Last week we took a look at how to create metaballs in Flash, now it’s time for another all-time classic: the specular bloom effect.

In the real world, blooming occurs because even a perfect lens can’t focus perfectly, causing adjacent parts of an image to bleed together. At normal light levels, this effect is [...]

In this tutorial, I’ll go over an easy technique to achieve a metaball style effect in Flash/AS3. The intended audience of this text are developers with an intermediate background in Actionscript, but the general procedure is very easy to understand and applicable to any other language/API that lets you perform image filtering (such as blurring [...]