Re-Painting Pixels with Actionscript 3

In this little experiment I am reading in all of the pixel values from the image of the strawberries below using the BitmapData class. I then attach a MovieClip and color it to match the pixel value. This is animated over time to give off a nice effect. Each time it runs through I am choosing a random scale value for the MovieClips. It’s fun to watch this thing run for a while to see the different patterns that it makes. Click on the image below to check it out.

[as]var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(tucc.width, tucc.height);

bmd.draw(tucc);

var xc:int = 1;

var yc:int = 0;

var scale:Number = Math.random()*10;

var t:Timer = new Timer(1);

t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, drawIt);

t.start();

var rots:Array = [90,270,180];

var rotCount = 0;

var cont:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

this.addChild(cont);

function drawIt(e:TimerEvent):void

{

var d:dot = new dot();

var colorTransform:ColorTransform = d.transform.colorTransform;

colorTransform.color = bmd.getPixel(xc, yc);

d.transform.colorTransform = colorTransform;

cont.addChild(d);

/*var am:Number = Math.random();

if(am<0.25) d.rotation = rots[0];

if(am<0.50 && am>0.25) d.rotation = rots[1];

if(am<0.75 && am>0.50) d.rotation = rots[2];*/

d.rotation = rots[rotCount];

if(rotCount == 2) rotCount = 0;

else rotCount++;

d.scaleX = d.scaleY = scale;

d.x = xc*2-10;

d.y = yc*2+20;

if(xc >= 500 && yc >= 333)

{

trace(“in”);

t.stop();

clearIt();

}

else if(xc >= 500)

{

xc = 0;

yc += 15;

}

xc += 15;

}

function clearIt():void

{

this.removeChild(cont);

cont = new MovieClip();

this.addChild(cont);

xc = 0;

yc = 0;

scale = Math.random()*8;

t.start();

}[/as]