It’s Thanksgiving weekend in the US, people. What better time than this to say “thank you!” to those developers and artists making their awesome work accessible for public reuse.
Below is a list of Open Source projects from where I got inspiration and/or code for the graphic app that I’m working on to create some art. Thank you all and keep up the good work.
Code Libraries
BitmapData Colour Palette
- Description:Algorithms for extracting interesting color palettes from an image.
- Author: Justin Windle
- Url: http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/code/actionscript-3/colourutils-bitmapdata-extract-colour-palette
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Async PNG encoding and merging
- Description: A pretty cool PNG encoder that allows for large Bitmap encoding with synchronous and asynchronous methods.
- Author: Eugene Zatepyakin (http://www.inspirit.ru/)
- Url: http://blog.inspirit.ru/?p=378
- Url: http://code.google.com/p/in-spirit/wiki/PNGEncoder
PNG Encode & Decode with Metadata
- Description: PNG Encoder with Metadata Encoding and Decoding Methods (yep, those Adobe Core Libs are falling behind feature-wise.)
- Author: st33d (http://robotacid.com)
- Url: http://wonderfl.net/c/oVSK
- License: MIT license
Mojocolors
- Description: Fantastic Library for handling colors. In their own words:
Mojocolors allows you to work with color in Actionscript in a very natural way, for example by using HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) for color manipulation. […] Color theory / harmony rules, different shades of the same color, sorting by brightness or hue or saturation, creation of gradients and much more are implemented.
- Author: Philipp Laeubli
- License: GNU General Public License v2
- Url: http://code.google.com/p/mojocolors/
Potrace & PotrAS
- Description: Potrace is a very effective utility for tracing bitmaps and PotrAS an AS3 port.
- License: GNU General Public License v2
- Url: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nitoyon/20071002/potrace
Graphics
Iconic Icon Set
- Description: A cool, clean and minimal set of vector icons that come in many flavors (raster, font set, swc…)
- Author: P.J. Onori (AKA Some Random Dude)
- Url: http://somerandomdude.com/projects/iconic/
- License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Tools
Exif Viewer
- Description: Online tool for EXIF and Metadata analisys of image files.
- Author: Jeffrey Friedl (http://regex.info)
- Url: http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Color Teory
The Müller Formula (or: Predictable Color Preferences)
- Description:
More than half a century ago, Aemelius Müller, professor at the academy of Winterthur, Switzerland, came up with a formula that could predict the appreciation of a color-combination. In other words: Müller was able to predict which combination of colors most people would probably like.
- Author: Darius A. Monsef IV (AKA COLOURlover)
- Url: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/02/the-muller-formula-or-predictable-color-preferences/