Actionscript 3 Color Sampler Class

Actionscript Color Sampler

Yesterday, I published a video visualization experiment that used a color sampling engine to drive realtime data-driven abstractions of a video. I promised that I would release the color sampling class with some documentation and an example. Well, I was fortunately enough to have a chunk of time to do just that.

The color sampling class has been documented and gone through an optimization pass. Depending on the implementation of the sampler, performance can begin to get relatively shaky. Nonetheless, the video sampling was able to sample and spit out results at a fairly impressive pace.

Download the Actionscript 3 color sampler class (Licensed under the GNU Public License).

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7 Comments on “Actionscript 3 Color Sampler Class”

Dood!! thats sick!.
You should make it into an art collection and submit it to MOMA’s around the US.
I really dig the concept. Its very abstract. Me likey.

Great stuff. Anyway i can see this baby in action?


Umm yea.. I’m a dork. I already downloaded it.



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