A while back, I posted a basic example of layout organizers and layout organizers applied to video. I kept talking about how cool I considered this idea to be, yet I had yet to truly explain the idea and (more importantly) the source code for people to download. I wanted to make sure the code was at a good spot before releasing it; I believe that is now the case. You will find examples, the basic gist on how it works and some possible reasons why layout organizers may just make your life easier.
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I usually do not post YouTube videos on Some Random Dude, but this definitely warranted an exception. I am unsure of the method towards this effect, but it is one of the creepiest, yet visually stunning treatments to video I have seen since those video sequences The Matrix made famous (and subsequently ran into the ground). This is well worth a view… Not to mention a second.
Hey Stumblers, thanks for coming on by. If you liked this article, you might like two video projects I did here and here.
A while back I published a small Actionscript experiment that sampled colors of video and displayed a matrix of the sampled colors it retrieved. I mentioned that I would be posting a follow-up once I ported all the code to Actionscript 3 and was able to do some interesting experiments with this technique. The current color sampler can give you the rgb code, red channel, green channel, blue channel, hue, saturation and brightness. It took a bit of time, but I have made five different motion treatments generated from my color sampling engine. The port of the color sampler class to Actionscript 3 made a significant difference in terms of performance and offered many more possibilities to what I could attempt. These five experiments are really just scratching the surface of what can be done with this technique - I have already thought of 3 or 4 different methods I would like to create.
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I have been working on a project that requires a gradient background to shift colors dynamically. I usually am not too big of a fan of gradients in general, so I had never spent too much time with them in Flash. After a few minutes of reading through other people’s experiences however, I found it to be quite easy.
Lately, I have been devoting significant time into a daily blogging schedule. This has definitely taken an increased amount of discipline, but the results have been staggering. The increase in writing has led to a decrease in participation in discussions on the site - something I am going to try to reverse in the future. I much rather post slightly less and participate more if it really comes down to it.
This whole blog thing started that out as a bit of an experiment has become a daily fixture. Some people go hiking, others shop, I blog. One of the things I am going to move towards is increased sharing of information and allow more engagement from readers. I thought it would be interesting for some of you to be able to have access to the site’s traffic statistics. As many of you well know, I am absolutely fascinated with web statistics and the patterns/trends they can show. Traffic statistics seems to be this both coveted and highly secret object - I thought it would be interesting to open it up for everyone to see. If you are a web publisher/blogger and you do in fact have your statistics open, please drop a comment and let me know. If would be interesting to see how many folks have open up their numbers and who they are.
In the next six months, my goal is to increase this site’s traffic by another 30%. This may seem a bit arbitrary, but if this traffic increase continues, I think some interesting possibilities could begin to open up. I think it would be interesting to allow readers to see for themselves if this goal is achieved and to follow its progress.
My goal is to make this site as open and transparent as possible. This is obviously a very small and relatively inconsequential piece of that puzzle, but nonetheless an interesting one. So, please, go ahead and look under the hood. Be my guest.
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Highlighted Content
- More Layout Organizers Developed
- Done For the Holidays
- AS3 Layout Organizers Applied to Video
- A Preview of 3d Layout Organizers
- Actionscript 3 Layout Organizers Examples
- CASA Lib: An Open Source Code Library for ActionScript 2.0 & 3.0
- Actionscript 3 Layout Organizers
- gskinner.com: gBlog: Source Code: Seeded Random in ActionScript 3
- Damn You Flash Player 9.0.115.0
- Progress on the Layout Organizers Library
- Wonderfl - Online Actionscript builder and code base
- My Projects Will Be Back Soon
- Daily Delicious - Video in Actionscript 3
- somerandomdude: Had a lot of fun working on 3d layout organizers la...
- O3D API - Google Code
- The 25-Line ActionScript Contest
- Daily Digg: Papervision (a Flash 3d engine) is going to be released...
- Actionscript 3 Video Color Sampler Experiment
- Papervision 3d Public Beta Announced
- Processing Motion Experiment - Meander
