Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:42:37 +0200
From: jeremy...@gmail.com
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Check this out: 3D news reader
Flying cars…
I am slowly but surely getting my video tutorial collection together in which one of the series projects shows how to write a 3D carousel using a canvas (so really fake 3D)… It should work in Silverlight as well though..
That particular carousel has such a wonderful transition scenario and I agree.. its great to finally start seeing things look “rich”.. Some late nights for Pavan ahead ;-)
Cool stuff!
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From: brennon...@x-coders.com
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Check this out: 3D news reader
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:05:12 +0100
“Are you a designer or developer or both ?!”
Both to a large degree.. interaction, functional and flow design, (occasionally graphical design), up until a few years ago was into enterprise development but mainly it has always been about the UI layer…
I don’t have the video made yet, but I could make a sample app for you if you need it?
Just let me know
Cheers
From: brennon...@x-coders.com
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Check this out: 3D news reader
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:11:47 +0100
I will try to get that sorted out over the next few days… bump me if I forget!
I would really like to see your results with that Pavan… ElementFlow rocks!
I will have some nice 3D questions for you shortly as well…. In the meantime.. one to get you thinking…
I have been making a primitives library with a few other cool bits.. but one thing that is proving to be a nice little challenge in WPF is to be able to create a Ribbon like mesh… that is sort of in the shape of a spring?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
From: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:wpf-di...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pavan Podila
Sent: 03 June 2008 14:42
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Check this out: 3D news reader
Sounds interesting ... I'll see how I can piece together a news-reader-like view in ElementFlow. I think it should be a mod of the Carousel view that I have at work. Next task is to get hold of some free time!
Yes that image is correct…
I think the way I was trying to do it is the problem.. I was using two offset concentric circles (so one above the other), to figure out the height points of the polygons and trying to basically build a triangle list first.. then blast it into the scene.
I think you will probably have a far more elegant and performant way of achieving this?
From: brennon...@x-coders.com
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Check this out: 3D news reader
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:41:20 +0100
Thanks for going to this effort Pavan, I really appreciate it.
I was trying to find the original code I wrote for this as it is very similar to what you created, per circle.
The thing is, that it is simple with one circle.. but when you have two circles or realistically 2 arc segments, constructing a triangle list becomes slightly different because as you know, the points need to be offset into triangles..
so.. ( I hope this art works )
I guess I am constructing it the slow way and I just hoped there would be a better way to achieve the same thing. Using the above method, I used the principle that I had a rule for each time a point was plotted, to retrieve 2 other points to get back the triangle.. and usually the triangle must be behind the plotted point.
I will get back to this soon enough at which point I will be knocking on your door if I may ;-) I really enjoy working on things like this so hopefully I can put some nice stuff together soon enough.
Cheers again, don’t lose any sleep over it!
Thanks Pavan.. I will give it all a crack later on