Pixel-in-Gene

As promised I’ve uploaded the source and binaries of XamlXporter. XamlXporter is a script for exporting Illustrator artwork in WPF/XAML. It is written in C # 2.0 for easier maintainence. It currently exports the following objects from Illustrator CS2: Strokes Linear and Radial…

Its one of those lucky days when you find a program so cool and that you feel like having it yourself…or if you are developer like, develop it yourself ;) Have a look at this YouTube video (click picture) and you will know what I am talking about. So now my developer brain kicks…

I guess the title for this blog post answers 90% of what I had to say ;) Yes, I have spent the last few days working on using the scripting object model for Illustrator CS2 to export the artwork to WPF/XAML. The code is entirely in C # / .Net 2.0 and uses the Illustrator CS2 COM…

Sometime back I posted a video of the Water ripple effect created using a 3D Mesh. In that I had only used a height-map to simulate the ripples which ofcourse wasn’t the most convincing Water effect. This time around I have improved it with the some refraction effects happening…

I have been contemplating for many days about creating the Genie effect that you see in Mac OSX, when you minimize a window. It kind of creates a suction effect like a cloth being sucked into a vacuum cleaner. If you have a Mac, you would know. Unfortunately I don’t have a Mac…

I have been spending a lot of time lately in developing 3D effects and some reusable controls for overlaying 3D effects on 2D controls (a subject of a forthcoming blog post). One of the core requirements is that the position of the PerspectiveCamera should be such that the 3D…

When we talk about 3D rotations in WPF, we immediately think of RotateTransform3D and AxisAngleRotation3D. Animating these rotations is then a matter of changing the Angle property using a DoubleAnimation. When we want to apply a series of rotations on 3D models with smooth…

I loved watching this video demonstration of a Takeo Igarashi from the University of Tokyo. In the demo he demonstrates a tool that can be used for creating 3D models by simple 2D strokes. More than being an awesome video it is also a fun tool to spend hours just doodling and…

WPF provides a keyspline based animation for achieving very realistic effects. Creating an ease-in, ease-out effect is a matter of specifying the right keyspline values. I have always found it difficult to visualize these values and in an attempt to alleviate my pain and misery I…

Particle effects like fire, fog, snow, ripples in water are very captivating. I love the way Max OSX uses these effects to create a great user experience. For example OSX has a nice ripple effect in the background when you add a Dashboard Widget. That effect has been my…