Silverlight 3D flip animation

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private TimeSpan AnimateFlip(Storyboard sb, ScaleTransform scale, 
out TimeSpan tsLastFrame)
{
    double speed = 4;
    double flipRotation = 0;
    double flipped = 2;
    tsLastFrame = new TimeSpan();
    TimeSpan tsSideFlipped = new TimeSpan();
 
    int frames = 1;
    DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames daX = 
	new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();
    tsLastFrame = new TimeSpan();
    while (flipRotation != flipped * 180)
    {
        flipRotation += speed;
        double flipRadian = flipRotation * (Math.PI / 180);
        double size = Math.Cos(flipRadian);
        double scalar = (1 / (1 / size));
 
        DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame ddkfX = new DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame();
        ddkfX.Value = (size * scalar) ;
 
        tsLastFrame = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(frames * 7);
 
        //the first time we flip to negative capture the 
	//tsLastFrame so we know when we will need to
        //visualize the flip side
        flipped = (size < 0) ? +1 : +0;
        if (flipped == 1 && tsSideFlipped.Ticks == 0)
        {
            tsSideFlipped = tsLastFrame;
        }
 
        ddkfX.KeyTime = KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(tsLastFrame);
 
        //add the DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame to the 
	//DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames
        daX.KeyFrames.Add(ddkfX);
 
        flipRotation %= 360;
        frames++;
    }
 
    Storyboard.SetTarget(daX, scale);
    Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(daX, "ScaleX");
    sb.Children.Add(daX);
 
    VisualizeSide(sb, tsSideFlipped, 0, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds
		((tsSideFlipped.Milliseconds + 100)), 
		back.Opacity, this.back);
    VisualizeSide(sb, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds((
		tsSideFlipped.Milliseconds - 100)), front.Opacity, 
		tsSideFlipped, 0, this.front);
    back.Opacity = 0;
    return tsLastFrame;
}

10 Responses to “Silverlight 3D flip animation”

1. David Roh said:
   

   May 3rd, 2008 at 6:42 am

   Hi Joel,

   Thank you for sharing this – it’s very nice!

   David

2. » Silverlight Flipping Tiles Animation said:
   

   May 15th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   [...] a few weeks ago I posted an example of how to create a 3D flip animation similar to the effect seen on an iPhone. Today I will build upon that procedural animation and [...]

3. Rick said:
   

   June 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm

   Great Post!

   I do have a question. Would it be easy to make the Back grid larger then the front Grid? So that if you click on the front youll get more detail on the back side and still make a good 3d animation?

4. Richard said:
   

   July 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   I spun this off as a class with a static methods so I could reuse it in many places. Here’s the code for anyone that wants to save some time.

   using System;
   using System.Net;
   using System.Windows;
   using System.Windows.Controls;
   using System.Windows.Documents;
   using System.Windows.Ink;
   using System.Windows.Input;
   using System.Windows.Media;
   using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
   using System.Windows.Shapes;

   namespace ScreenFlip
   {
   public class FlipStoryboardCreator
   {
   public static void Create(UIElement front, UIElement back, out Storyboard sb, out ScaleTransform scale, out TimeSpan tsLastFrame)
   {
   double speed = 4;
   double flipRotation = 0;
   double flipped = 2;
   sb = new Storyboard();
   scale = new ScaleTransform();
   tsLastFrame = new TimeSpan();
   TimeSpan tsSideFlipped = new TimeSpan();

   int frames = 1;
   DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames daX = new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();
   tsLastFrame = new TimeSpan();
   while (flipRotation != flipped * 180)
   {
   flipRotation += speed;
   double flipRadian = flipRotation * (Math.PI / 180);
   double size = Math.Cos(flipRadian);
   double scalar = (1 / (1 / size));

   DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame ddkfX = new DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame();
   ddkfX.Value = (size * scalar);

   tsLastFrame = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(frames * 7);

   //the first time we flip to negative capture the tsLastFrame so we know when we will need to
   //visualize the flip side
   flipped = (size < 0) ? +1 : +0;
   if (flipped == 1 && tsSideFlipped.Ticks == 0)
   {
   tsSideFlipped = tsLastFrame;
   }

   ddkfX.KeyTime = KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(tsLastFrame);

   //add the DiscreteDoubleKeyFrame to the DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames
   daX.KeyFrames.Add(ddkfX);

   flipRotation %= 360;
   frames++;
   }

   Storyboard.SetTarget(daX, scale);
   Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(daX, new PropertyPath(”(ScaleX)”));
   sb.Children.Add(daX);

   VisualizeSide(sb, tsSideFlipped, 0, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds((tsSideFlipped.Milliseconds + 100)), back.Opacity, back);
   VisualizeSide(sb, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds((tsSideFlipped.Milliseconds – 100)), front.Opacity, tsSideFlipped, 0, front);
   back.Opacity = 0;
   }

   private static void VisualizeSide(Storyboard sb, TimeSpan tsStart, double opacityStart, TimeSpan tsEnd, double opacityEnd, UIElement side)
   {
   DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames daOpacity = new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();
   SplineDoubleKeyFrame sdkfStart = new SplineDoubleKeyFrame();
   sdkfStart.Value = opacityStart;
   sdkfStart.KeyTime = tsStart;
   sdkfStart.KeySpline = DefineKeySpline(0, 0, 1, 1);
   daOpacity.KeyFrames.Add(sdkfStart);

   SplineDoubleKeyFrame sdkfEnd = new SplineDoubleKeyFrame();
   sdkfEnd.Value = opacityEnd;
   sdkfEnd.KeyTime = tsEnd;
   sdkfEnd.KeySpline = DefineKeySpline(0, 0, 1, 1);
   daOpacity.KeyFrames.Add(sdkfEnd);

   Storyboard.SetTarget(daOpacity, side);
   Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(daOpacity, new PropertyPath(”(UIElement.Opacity)”));

   sb.Children.Add(daOpacity);
   }

   private static KeySpline DefineKeySpline(double cp1X, double cp1Y, double cp2X, double cp2Y)
   {
   KeySpline ksStart = new KeySpline();
   ksStart.ControlPoint1 = new Point(cp1X, cp1Y);
   ksStart.ControlPoint2 = new Point(cp2X, cp2Y);
   return ksStart;
   }
   }
   }

5. Emma said:
   

   March 11th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

   I’ve seen a lot of these flip effects, but they are limited to just two images and just flipping vertically. How can you modify to use not just images, but a datagrid or flip multiple controls? and flip it horizontally?

6. joel said:
   

   March 11th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

   What I demo is not images, but actual controls.

7. Hari said:
   

   March 24th, 2009 at 9:24 am

   Did you try building this with the Silverlight 3 3D animations yet?

8. joel said:
   

   March 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   I did in my presentation for Mix09. If you skip to the end you will see a Web Slice I did for HatClub that uses projection to flip from one side of a view to another. Here is a link to the example http://thetophat.staging.terralever.com/

9. Tode said:
   

   June 1st, 2009 at 8:51 am

   great example…

   thank you

10. Irfan said:
    

    June 24th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    Excellent work.

    I faced one problem when I tried to replace the controls with textboxes, bottons etc, but I cannot focus onto the textbox and unable to click on the button.

    Is there any work around for that.

    Thank You.

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