After playing around with the previous examples (focal length and camera objects), I have combined the two into a new application. This examples shows objects in a random star field floating in space. Principles used in this example are: Camera – to zoom in and out, ZBuffer – to ensure the objects closest in the [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Sep 16
3D example in Silverlight
Talking with my boy Ryan made me start thinking about trying new things in Silverlight…3D. Here is an example of images in Z space. I am working on getting a camera object implemented so you can zoom in and out on the objects.
Sep 09
Video slider control
The updated Slider control in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 burned a number of developers, including myself. I relied heavily on the MouseLeftButtonDown and MouseLeftButtonUp events that are now handled by the Slider. Another feature lacking in the Slider is the ability to show the amount of content downloaded. This is a pretty standard feature of [...]
Sep 05
Styling a Play/Pause button for Silverlight video
You have created a video player, and you want to change a button make a standard Play/Pause button. (Much like YouTube or iTunes). If you are a designer, you probably already know how, however, if you are like the rest of us developers this can be a little frustrating. So, after taking a billion screenshots [...]
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NBC Olympics Video Player
I meant to post about this awhile ago, but I have been quite busy lately. I was fortunate enough to be one of the lead developers at Schematic working on the Silverlight video player for NBCOlympics.com. We worked closely with Microsoft the whole way and it was definitely a great learning experience. Altogether, there were [...]
