Flash Player 8 Public Beta

Macromedia still working on their new flash player engine.
Flash Player 8 ( a.k.a 8Ball) has big new fatures that will change overall flash usage on the world. Most important one is performance upgrade and bitmap classes.
Flash Player 8 Public Beta








Some good Samples about bitmap rendering and filters:

• Water
• Smoke
• Noise
• Eagle revealing
• http://www.rgblaster.de/ff/f8toys1.html
• Alien plasma
• Flash.geom, Movieclip.attachBitmap
• Image lens
• Color Picker
• Color Picker (from Image)
• Particles
• Fish tank
• Levitated man (angled blur)
• Windows with dropShadow (ActionStep)
• Nuran's supershape
• Text Motion blur
• Car Motion blur