Video: Color My World

Color My World, the next episode in the gripping and suspenseful series CodeDependent, is now available from Adobe TV. I hope this satisfies the great hue and cry for color-related tutorials.

This show is not so much about Flex code as it is about color interpolation. Okay, I take that back; I do talk a bit about arbitrary type interpolation in the Flex 4 effects, which is what enables the new AnimateColor effect used in the demo. But the main idea behind the show was a demo app I wrote to test out a couple of color interpolation alternatives for AnimateColor and some observations about the results. This is probably a one-off topic, the only one I'll ever do that approaches anything close to color theory - that's a subject that I haven't touched since my thesis. But it is interesting to see how interpolating colors in different color spaces can have a dramatically different effect on the resulting animation. And of course it's also interesting to see how cool arbitrary type interpolation is in Flex 4...

Here's the video:

Here is the demo application:

And here is the source code.

Enjoy.