actionscript microcosmos

Delaunay Image Processor.

frank reitberger — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:34 +0000

Currently I´m writing a few image processors in AS3. Initially I`ve implemented a Delaunay triangulation that works quiet fine and performat (by having ~25 FPS constantly).

Launch.

In so doing, the clue was, to read in the colour values of the source image and allocate some randomized anchor points. After that I initialize the triangulation related to the xy-position and fill up every triangle with the reference colour for each point we have located before.

Launch.

The whole thing should be customizable as transition between images, so I added some animated tweens to my Delaunay processor. So now you can change the images by clicking right on them (wait awhile ´cause during the transitions I disabled the button-Click features). Enough talk, here you can check the current release.

Up next, I will concern myself with scripting a Voronoi diagram based image processor. As to that, there are some very nice implementations (made with processing) out there already, for instance this one, so let´s see if we can stick with those examples in AS3.

Visual adrenaline.

frank reitberger — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:45:31 +0000

A few weeks ago I interviewed Rebekka Gudleifsdottir for “Create or die“, and this time you can read the article in English too. Her intense photographs and self-portraits class among my all time favorites.

As I first stumbled upon her photos on Flickr, I was unaware that Rebekka is already well known for her projects.

Rebekka really has lots of agreeable attitudes, has a straight-line and bracing work ethic and it seems that she´s constantly working on new ideas and projects.

Curious? Here you go.

Recently at anyMotion.

frank reitberger — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:51:18 +0000

Last weekend we arranged a little WII Mario Kart tournament at anyMOTION (the agency I work for). Kinda barmy, even though you can do lot´s of better things in the summer, but it was great fun anyway! (If you don´t take it to seriously)

You can get some unforgettable impressions here.

Fluffy.

frank reitberger — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:18:19 +0000

Finally I got some time for a few more studies with computed compounds. Thereby I focussed on creating kind of fluffy patterns.

Launch.

So “fluffyPerlin” was my first attempt, trying to compile a pattern that is running smoothly performant by having a constant framerate greater than 29FPS (400×400 pixel swf-size).

In my second attempt I took that pattern and used it smaller sized as filling (the result looks a bit like a spacey marble). Based on that a versicoloured haze is formed.

Launch.

Although “marbleWhisk” has quite a lot more bitmap manipulations as it´s ancestor, it runs by having a framerate > 20FPS constantly (400×400 sized swf) on my PC.

So that´s it for now, even if many more results are conceivable with that approach.

Interviewed Quasimondo.

frank reitberger — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:01:27 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed Mario Klingemann for “create or die“. Now, finally it´s online, and I think it turns out to be a quiet interesting lecture.

I´m sorry to say that the article is written in German, so if that´s not an issue - here you go.

Sylt.

frank reitberger — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:49:04 +0000

I´m back from vacation… back from Sylt and even if it was very relaxing, it seems that there will be a few major private changes for me in the near future (I will refer on that later on).

For now, you can receive an impression of the island Sylt if you want, by watching this photostream I´ve taken there.

On leave.

frank reitberger — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:54:01 +0000

To put it in a nutshell, I´m on vacation for the next 20 days now to calm down my demons a bit, so don´t expect anything new here inside this time interval.

See you.

3d blobs.

frank reitberger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:00:55 +0000

3d blobs is a quick dump from a recent project I´m working on, just to test the performance (fps). Once again I´m using away3d as substructure and putting some of my snippets over it.

Launch.

So for now, I´m up to ~54fps by rendering 50 blobs at the same time within a dimension of 800×600 pixels.

Still enhacing…

Lumen.

frank reitberger — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:02:18 +0000

A while ago I started coding this snippet playing with luminous flux and stayed on patching several functions or adding filters. For now, I decided to stop that process for the moment and just release the current result as it is.

Launch

Lumen bundles trails and arranges their luminous intensity. As I said before, there are many sections in the script that are waiting to be optimized, so don´t pick it to pieces too much, and let me warn you, because this release is not optimized to be processor friendly at all.

Fisheye.

frank reitberger — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:40:31 +0000

And another Pixel Bender/-Astro snippet yet… called “Fisheye“. This tiny bit of code generates a little fisheye-filter.

Launch. || Sources. (flash player 10 needed!)

“Oh man…”, look what this filter is doing to my face (much prettier than before *Uh?*)

Enjoy.