A little taste of the power and fury of Flash 8 - lower the quality for more speed!

Please note that the effect above (by which I mean quad deforms) is NOT a "feature" of flash 8 - it's something that is made "possible" by the new Bitmap APIs, not to mention "feasible" by the new filters. The code to actually create this effect is, ah, nontrivial. There's still much optimization to be done with this, so consider it proof-of-concept.

PS - if you ask me how I did this, the answer will be "slowly". ;)