Questions tagged [pixel-bender]

Adobe Pixel Bender is a programing language for the description of image processing algorithms.

Pixel Bender is a programming language created by Adobe Systems for the description of image processing algorithms. The syntax is based on GLSL, and a Pixel Bender program is analogous to an OpenGL fragment shader, and is intended to be a loosely typed version of C++.

For more info see Pixel Bender Technology Center.

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Flex Pixel Blender Performance

I remember seeing some articles about using Pixel Blender to speed up performance on heavy computation, but i cant find them anymore. Can anyone suggest an article on this?
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Color Matrix VS PixelBender

Whats the difference between these two? They seem to both do the same thing not to mention both applied to the bitmap through applyFilter().
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Save ByteArray generated by Pixel Bender

I am building a Flash Application which will allow a user to mix two mp3 files and send the mixed result to our server. Using Pixel Bender I am already able to create a mix: public class Mixer { [Embed(source="mix.pbj",…
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Anyone Know of a company that sells pixel bender filters?

Anyone Know of a company that sells pixel bender filters?
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help converting this as3 code to pixel bender code

I'm looking for some help converting as3 code to pixelbender code in an attempt to improve the performance of my application. This as3 code goes as follows. I scan through the Number values of a bytearray in chunks. Lets say this chunk lenght was…
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AS3: How to access pixel data efficiently?

I'm working a game. The game requires entities to analyse an image and head towards pixels with specific properties (high red channel, etc.) I've looked into Pixel Bender, but this only seems useful for writing new colors to the image. At the…
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Efficiently XOR two images in Flash compile target

I need to XOR two BitmapData objects together. I'm writing in Haxe, using the flash.* libraries and the AS3 compile target. I've investigated HxSL and PixelBender, and neither one seems to have a bitwise XOR operator, nor do they have any other…
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Pixel Bender Chroma Keying code for flex3 / as3

Does anybody know where i can find a good chroma keying pixel bender code example. Or does anybody know how to write such a code in pixel bender. Or a create pixel bender tutorial to create a chroma keying filter. Does anybody know how to get it in…
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Tweening Pixel Bender Filter Using Number Value With Basic Tween Class in Actionscript 3.0

i'm studying Pixel Bender. i have a filter who's parameter i want to tween. as far as i know, in order to tween a pixel bender parameter, i need to tween a number object and assign the tweening number object as the array value for the shader…
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Pixel Bender calculation over ALL pixels result

What I want is (basically) the same as "sum all the pixels of an image". However it seems that this can not be achieved by shader (I think that is why I'm asking ;-)): I want to pass the image + a parameter "treeshold" and check for each pixel of…
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Converting pixel bender to AS3

I'm writing an android app using AIR + AS3. Since pixel bender files are not supported in GPU mode, I'm trying to convert this chroma key filter to pure AS3. Any suggestions, tools or help will be appreciated: kernel…
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How to manipulate pixels of rendered screen or Display Object in Actionscript 3?

My game engine doesn't render into a BitmapData like Flixel/Flashpunk does. Instead it uses the Display list of Flash player internally. I need to do some post processing, like scan lines, and wobble, glitch etc on the final rendered screen (e.g-…
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How to stretch out the movie clip after applying some Pixel Bender filter? (Flash)

How to stretch out the movie clip to twice its width and height after applying some Pixel Bender filter? I have some object with video on it (for ex 512 by 512) I apply a Pixel Bender Filter on it. Now I want to stretch the result (for ex to 1024…
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Image Effect with Dark Borders

I was creating an effects library for a PhotoBooth App. I have created effects like Black/White, Vintage, Sepia, Retro etc. etc. I wanted to create a few effects now in which I wanted to have a Dark Border at the edges which kind of form a frame for…
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Pixel bender normal map

as usual thanks in advance.. I'm using pixel bender to generate lighting effects for a heightmap based terrain. I'd like to make a normal map of the terrain and from there dot each normal against a given sun direction. Pretty standard stuff really,…
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