I am not naive enough to believe I originally created this effect. As with anything, there always seems to be someone somewhere that did it sometime before :). Either way, I made a version of it for my previous site in AS2 and it came with me when I updated the site.

Ever since that first site there’s been a somewhat steady flow of questions regarding it. I vaguely remember writing a AS2 tutorial for it on gotoandlearn and I get a lot of mails regarding it.

So, I figured I’d take advantage of AS3’s massive improvements and create a transition class with the same effect. It’s hard to give it a specific name, but I’ve always called it the “pixelating transition“. You’ll understand when you check it out. Go ahead tough guy. Click the header!