ADD); bitmapData.draw( shape, null, null, BlendMode.MULTIPLY); bitmapData.draw( shape, null, null, BlendMode.OVERLAY); // cool! filters! Add some blur to our lines to make a nice blurry background bitmapData.applyFilter( bitmapData, bitmapData.rect, new Point() , new BlurFilter(40, 40, 5));
// create colorful radial lines var anotherShape:Shape = new Shape(); anotherShape.graphics.moveTo((bitmapData.width/2), (bitmapData.height/2)); for(var j:Number = 0; j < 1900; j++) { // create some weird lines with weird sizes var lineWidth:Number = 50 – ((j / 50) >> 0); varcolor:Number = (Math.sin( j ) * j / 200) * 0xFFFFFF anotherShape.graphics.lineStyle( lineWidth, color, 0.2, false, LineScaleMode.NORMAL, CapsStyle.SQUARE, JointStyle.MITER); anotherShape.graphics.lineTo((bitmapData.width/2) + (Math.sin( j/3)*j/2), (bitmapData.height/2) + (Math.cos( j/4)*j/2)); } // cool! filters! Add some blur to our lines to make a little blurry bitmapData.applyFilter( bitmapData, bitmapData.rect, new Point() , new BlurFilter(5, 5, 5)); // blendmode ADD is awesome bitmapData.draw( anotherShape, null, null, BlendMode.OVERLAY);
// create some text vartextfield:TextField = newTextField(); textfield.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.NORMAL; textfield.htmlText = "<font face=’Arial’ color=’#FFFFFF’ size=’60′>FUN WITH BITMAPDATA</font> <br/> <font face=’verdana’ color=’#FFFFFF’ size=’20′><B>CREATE YOUR OWN WALLPAPER WITH FLASH</b></font>"; textfield.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
// cool! filters! Add blur to your text textfield.filters = [new BlurFilter(20,20,3)]
// draw textfield into bitmapdata, and use a matrix to set its position to center screen bitmapData.draw(textfield, new Matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, (bitmapData.width/2) – (textfield.textWidth/2) ,(bitmapData.height/2) – (textfield.textHeight/2)), null, BlendMode.ADD);
// reset the filters, just add DropShadow textfield.filters = [new DropShadowFilter(0, 45, 0, 0.3, 5, 5, 2, 5)]
// draw textfield again bitmapData.draw(textfield, new Matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, (bitmapData.width/2) – (textfield.textWidth/2) ,(bitmapData.height/2) – (textfield.textHeight/2)));
// show the bitmapData, just add it to the stage, using the Bitmap Class this.addChild(new Bitmap ( bitmapData ))
// use adobe’s encoder to create a byteArray var jpgEncoder:JPGEncoder = new JPGEncoder(60); var byteArray:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode( bitmapData );
// set an filename var filename:String = "cool-wallpaper.jpg";
// get current path var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath( filename );
// get the native path var wr:File = new File( file.nativePath);
// create filestream var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
// open/create the file, set the filemode to write; because we are going to save stream.open( wr , FileMode.WRITE);
// write your byteArray into the file. stream.writeBytes( byteArray, 0, byteArray.length);
Michael Hoskins: Wow, this is one of those "why have I not done this myself?" things. I do this same action numerous times throughout the day. I use actions all the
sebo: Hi, this sounds very useful, i am also doing this many times each day. But the link to the action seems broken - could you have a look at that? Thanks
ramel: Ok got it too a look at the as file. the displayObject is the first method in the function not the last. This is a great little script very cool.
ramel: Oh add I'm trying to copy a portions of the stage.
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