Actionscript Halftone Effect

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Some of the most satisfying graphical effects are simple in concept and execution.

Here's the class in Actionscript 3. It's essentially one public method which takes in a bitmap and writes to a sprite. With a few optional parameters. See the source code comments for the details.

To do: Add the ability to use overlapping colors. Apparently, the dot patterns for additional colors are supposed to be set at different angles from each other -- which is less straight-forward, programmatically, than simply setting the 'screen angle' to 45-degrees, as done here.

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