I decided I wanted to make a nice little preloader for my various things, which also doubled as an excuse to benchmark matrix scaling vs. an AS3 implementation of the nearest neighbor algorithm. The matrix version was far faster, and I used it for rotations too. I would quite like to get a rotozoom effect working too, but for now this will do:

Preloader

I would also quite like to see if I can get some other effects in there, although I appreciate that as internet speeds become faster the humble preloader shall eventually wane :( It's a shame really, with the speed of the new flash 10 with typed arrays old-skool demo effects are becoming more plausible, which would be perfect for cool preloaders.