As promised on Thursday, here is version 0.1 of my Canvas Class, which makes the process of drawing to a BitmapData object and rendering to screen a little bit easier.I will be releasing another version later in the week with some nice effects incorporated, but this one is the bare bones version. To use it, simply import the Class and create an instance of it. Then any time you want to draw any movie to the canvas, call the etch method:

import com.blprnt.genart.*

my_canvas = new Canvas(_root);

my_canvas.etch(my_mc, true); 

There is an example file to show you how it all works. 

Hopefully this will make life a little bit easier for anyone who wants to get started creating generative compositions in Flash. It is intended to be part of a broader genart package giving easy access to some commonly used Flash routines.