Last week, I showcased an idea of Flash layout organizers (source code is coming), that acts loosely the same as Flex containers. I have already started to use this basic idea and it has so far worked out very nicely for me. After posting my little experiment, I instantly thought of mashing up the layout organizer experiment with the Flash video sampler experiment I did a couple months back. The current example of bringing the two together is overly simplistic to better give the idea of what is happening, but I can already see tremendous potential for fun with this technique.
This technique extensively uses the copyPixels method and the performance is much better than I honestly expected. The current example’s video is broken up into 225 individual boxes, each bitmaps pulling from the video every 40 milliseconds. That is a lot of computations. I wanted to drop this relatively sophomoric example out there to clearly show what this technique does – hopefully this week or next I will be able to have a little more fun with this and push the visual/interactive aspects.
