Back in the early days of computer gaming one may remember the Comanche flight simulator. The simple 3D engine used for this and other games is based on a so called voxel rendering engine. Searching the Internet for this technique I found this nice article from Alex Champandard and this one from Codermind. Putting two and two together, again I paid attention to the WriteableBitmap class that is part of Silverlight 3.
To emphasize the .NET Open Space 2009 that is starting tomorrow here in Leipzig, I used a special background texture for the sky. Just press the start button and use W-A-S-D of your keyboard to fly around the terrain. I will clean up the sources after the upcoming and put it here on my blog. So stay tuned.
Playing around with the new WriteableBitmap class in Silverlight 3 I remembered the time I started with VGA programming in assembler. After a quick research I found this simple algorithm to visualize the effect. I added the interactivity via mouse click and keyboard input to create new fire initiators.
The source is available for free: FireEffect.zip (12 kB)
Another small sample using dynamic generated animations in Silverlight.
The source are available for free: TunnelAnimation.zip (7 kB)
Some more photos to be used as wallpaper:
After a long run on a bumpy road our Trian.Whiteboard finally found it's way to the MSDN Code Gallery. Even if Microsoft Silverlight 3 is knocking on our doors this smart sample is a good start to get in touch with this technology. It shows how to use XAML to create a Rich Internet Application that communicates with a Windows Communication Foundation service in the background.
Check it out: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/whiteboardPlay with it: http://playground.pixelplastic.de
The results of a short trip through the dark park.
As I saw the following short film (due to a tweet of zumpe) I remembered the TiltShift style photographs I wrote about months ago. And now I'm thinking of buying such a lens. I like it.
Are those the first signs of spring?
Shot last week, walking around in the park.
