# Slicing Images

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slicing-images/179548>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slicing-images/179548 "2006-02-21T04:58:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jpao17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jpao17](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jpao17)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slicing-images/179548/1 "2006-02-21T04:58:21Z")

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Any ideas on how to take an externally loaded JPG, and using Pure actionscript, slicing it into a variable number of peices (all seperate movieclips in an array of course). Im thinking the Bitmapdata class might help… Any thoughts?

Chris