title: Actionscript 3: getColorBoundsRect
body: <p>I have a question. I have a BitmapData with 2 red circles. I want to find the rectangle area or each circle. If i use [B]getColorBoundsRect[/B] I get the smallest area enclosed by the 2 circles.</p>
  
  <p>How can i go about this and get individual area of the circles?
  below is a diagram i created to better explain my question:<br/>
  <a href="http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/3360/sampleja.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/3360/sampleja.png</a></p>
  
  <p>previously this question was asked before but don't quite understand 
  how the provided solution solved the problem.
  <a href="http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?324586-Question-to-getColorBoundsRect" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?324586-Question-to-getColorBoundsRect</a></p>
  
  <p>hope someone here can shed some light for me. Thanks a million.</p>