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AE Feature Request (Dear Adobe)
// Sun 2009.01.11 02:00 // {after effects}// [ ]

Update: Dear Adobe — please acquire and incorporate ObviousFX’s Copy Image plugin as part of After Effects proper.
The plugin, available for Mac and Windows, adds an Edit menu item, Copy Image, which copies the current composition image to the clipboard.
Thanks, ObviousFX and thanks, Rich, for pointing it out for me. Great stuff.

Original post:
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AE: A Snowflake
// Sat 2008.12.27 10:05 // {after effects extendscript}// [ ]

download snowflakeSteps.aep
Featuring: Bevel Alpha, omino kaleidoscope, and animated paths.
Sounds like the USA has had a heck of a Christmas weather run! Folks taking their vacations on airport waiting benches, and so forth. In particular, Seattle, home to After Effects. Where I am, it’s 7:33 pm, and I’ve just returned, sweating, from a nice bowl of [...]

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AE: Mask Vertices from ExtendScript
// Thu 2008.12.25 00:11 // {after effects extendscript}// [ ]

We’ll take it as axiomatic that scripting After Effects is pretty keen. But sometimes you can get lost in the nest of properties, property groups, values, attributes, and the subtle differences in nomenclature for properties and attributes used by After Effects and the JavaScript.
It is definitely possible to access and manipulate each vertex on a [...]

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Two Illustrator Scripts
// Mon 2008.12.15 06:59 // {extendscript illustrator}// [ ]

Here’s a pair of Illustrator scripts I’ve had up for a while, but this is the first time I’ve posted examples. Also, Javier Enciso of www.formaestudio.com in Uruguay spotted a bug in the triangle script, which is now fixed.
Both available at http://omino.com/sw/ominoAdobeScriptsSuite/.
Circular Gauge (circularGauge.jsx)

This script draws numbers and tick-marks to resemble a circular gauge. It [...]

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Found Graphic Design, Penang
// Sun 2008.12.14 01:59 // {graphic design}

Hello from balmy Penang, Malaysia!
My Northern California employer, a well-known FPGA vendor, has an office here in Penang Malaysia. I got permission to “telecommute” from here for a couple of months. Today is just cooling down, it’s 5pm and about 80F outside, with a chance of rain. Same weather year round.
Not much in the way [...]

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Flex: Simple Visualizer
// Fri 2008.11.28 21:53 // {off topic}// []

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Rehi All! Rewelcome to Pixel Blog
// Wed 2008.11.19 12:21 // {after effects general}// [ ]

Hello seekers!
I’ve been getting a fair amount of traffic lately, mostly from Pixel Bender searches and a few references from forums and other blogs. And the number of subscribers is steadily growing. I guess some of the stuff here is useful to someone. Hooray, I say!
(And of course by “fair amount of traffic” I don’t [...]

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Pixel Bender: Sphere Redux
// Sun 2008.11.2 22:58 // {pixel bender}// [ ]

Tweaks and improvements to the previous diced sphere Pixel Bender kernel.
Just click Go. Really.

cubes04.swf

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Pixel Bender: Waves
// Sat 2008.11.1 21:10 // {pixel bender}// [ ]

Everyone loves sine waves.

waves.swf

click forhttp://omino.com/pixelblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/waves.swf
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Pixel Bender: Circles, Squares, Lines, & Metadata
// Tue 2008.10.28 21:22 // {pixel bender}// [ ]

This post will show a handful of simple tricks for “drawing” using Pixel Bender. That’s not what it’s for, especially in Flash. But it’s still interesting to see how it’s done.
But first, the demo:

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