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Mapping MediaElement onto a Sphere with WPF by David Sackstein

In my previous post I created a 3D cube, mapped a MediaElement onto each of its faces and animated the camera around the cube. In this post, I will replace the 3D cube with a sphere and wrap the video onto the surface of the sphere. I omit the camera animation for simplicity, but you can add it back, of course. You can download the source code here . In order to create the sphere mesh I made use of Charles Petzold’s elegant SphereMeshGenerator. In Chapter 6 of his book (3D Programming for Windows...

A Custom Animation Class - Point3DAnimationUsingPath by David Sackstein

For 2D graphics WPF provides three classes for animating points: PointAnimation (for linear interpolation), PointAnimationUsingKeyFrames and PointAnimationUsingPath. For 3D graphics WPF provides only two: Point3DAnimation (for linear interpolation) and Point3DAnimationUsingKeyFrames. There is no built in class for animating points over a path in three dimensions. In this post I will show you a custom animation class that I wrote to partially fill that gap. In the next post I will put it to use in...