Another new image rotator! The application used simple masking skill in creating the transition effects. You may further customize it or create new effects for your own need.
Images used in the application below are collected from Smashing Magazine - 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials.
Comparison
Flash implementation: 55 minutes (Implemented First)
Silverlight implementation: 80 minutes
What’s the difference?
- Creating Animated Mask [AS3] vs [C#]
Source codes
Image Rotator [Flash 9, AS3] (265.7 KiB, 1,909 hits)
- Image Rotator [Silverlight 2, C#] (125.9 KiB, 1,968 hits)
Flash
Silverlight
Creating Animated Mask [AS3] vs [C#]
In Flash, creating mask or animated is fairly simple. You may just add a mask layer and use the Shape Tween Effect. Everything can be done in a minutes!!
However, it’s another story in Silverlight. Since you have to use the Geometry object to clip an object, animating the mask is no longer a simple stuff. Firstly, Blend has a very poor support for Geometry and it’s very hard to use. Besides, the StoryBoard model in Silvelight is comparatively hard to make animations comparing to using the Shape Tween.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
It seems this site is only visited by MS/Silverlight fans.
I am a Silverlight fan myself and prefer it over Flash, but to be honest, it is painfully obvious that the Flash animations perform better (the Silverlight animations are choppy).
The vote count surely must be based on a one-sided visitor selection.
Karl
December 19th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Karl,
You are right. To be honest, the voting seems can’t reflect the actual result already.
Somehow, I think I have to review the voting system.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Silverlight is betterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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