Water effects

..have always been something I've thought was really hard to do in flash. So far I've found two approaches to this solution.

1. static water animations on the timeline
   
2. dynamic water animations via code

the static approach:

This is a great example of how I can go overboard when I start getting creative. You'll probably recognize this image from digital blasphemy. I've taken it and put some cool static animations on it, and even synced up a nice song from OCRemix.
I found the tutorial for the water effect here.







the dynamic approach

This solution is far more realistic, but more costly to the cpu. In this app's case, my cpu sits at 24% (I have a fast computer), so that's actually not too bad, but if we were to size the video up, it would start to slow down.

I did not write make this app, one of my genius friends did, you can view his page here.
I'm not posting his code up here, but he's used the perlinNoise filter to achieve this beautiful ripple effect.