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Microsoft.NETGreat Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Applications: British Library Turning the Pages
Author: devx.com |
Published: 29th Jan 2008 |
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Add CommentFiled in: Microsoft NETEnter a fantastic new application, developed in partnership by the British Library and Armadillo Systems. The British Library digitised the pages of 15 of their most valuable works and created "Turning the Pages", a browser-based WPF application that enables you to interact with these books in a virtual environment remotely. You can open a book on your desktop and by clicking on a page, turn it in a 3D environment. You can zoom or pan around each of the pages. (Some secret shortcuts: use the mouse wheel to zoom, shift+drag to rotate the book, ctrl+drag to pan around the scene. Use the settings dialogue to open more than one book simultaneously, and then right-click on the desktop to add new books. Be aware that adding multiple books starts to impose a considerable load on the graphics hardware, so you'll need plenty of video RAM if you want to use this feature.)
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