How to Use the Pixel Bender Viewer

One of the things that I have been working on lately is a tool that allows you to load in Pixel Bender (aka Hydra) filters and view them on different types of content like images, vectors, and video. It also allows you to stack filters to see multiple running together at the same time. The tool also includes a few popular filters to try out if you don’t have any on your hard drive. Read the instructions below to learn how to use the tool.

If you want to try out your own Pixel Bender filters, you will need to create the binary filter file that Flash Player 10 can read in at runtime. From the Pixel Bender Toolkit, you will need to export your filter by choosing the menu option shown below:

The file that your export is the one that you can load into the viewer tool. In the current version of the toolkit your file will have an extension of PBJ. From the viewer tool, simple click on the import button and select your filter to load it in. If you don’t have any filters but you still want to play with the viewer tool, you can either download some from the Pixel Bender Exchange or simply select some existing filters using the combo box as shown below:

Please check out the tool and leave any questions or concerns in the comments section of this post.

Lee


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  1. Thanks for sharing Lee, is awesome tool. Best Regards!! Can i post some information in spanish about this in my blog? I put a link for this blog. Thanks.

  2. Harish says:

    Can anybody tell me how to save data in text file from flash 8.

    My code is :
    // This is written in Flash
    myData = new LoadVars();

    myData.onLoad = function(){
    if(this.writing==”Ok”) {
    trace (“Data saved”);
    }
    else
    {
    trace(“Data Not saved”);
    }
    }

    Submit.onPress=function() {

    myData.notes = notes.text;
    trace(myData.notes);
    myData.sendAndLoad(“save.asp”, myData, “POST”);
    notes.text=”";
    }

    //Code in PHP

    Still it doesn’t work. It doesn’t save data in text file and shows Data not saved message..
    Plse reply to my email : harish_neermarga@rediffmail.com

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