How to create Particles structure from text in AS3?

Question

I want to take any Text sting and form from it text formed by particles in actionscript 3 (In flash \ flex) I see I need some lib for this. but all libs Ive seen do not have such functionalyty by default...

So I want to get something like this

So Is there any sych lib? or way of doing it with some lib?

It should be Free and Opensource (any license like GPL, LGPL etc will be ok).

Answer 1

There's a method for doing this described here:

http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/laboratory/flash/as3-alphabet-particles

There are some other ready-made components here:

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/advanced_text_particles.html

http://www.blogaboutflash.com/2008/08/using-particles-to-fill-dynamic-content.html

... but they might be less useful to you than the first link.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

See if this article helps you.