You can have a lot of useless fun with the BitmapData class. In the example below I recreated a popular rain on water effect over a picture using the BitmapData class, the ConvolutionFilter class, the DisplacementMapFilter class, the ColorTransform class, and a handy dandy little interval which uses the new timer classes in AS 3.0.

Since most of my work is for corporate clients I don’t get a lot of time to experiment with the creative capabilities in Actionscript. I am very tired tonight but stay tuned for the tutorial so you can use this effect on your site. If only I could get a swimming pool client, all the content could sit behind this effect. Wouldn’t that be annoying

In order to see this demo you must have Flash Player 9 installed. If you don’t, go here and install it.