Here’s just a quick post that’s nothing to do with ActionScript, nothing to do with Brightcove, but to let anyone in the Boston/Worcester/Providence area that I will be performing next month, along with my wife, in Blithe Spirit in Worcester at WCLOC. I was an actor in a past life and have been getting active [...]

I just wanted to quickly document several issues I’ve had so far when developing with Pixel Bender in case anyone else runs into similar issues.
Reapplying an altered shader as a blend mode does not update a display object. The blend modes I was working with all had a percent parameter. If I changed the percent, [...]

In my ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects book I have a chapter in which I discuss Pixel Bender and demonstrate how to create a blending mode for the Flash Player. I also suggest the possibility of rewriting the standard Flash Player blend modes so that a percent parameter might be supported, as you find in Photoshop. [...]