Andrew Trice

Monday January 28, 2008

Fun with masks

No I don't mean any kind mask that involves a costume... I mean graphics masks. Here's an example of what you can do with images or video, using standard flex components as masks. You can create some really cool interfaces, and charts like nobody else has ever seen before. Definitely some fun stuff.

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You can check out a test project, with full source here:

Demo: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/blogs/andrew.trice/masks/masks.html
Source: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/blogs/andrew.trice/masks/srcview/index.html

And a writeup on InsideRIA about thec concepts involoved here:

http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/flex-graphics-tricks-part-1-ma.html

Enjoy!


Disclaimer: This video clip is publicly available at Google video. This is a scene from the surfing movie Billabong Odyssey, which is a great movie (that I do personally own). I highly reccommend it.