Flex / AS3 : Red Eye reduction - apache-flex

I was looking a component to reduce red eye effect on taken photos. Ive found an image Processing library, but it does not work well at all. I was thinking on brush an image, manually, and only paint if the base pixel color its red or near in RGB.
Have no time now to explain all the process, but i need help to get this idea, or to get a working comp
Thanks in advance!

If you are wishing to manipulate the pixels of an image/component then pixelbender would be a pretty good way to go.
Have a look at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26 for downloadable examples.
These can be run using the toolkit found at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbender/
Video tutorials on pixel bender can be found at http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
With this you could change just the required pixel colours to anything and it works with everything in flash (images, canvas, button's etc)

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Render 2D text in Autodesk Forge without aliasing or blurring

Turns out I’m working with the Autodesk Forge viewer and Three.js, trying to render 2D text that can be interacted with (specifically select, rotate, and move).
To do this I am working with meshes (using MeshBasicMaterial, Mesh and TextGeometry) but it turns out that the text does not look perfectly sharp, it presents aliasing and I found that according to the API reference, the antialiasing is not applicable to 2d.
Here are some examples of the problem, as you can see, the more I move away from the plane, the worse the text looks (and even up close it doesn't look perfect):
I have tried to make a test representing the text with a Sprite (despite the fact that it would mean having to change the entire implementation already made with meshes of other functionalities) but apart from the fact that I cannot see it, I have seen example images and they do not appear either well: aliasing is visible from a distance and it looks really blurry up close. Here some examples:
Is there a way to correct this problem or is this the most I can get in 2D? I've tried searching for information on this but can't find anything helpful. And what has puzzled me the most has been realizing that antialiasing was not applicable in the case of 2d, like making it clear that nothing can be done to fix it.
I would be very grateful if you could solve my doubts, thank you very much in advance for your help.
An easier alternative, is to just use a higher pixel ratio for the renderer...
window.devicePixelRatio=2;
viewer.resize();
For example, using the custom geometry text, from Joao's demo, you can see the same aliasing issue at DPR=0.5 and DPR=1.0 ...
https://joaomartins-forge.github.io/textgeometry-sample/
But when I set the DPR=2.0, the text looks clean. The trade off is rendering performance, but your 2D drawings may be simple enough that it won't matter. You can use a 'mouse up' camera settle trick, to switch between DPR of 1 and 2, if you want a better UX experience.
There are a few ways to solve this aliasing issue for 2D (and 3D text).
The way I would recommend for your use case, is to use DIV elements (THREE.CSS3DRenderer), instead of text converted into three.js tessellated triangle geometry, as shown in this blog post:
https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/how-do-you-add-labels-forge-viewer
You can find out more information about THREE.CSS3DRenderer here:
https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRenderer
and an Example here: https://threejs.org/examples/#css3d_periodictable
Using CSS3DRenderer instead of CSS2DRenderer, means you will get the correct scaling (and rotation) of the div element as you zoom into your 2D drawing and the mathematics inside the calculation for the matrix transform has less edge-cases.
Once you are using DIV elements for your text, you will notice that the text is sharper and has no aliasing issues. That's because it is not being rasterized by the webGL pipeline, but by the SKIA library used by chrome/firefox/opera/etc for rasterizing text.
There is one final option, that uses signed-distance fields, but it's probably overkill for what you need.
Let me know if you want some example code.

background-position technique for 'single-sprite-background-images'

What is a good 'image spriting' tool to turn single images into one big sprite with different background-position?
I know about http://spriteme.org/ but it doesn't seem to produce a result as nice as:
goDaddy's or Behance's
I've been doing it by hand for small hovers and icons but doing the entire website would take a while to hand-code all the background-position properties.
Thanks
You can try SASS/COMPASS. Even if you are only using the sprite functionality (called sprite mixin) it is worth using it. There are some nice tutorials like this one.

Convert PNG image to SVG / Vector

We are desperate to convert an image so that it can be used as an image map. Everything I have tried, really doesnt cut the mustard. I havent the experience to work at very high resolutions.. plus I dont know the terminology and neither have the skills or resources to invest in learning how to do this, knowing many others on here and the internet have far greater experience.
I have downloaded and played with Inkscape, but really am going round in circles...
So thought I would ask here.
What I am after is similar to Raphael Australia Map or David Lynchs, http://davidlynch.org/js/maphilight/docs/demo_usa.html
No frills, no effects, just change the state color of the map on hover and retain that event on click.
Here is what we have ...
What we have is a MAP like this.
We lost the original file, which was pure gray. I have this left :(
Anyway, we want it so that each state ( including the territory ACT ) not indicated on the above map, represented in pink #ec008c . On hover
Map needs to be FLAWLESS !! Also require that any imagery must be png and transparent bg.
Must remain exact size as above. Must be extremely accurate on svg coordinates, and optionally would like the STATE text to appear , like the QLD is shown on the image above, but not wholly necessary.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please.
Have you tried Path > Trace Bitmap in Inkscape? If you play with the settings you should be able to get a decent vectorised image.
Vectorised:
EPS:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13402937/Australia.eps
Adobe Illustrator:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13402937/Australia.ai
try to use this tool, its the potrace part to trace pixelpictures in inkscape with many features. potrace traces pictures from commandline
I have obtained extraordinary results with https://vectormagic.com/ , which can be tried online.

Flex Pan & Zoom with vector images

I've looked at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/fig_panzoom/ for pan & zoom, and it does a very good job of it. However, it only works with raster images. Does anyone know how to modify this for vector images (SVG converted to SWF).
My limited attempts have not gone well, as the Imageviewer.as class is clearly designed around bitmaps.
I can load the SVG images in an Image, but I'd really like to pan & zoom too.
Thanks.
Have you looked at OpenZoom? AFAIK it supports anything that can be loaded on the stage.

Is it possible to emulate Mac Osx Finder search highlight in HTML + CSS?

Mac OSX Finder has a search feature that darkens everything but the part that matches.
(source: justaddwater.dk)
Is there a way to emulate it via CSS? I was thinking about adding a semi-transparent black div with opacity 50. But how then do I cut a hole in it?? and possibly make the edge fuzzy?
Any suggestions?
Check out the Expose jquery plugin from the jQuery TOOLS collection. I think it will accomplish exactly what you are looking for. They even have a demo of styling the mask with a background image.
Due to the irregular shapes, you're probably looking for an image. And due to the need for varying levels of transparency, you probably want a .png that would just be stuck over the selected item.
Good question, one way would be to have a "selected" png that had the glowing circle cover the selected one, and a different just dark png cover everything else.
EDIT: But you would probably want to use a library like jquery rather than coding everything from scrath your self, as to not reinvent the wheel and save TONS of time :D
maybe a PNG image will work, a square with hole

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