AIR 1.5 Cookbook Highlight – Pixel Bender

The AIR 1.5 Cookbook contains many useful recipes. I want to take some time to highlight some of the useful (and cool) recipes that are included in the book.

One of the cool tools that was given to developers with AIR 1.5 was the ability to use Pixel Bender filters inside of AIR applications. While many of you know that Pixel Bender filters can be used to manipulate images, some of you may not know that they can also be used for computationally expensive calculations (such as are used in audio filters, etc…). With the possibilities, you will certainly want to have a good understanding of how to incorporate these filters into your application.

Chapter 3 of the AIR 1.5 Cookbook contains a recipe that applies a Pixel Bender filter to the application window, and it uses the position of the window on the monitor to adjust the effect of the filter. Once you have mastered working with the recipe in the book, it would be quite easy to utilize any Pixel Bender filter.

You can order your copy of the AIR 1.5 Cookbook from Amazon today (they will be shipping soon). You can also start to look for the book in your local bookstore over the next week.