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Published: 2010-11-07 19:17:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 4921; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 91
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So =lightbird shared this video some time ago on Facebook, it kind of inspired me to go and quickly try to reproduce something like that in Flash and here is the result.

You can also play with parameters achieving different effects and then save/share it as a link. Sadly DA does not allow some things so I can't get browser address data from Flash.
At the same time after this work save mechanism I did not want to make copy/paste based saving, too many clicks and too many places where user can make a mistake loosing his result and saddening me... So I really wanted to make it in to one click save and one click load. You just click to get a link and then just a click to open the page with your results loaded. I also do not need to store it anywhere, link itself is the save.

Soo after some thinking on how to do it for DA I have up, may be possible but not worth the time and still would kick my server so I decided just to link to my blog entry with it where I can allow Flash to access browser address with parameters.

Source code and links
I also made a wonderfl version here [link]
So you can see the code, learn something, fork it and make something new with it

Also here is blog post with it [link]
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Comments: 26

LuckyKitty777 [2017-08-17 16:48:47 +0000 UTC]

so cool!!!

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maximathevaporeon [2011-11-30 02:07:54 +0000 UTC]

put rgb and multiply then see isnt it cute as ?

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to maximathevaporeon [2011-11-30 16:10:06 +0000 UTC]

No probably not as pretty but rainbowy

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nugget12 [2011-03-06 03:57:27 +0000 UTC]

nice

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doc-d [2010-12-01 09:07:22 +0000 UTC]

What a coincidence! I saw a documentairy about northern light a while back and thought 'I'm gonna make that in flash!", never pulled it off though. Really amazing effect, my eyes like it

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to doc-d [2010-12-01 09:29:45 +0000 UTC]

Haha I see Thanks

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lightbird [2010-11-14 21:16:14 +0000 UTC]

So, droolbucket time.

I think the basic idea is well put, though I think it could be more, hm, undulating, not so wavy? I like how you can mix various effects in this. :3 Perhaps the colours could be more natural, but that's probably being nitpicky, eh?

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to lightbird [2010-11-14 22:52:08 +0000 UTC]



Yeah I know it is not as superb as real thing and I guess it is possible to make it better but I am fine with result for now As for being too wavy... Not sure real thing is less wavy As for colors... Well it is just green by default, not sure what makes real color look real, guess just range/depth and details then color itself.
Anyways fine for me, not that I wanted some Hollywood grade effect

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Graphica [2010-11-11 13:38:44 +0000 UTC]

Crazy ^^

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Graphica [2010-11-11 14:10:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Not really, its just 88 lines of code and a sloppy ones made for fun

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Graphica In reply to wonderwhy-ER [2010-11-14 19:35:10 +0000 UTC]

-.- ah yeah that's easy! Could do that in my sleep

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Graphica [2010-11-14 20:53:32 +0000 UTC]

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CaKeS1 [2010-11-07 23:09:11 +0000 UTC]

Wow I love this, really cool. No idea how you did it either

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to CaKeS1 [2010-11-08 07:22:40 +0000 UTC]

Well there is a link to wonderfl version where you can see code and learn how I did it

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aegir2501 [2010-11-07 21:48:10 +0000 UTC]

cool i like it, basics are correct, good job dude

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to aegir2501 [2010-11-07 22:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Donitz [2010-11-07 19:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Pretty freaking sweet. These kinds of effects would work great with a third person flash game.

[link]

Blur y = 1, noticed that it wasn't included.

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derpydozens In reply to Donitz [2013-05-26 23:47:08 +0000 UTC]

i find you everywere

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Donitz [2010-11-07 19:45:05 +0000 UTC]

Ups your are right, fixed... And damn such changed currently break old links Weakness of my methods, will need to be fixed but it is too late for this work... Ah well

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Donitz [2010-11-07 19:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Heh I guess but it eats up lot of CPU... So not unless GPU shaders will be available or something

You mean that blur y was not saved as parameter?

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Apofiss [2010-11-07 19:25:30 +0000 UTC]

man, this is beautiful... *goes for source code!*

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Apofiss [2010-11-07 19:29:18 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I actually recommend that site. DA has some things to learn from it.

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Zappan [2010-11-07 19:19:37 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I love it

Very beautiful effect

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Zappan [2010-11-07 19:20:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Honestly it is far from real thing And I bet it is possible to get a lot closer to real thing just not in time I have available

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Zappan In reply to wonderwhy-ER [2010-11-08 07:13:17 +0000 UTC]

It's still amazing
Yet, it appears that deaviantart won't let me add it to my favs ^^
Recently, dA ajax's thingy seems to be truly glitchy ^^

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wonderwhy-ER In reply to Zappan [2010-11-08 07:21:59 +0000 UTC]

Especially when it comes to Flash deviations...

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