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So I finally decided to release my barcode-scanner component. I know a lot of you people have been waiting for this!

I have been holding this off, as there is a lot of cool potential in the technology which I really wanted to explore. So fare it has always looked as I would have the time to work on this “in a few months�. I did however never get the time and I also realized that I never will with my plans for the future.

Therefore I have decided to give it away for free, so enjoy.

Ohh and if you build a social media indexing service where people can scan and categorize there media, give it points and get recommendations based on what other with same taste have voted… Send me a few cases of Cola, or Beer when you sell it to google for billions ;)

The scanner should be very easy to use, just read the readme.txt, and see the example

Download the component here:
http://barcodepedia.com/download

Spinning 3D earth I did for fun while experimenting with DisplacementMapFilter. The system works by drawing a, masked, moving MovieClip onto a bitmapCanvas and then applying a prerendered displacement map.
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While discussing — in #flash on quakenet — how to visulize the distance relation between nodes, I came up with simple way to make acool looking plasma effect by applying a few thresholds to a bitmapData.
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