My first completed experiment!!

[Jubba]

Ok, well first I would like to thank LostinBeta for his help in optimizing my Flash code.

Next here is a link to the file: http://www.bluefinatlantic.com/egTest/imageFunc/imageFunc.php

Warning: May be processor intensive on slower machines. Be careful!

Click on the image and move the pixels around. You can see that you are actually taking the image apart pixel by pixel.

What is happening in the file:

A php script reads the image file. It gets the color of every pixel in the .jpg and then sends the color information to Flash. Flash then attaches movieclips and sets their color to that of the cooresponding pixel in the .jpg file.


here is a link to the JPG file: http://www.bluefinatlantic.com/egTest/imageFunc/avatar.jpg

I was pretty happy with this. Its the first successful experiment that I have ever completed (i usually lose focus after about 3 hours) but this one only took about 2.5 hours so thats why I actually finished it.

The next stop is to allow people to upload their own images and do some sort of effect with them. :)

Source files are on next page.

[ahmed]

THAT IS **** AWESOME!!

wish this was MY experiment.. i LOVE it... very smart! :beam:

[telekinesis]

Holy crap, that is awesome jubba, the script had to be some hardcore stuff!

Great job, can't wait to see the version where you can upload your own image!

:thumb: :thumb: <<<< Two thumbs up!

[Kitiara]

Wow, that's fantastic Jubba. :)

[Jubba]

thanks. I'm glad you all like it. :) I'm happy with it as well. I am hoping I will have time to finish the next version tomorrow or the day after. I'll post once its finished. :)

[eyeinfinitude]

I got to see it before he posted it here on the forum. :love: Nice job, Jubba. =)

[asphaltcowboy]

teehee! *zooms in and makes Jubba all spotty* :beam:

lol, really nice work. I wish I could do something like that. In fact.. I wish I actually knew some ActionScript. My knowledge extends to play, stop, gotoandplay, gotoandstop lol ;)

:thumb:

[Kitiara]

Out of curiosity Jubba, just how complex a picture can this cope with? :)

[pom]

That's very nice :) It reminds me of something Bit did some time ago, did you check it? It was pretty spectacular too!

[andr.in]

wow man! This is awesome! How many lines are there in this php script? I wish I could do that! Next you could figure out a way to make the pixels that are dragged out disappear (I mean from the pic so that it leaves a white spot). ...ummm... nevermind It's actually no problem if you make it get the x and y pos of the mouse when it's clicked copy a white pixel there... nevermind...

Cool effect man!

Who/How did you came up with the idea anyway?

[thoriphes]

Spectacular! I didn't know you could do that with PHP. How did you send the information to flash?

[Alex]

Wow, Great job jubba!!!!

[Jubba]

Originally posted by Ilyas
That's very nice :) It reminds me of something Bit did some time ago, did you check it? It was pretty spectacular too!

Pom: Really? I'll have to check that out!

Syko: Actuallly, you could just set its _visible to 0 when you click on it. Much easier :);)

Thor: I'll attach the files in a few minutes.

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by electrongeek
I got to see it before he posted it here on the forum. :love: Nice job, Jubba. =)

Me too :love:




That's great Jubba, no more Unresponsive AS errors!!!! It definitely runs a lot smoother now. And if I can say that on my PC, you know it's true ;)

:a+: Cognrats!

[Jubba]

yeah, thanks for the help with optimizing that code. I think I finally understand setInterval now ;)

oh, and Syko: I'm not really sure how I came up with the idea. I just new there was a huge list of image functions in PHP and I searched around until I found one that picked out the colors of pixels. Then I was like, "oh, well I do a loop here, and read the variables, and voila!" ;)

[lostinbeta]

If you want me to explain setInterval to you later I can definitely do that :)

[Jubba]

Here are the updated files!

[lostinbeta]

:thumb: cool.

[Jubba]

Originally posted by Kitiara
Out of curiosity Jubba, just how complex a picture can this cope with? :)

Well, since it is just reading the color at each pixel and then The flash displays it pixel by pixel, in theory it can deal with any complexity of imagery ;)

I'm not sure how processor intensive something larger will be. Well, we're going to find out eventually huh? I'll get working on the new version after I eat breakfast. :)

[pom]

Originally posted by Jubba
"oh, well I do a loop here, and read the variables, and viola!"Err... it's "voila" :P You don't want to know what "viola" means... :evil:

[Jubba]

I don't know what you're talking about! :P

:):):)

[ahmed]

can you make a dragging effect similar to the one on bit-101's Sept. 12, 2002 expriment? :)

[Jubba]

well, I'm sure it would be possible, but could you imagine 2500 pixels all having their own onEnterFrame command? Processors would die.

I wanted to do an explosion type thing, but Lost pointed out to me the drastic consequences of such a thing. His computer would jump out the window..

[ahmed]

lol :P true... great experiment nonetheless :)

[Jubba]

thanks, I enjoyed making it. Maybe i'll be able to find a way to get something cool like that to work... :)

[Digitalosophy]

nice job jubba

[hojo]

cool

[Kitiara]

Hmmm, wonder how well it would cope with a larger line art piece maybe? :) Or are we in exploding computer territory there? :P

[Jubba]

i'm sure it could handle it, but it would take longer for Flash to display it. :)

[Niann]

Very nice! It ran smooth on the 550MHz machine on my desk at work. =)

Cheers!
-Niann

[andr.in]

<i>Originally suggested by Jubba:</i>
Syko: Actuallly, you could just set its _visible to 0 when you click on it. Much easier

... like I said... Jubba always knows the easiest way!

Very cool experiment!

[ahmed]

did anyone here ever use MING library? you can create an swf with probably the very same effect, but it would all be programmed with php from scratch..

I wanted to try it but it needed some server config, so i didn't bother :nerd:

[Jubba]

hmmmm MING is enabled on my server... I'll have to look into that...

if it works I can let you have some space on my server to test it out. :)

[Jubba]

HOLY CRAP! It works on my server!

http://www.bluefinatlantic.com/egTest/swfFunc/swfTest.php

that Flash file was create completely with PHP! w00t!

its not my code, I got it from the manual but dam thats awesome!

[ahmed]

that IS awesome..

thanks a lot, i will let you know whenever i come up with something ;)

seems like something new for you to master :P

[Jubba]

well if you want I can create a place for you to upload your own files to my server... that way you wouldn't need me to upload stuff for you or whatever... let me know. :)

[thoriphes]

jub, that link crashed my IE :-\

[Jubba]

really?! huh... thats weird... works fine for me in IE, avant, and net.

Since its a php thing, the browser shouldn't affect it. I wonder why it did that...

[thoriphes]

just tried it again, same thing. it might be on my end.

[ahmed]

worked fine on my side :)

jubs-
currently im working on a few projects that are taking up most of my time, but in a month or so, i might start experimenting with MING, i will you let you know then =)

[Jubba]

awesome. I'll be here! :)

[thoriphes]

it was probably my .NET installation. dammit microsoft, can't you get anything right?

[Jubba]

no, I don't think so... :P

[ahmed]

Originally posted by Jubba
no, I don't think so... :P lol :beam:

[javadi82]

experiment doesn't work?

the pixels in the white background are not visible when they are dragged onto the image.is this a feature of the experiment or am i experiencing an anamoly?

susheel.j

[DigitalPimp]

that is incredible DUDE!!! Good job!! I hope be as good as you guys 1 day!

[mdipi]

yeah jubba. your PHP to Flash integration never ceases to amaze me!

[senocular]

wow, Im a little late on seeing this! Very cool :) good work!

This really doesnt apply so much here, because you're adding points pixel by pixel, but you can increase performance in adding a lot of attached clips if you add them in groups within empty movieclips since Flash starts chugging in the more clips you add in any one scope. For example, if with every column you added those pixels in their own movieclip you could spit later clips out faster.

Heres something I did a while ago showing that - this adds pixels row by row. One adds them all in the main timeline, and the other adds each row to its own movieclip.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/test/asciislow.swf
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/test/asciifast.swf
These are based on ASCII images, not bitmaps though ;) (and yes thats me =) ... :P ) but you can really see the difference in speed between the two.

[mdipi]

so we finaly see who this coding genus is...a guy with his tounge out :P

those aer pretty cool too. but with jubba's wouldnt it be a bit hard because they arent all the same colour...or even b&w.

[senocular]

the color really doesnt matter, thats all parsed before attaching. but also, Im not saying Jubba's needs it. I think its great the way it is - pixel by pixel works for the experiment because it adds a kind of destructive-reconstructive aspect to the process involved in making it. This is just something Id figure Id throw out there since it can be an issue to deal with when messing around with a lot of attached pixels or clips of any kind.

[fluid_0ne]

:thumb: :geek:
incredible...

[lostinbeta]

Sen: Jubba and I worked for quite a bit on getting that thing to run without crashing a system (just to note, jubba did this whole thing himself, him and I just worked together on getting it to run without it crashing the flash plugin) ... and I hadn't even thought about doing it that way... it makes total sense too!!!!!

ARGH!!!!

hehe... smart guy you...

[Mik3]

MUHAHAH IM PULLING JUBBA APART!