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Published inJan 2013
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849687140
Edition1st Edition
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Nick Polyak
Nick Polyak
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Nick Polyak

Nick Polyak is a technology enthusiast who enjoys building software and learning new technologies. For the past six years, Nick worked primarily on Silverlight/WPF projects, and prior to that he worked with C++ and Java. Nick is looking forward to harnessing the new capabilities coming with HTML5 and modern JavaScript libraries. Nick got his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. He did his research in Wavelet based image processing and published a number of papers on the subject. More recently Nick published several articles on codeproject.com some of which (a Prism tutorial and an article on MVVM) became quite popular. Nick is the owner of the AWebPros.com consulting company.
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Cloud simulation


Here we apply the Perlin noise and image manipulation algorithms previously described to obtain a simulation of the moving clouds.

The code is located under the PerlinClouds project.

One can see that the MainPage.xaml file is very simple; it contains only an image to be filled with the clouds.

<UserControl 
   x:Class="PerlinClouds.MainPage"
   xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
   xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
   xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
   xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
   mc:Ignorable="d"
   d:DesignHeight="300"
   d:DesignWidth="400">

    <Grid Width="500"
          Height="400"
          Background="White">
        <!-- image to be filled with moving clouds -->
        <Image x:Name="PerlinNoiseImage"
               Stretch="UniformToFill" />
    </Grid>
</UserControl>

The code-behind located in the MainPage...

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Published in: Jan 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849687140

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Nick Polyak

Nick Polyak is a technology enthusiast who enjoys building software and learning new technologies. For the past six years, Nick worked primarily on Silverlight/WPF projects, and prior to that he worked with C++ and Java. Nick is looking forward to harnessing the new capabilities coming with HTML5 and modern JavaScript libraries. Nick got his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. He did his research in Wavelet based image processing and published a number of papers on the subject. More recently Nick published several articles on codeproject.com some of which (a Prism tutorial and an article on MVVM) became quite popular. Nick is the owner of the AWebPros.com consulting company.
Read more about Nick Polyak