Last time, the results of simulating smoke were a bit instable and the visual result was a bit bland. Since then, I’ve been irked constantly by spotting smoke everywhere in the – real – world. And sadly, I have to admit I’m a smoker, so there’s no escape from that! :D So back to research!…
Aw man, Mr. Doob went ahead and made me all stoked about Pixel Bender again (and there goes my patience, curse your leet hide!). I went back to the parallax mapping effect from my last post to see if I could make it work more correctly in Pixel Bender (using the steep parallax algorithm). And…
Time for another simple oldschool demo effect as an excuse to mess around with Pixel Bender :) So just like before, you need Player 10 if you’re interested in seeing the result. I only provided the swf this time, so if you don’t have it yet, grab the standalone player here and check the preview.…
Well, I suppose it couldn’t wait much longer… I just had to get my hands on Pixel Bender and do some tryouts. Initially, I set out to make a simple Mandelbrot set, which was pretty darn speedy in the Toolkit. However, once I turned on the Flash error checks, a few disappointments smacked me in…