Here's a peek at the cover of my forthcoming Silverlight 2 Animation book.
Foundation Silverlight 2 Cover Image
Here's a look at a couple more projects from the book.
The first one is a particle comet.
I've seen a lot of talk over the past year about carousel navigation and how to implement it. There's a couple of good examples out there, but I also included two in my book - a horizontal one as well as a vertical, Rolodex-style one. I've explained how to create them in detail - from layout to control. Here's an example of the kind of control you can build in.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
A carousel is an interesting concept. Unfortunately, for those of us who are susceptible, a rotating control like that can set off an episode of kinetosis (aka simulation sickness or motion sickness).
This problem afflicts 1/3 to 1/2 of the populations, so keep an alternative UI in mind?
October 8th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hi Ken -
Great point! I went with the standard navigation (move the mouse and the carousel spins), but it’s certainly possible to implement something that would be less likely to cause problems for people, such as the button-type navigation Amazon.com has used in the past, where a click rotates only one carousel element at a time. I think this would be fairly easy to implement in the example from my book - the navigation is relatively compartmentalized.
Jeff
October 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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