{"id":472,"date":"2008-08-19T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/472"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:33:22","slug":"silverlight-particles-by-robby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/472","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight Particles by Robby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nerdplusart.com\/archives\/silverlight-particle-generator\">neat particle generator<\/a> from Robby written using Silverlight 2.0. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"508\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/image7.png\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I share his concern about performance of Silverlight for these types of animations. I&#8217;d really like to see WPF&#8217;s OnRender method exposed (or something similar, like OnDrawTick&#8230; :) ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat particle generator from Robby written using Silverlight 2.0. I share his concern about performance of Silverlight for these types of animations. I&#8217;d really like to see WPF&#8217;s OnRender method exposed (or something similar, like OnDrawTick&#8230; :) ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-7C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":394,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/394","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":0},"title":"Some Simple Silverlight 2.0 Particles, with sticky tape &#8230;.","date":"June 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Live demo here. There are a few demos of using the HTML Canvas element floating around the web (which exists natively in WebKit, Firefox, and Opera and as a custom class using excanvas for Internet Explorer). I was inspired to clone the particle demo using Silverlight (and add a silly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Coding&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image26.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1016,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1016","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":1},"title":"Silverlight vs. Flash vs. Photoshop Text Rendering","date":"March 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Curious about text rendering characteristics between Flash 10, Silverlight 4.0 and Photoshop, I created two small applications, one in Flash CS 4, and one in Visual Studio 2010. 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