Pixel Bender is formerly code named known as Hydra, which you may remember reading about here about six months ago. This Pixel Bender Toolkit Preview Release 4 includes a high-performance graphics programming language that Adobe is developing for image processing, named Pixel Bender and an application to create, compile and preview Pixel Bender filters and effects. The toolkit contains a specification for the Pixel Bender language, several sample filters, and sample images provided by Pixel Bender team members.

I just got an email from Mason Dixon of MG Chicago and he said:

Also btw, Flash 9 new features:
After Effect Style Timeline!!!!
Actionscriptable plugin-style visual filters....
like photoshop filters but scriptable in realtime
and 2.5D... um wow.

Attached was the link to Pixel Bender. I'm not going to even begin to understand all this can do but I thin kits something we should keep our eyes on.

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