Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash, and is generating a lot of buzz in the web design and development community. This book shows just what it can do in the right hands, teaching the essential skills for animation, interaction and game creation. It's Silverlight's equivalent of ActionScript 3.0 Animation.
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Jeff Paries is employed as a digital media developer, creating Silverlight applications for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kate, and son, Nicholas.
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Paperback. Condition: New. 1st ed. See the power of Silverlight in actionLearn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2Includes over 180 example Silverlight projectsSilverlight is a phenomenally powerful animation tool, but few people know how to unlock its potential. Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation gives you the keys to all of that power.Itcovers the basics of animation-that is, Silverlight's storyboards andanimations, which are used to provide interactivity to Silverlightapplications. You'll take an in-depth look at double, point, and coloranimations. You'll also learn the difference between linear, spline, anddiscrete keyframes, and how they affect your objects as they move.Butit doesn't stop there. You'll go well beyond those simpletimeline-based animations and learn how to create purely code-basedanimations. You'll use vectors to make objects move and bounce offboundaries and each other. You'll explore particle systems, kinematics,and collisions. You'll also learn how to use trigonometry to animateobjects and simulate 3D motion in a 2D environment. The essentialtrigonometry required to create complex motion is simplified andexplained through a series of fascinating and fun examples that can beincorporated into your own applications, games, and experiments.Whetheryou're already familiar with Silverlight and you want to learn how toopen it up, a Flash developer interested in expanding your skill set, ora web developer looking to take the next step into rich interactiveapplication development, this book will bring you up to speed onSilverlight 2 and show you what it can do. From techniques for creatingframe-based animations to learning how to simulate 3D in a 2Denvironment, there is something here to satisfy anyone's appetite foranimation and interactivity. Seller Inventory # LU-9781430215691
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Paperback. Condition: New. 1st ed. See the power of Silverlight in actionLearn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2Includes over 180 example Silverlight projectsSilverlight is a phenomenally powerful animation tool, but few people know how to unlock its potential. Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation gives you the keys to all of that power.Itcovers the basics of animation-that is, Silverlight's storyboards andanimations, which are used to provide interactivity to Silverlightapplications. You'll take an in-depth look at double, point, and coloranimations. You'll also learn the difference between linear, spline, anddiscrete keyframes, and how they affect your objects as they move.Butit doesn't stop there. You'll go well beyond those simpletimeline-based animations and learn how to create purely code-basedanimations. You'll use vectors to make objects move and bounce offboundaries and each other. You'll explore particle systems, kinematics,and collisions. You'll also learn how to use trigonometry to animateobjects and simulate 3D motion in a 2D environment. The essentialtrigonometry required to create complex motion is simplified andexplained through a series of fascinating and fun examples that can beincorporated into your own applications, games, and experiments.Whetheryou're already familiar with Silverlight and you want to learn how toopen it up, a Flash developer interested in expanding your skill set, ora web developer looking to take the next step into rich interactiveapplication development, this book will bring you up to speed onSilverlight 2 and show you what it can do. From techniques for creatingframe-based animations to learning how to simulate 3D in a 2Denvironment, there is something here to satisfy anyone's appetite foranimation and interactivity. Seller Inventory # LU-9781430215691
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Condition: New. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, before moving on to more advanced topics. With full code examples for all types of animation and interaction, this is an invaluable resource. Num Pages: 467 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UMPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 754. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781430215691