Image Distortion in Flash

[guywhite]

Hi.

I have been struggling in Flash to find out if advanced bitmap distortion is possible in flash. I am talking about the same distortion effects that Photoshop generates by going to Filter > distort menu. Especially the spherize, Wave and Twirl effects. All I know for now is that displacement map filter introduced in Flash 8 or 9 has this capability.

So I want to imitate Photoshop in Flash so that when I have an image in Flash the user would feel like he's using Photoshop filters and twirling or spherizing the image.

[TomMalufe]

The DisplacementMapFilter is deffinitly the place to look. That's what I used in this experiment http://www.paulschoneveld.com/2009/04/water-effect-in-actionscript-3.html

[TomMalufe]

Oh yeah, and you might like to look into the PerlinNoise function for BitmapData objects to give you a little randomness in your filters.

[guywhite]

Thanks man,

I have seen your filter effect, looks gr8, but is there anyway that we could make this distortion permanent. I haven't experimented much but tried to search for any sample in which image is permanently changed in to another form. Couldn't find a single one.

By the way your portfolio is impressive.

[TomMalufe]

The only reason my distortion isn't perminant is because I re-apply it every frame.

I would post a sample of my code from that project, but I'm on my work computer right now and those files are at home.

Try watching this video for some ideas http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=63

[guywhite]

That was a kind of example that I was looking for. I need to build on this example to make my own version. The following link shows some stretch effect.

http://www.elctech.com/snippets/actionscript-photo-liquify-smear-distort-with-displacementmapfilter