- Adobe Pixel Bender
Adobe Pixel Bender, previously codenamed Hydra is a
programming language created byAdobe Systems for the description ofimage processing algorithms. The syntax is based onGLSL , and a Pixel Bender program is analogous to anOpenGL fragment shader .Pixel Bender programs are intended to be used in a number of Adobe products, and are currently supported by
After Effects CS3 and the beta version 10 ofFlash Player . A technology preview version of the Pixel Bender Toolkit has been released, allowing programs to be created and tested. [http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Pixel_Bender_Toolkit]As well as its primary purpose of image processing, Pixel Bender can also be used for general mathematical operations which would benefit from the hardware acceleration that it provides. An example of this is audio processing. [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/jchurch_flashplayer10.html]
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.