Silverlight Games 101

I get a huge kick out of other people using things that I’ve created and especially when they do things that I haven’t even imagined and take it to the next level. Adam Kinney posted about doing a torn photo effect with the image blitting methods that I contributed to the open source WriteableBitmapEx project on codeplex. For those not familiar with image blitting, it is when you copy a bitmap into another bitmap as fast as you can.

What’s especially cool about this post is that he was reproducing a tutorial previously done in Flash and it would have been much more difficult without these methods. Even more exciting is that Adam has contributed some extra blending modes that he needed back into the project so everyone can benefit from them. I took at look at the original Flash tutorial and it seems more complicated than the Silverlight version but I don’t know enough about Flash to have more than a general feeling about it.

Here is the final result of Adam’s sample:

Pretty cool and it will take any image and do some random and dynamic effects to make it look torn and crumpled.

Adam’s original post is here: http://adamkinney.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/image-blitting-in-silverlight-with-writeablebitmapex/