Perlin noise? What is that? Well, if you are using PhotoShop, you should know the ‘clouds’-effect. That is Perlin noise. You could used it with Actionscript too.
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We should use Perlin noise more as random factor, but what could we do with Perlin noise?

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.

I created an example of how to get it work. The image will be save in the same directory as your AIR application.

Click the read-more button to find out how to create a cool AS3 wallpaper.

The ImageSaver Class is updated.

Download
» ImageSaver (latest)

Fixed:
– You can use a bitmapdata as input too. First you only could use a displayObject, but I believe it’s better to use an IBitmapDrawable (interface).
– Bug quality JPG
– Added optional rect

My ImageSaver() Class is ready for download.

Download
» ImageSaver v1.0

Features

• Save a MovieClip, Sprite, Shape, Bitmap, Textfield or other kinds of displayObjects.
• It doesn’t matter where or how your object is positioned on the stage, it gets the right bounds.
• Never worry about bytearray’s / encoding anymore.
• Save your displayobject as JPG or PNG (using Adobe’s encoders)
• Ready-to-install PHP file.

This is how I create a grayscale color in actionscript 3.