Back 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 simulate the flipping tile affect seen in the iTunes album art screen saver, available on a Mac. In my example I [...]

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Building on the sample I created on Circular Motion, in this example I add a concept of collision.  In physics, deflection is the event that occurs where an object collides and bounces off of another surface.  In my example, two spheres collide at a given X/Y causing each ball to reverse direction and maintains its [...]

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In this sample I demonstrate how to take a series of UserControls (Simple ellipses) and rotate each in a counter-clockwise circular motion. The first step in the process is to define a user control and expose both the TranslateTransform and RotateTransform from the TransformGroup object.  This allows us to rotate and move each user control [...]

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This week I was reading two of my favorite Microsoft Evangelist blogs; Kirk Allen Evans’ and Tim Heuer and was inspired to build upon two of their posts. Kirk wrote a great entry on Creating a JSON Service with WebGet and WCF 3.5 and Tim on Calling web services with Silverlight 2. I thought it [...]

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