One of our resident gurus and an all-around great guy, Tinic Uro from the Flash Player engineering team, has posted a great break down of the new Pixel Bender technology that will be introduced in the upcoming Flash Player 10 “Astro” release. If you’re not familiar, Pixel Bender is a new technology shared across some of the upcoming Creative Suite tools as well as the Flash Player which allows developers to write high-end filters and effects using the Pixel Bender language and tool kit. Using the .pbj files, Flash/Flex developers will be able to incorporate their own custom effects into the SWF projects which will get rendered in real time by the Flash Player 10.

There is still some mystery around .pbj files, i.e. the file format is neither documented nor is it clear what exactly it contains. While I can’t offer documentation on the file format at this time (although that will happen eventually) what I can offer is an assembler and disassembler I quickly hacked together. I am mostly using for this my own debugging purposes. For those who want to tweak Pixel Bender in Flash to the max this is a really good way to go.

Read here.