by mheydt
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September 2008 11:56
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Over the last few days I've been putting together a comparison of Silverlight and Flex. The result of that I'll publish when I'm done with it, but while doing this I came across a pretty cool flex based spring graph control (and if you read my blog you know I have some sick fascination with them). Source code and all. I'm going to port this to Silverlight over the next few days (I hope). For now, I thought I'd show a few pictures of it in action in flex. The control can be found on adobe and the authors site (Mark Shepherd).
This is a picture of the "roamer demo". The "roamer" allows drilling down into large data sets, only showing a certain amount of attached nodes to the current node. Very useful for drilling into large datasets: (note, click any of these images to be taken to the actual online demo)
The amazon roamer shows how this can be integrated into the amazon web services to navigate across similar products. As you click items, it roams to the item and brings up the similar items...
And the molecule viewer (way cool, and something I'm sure to have my son using once he starts chemistry):
Again, I'm going to port the library, and then potentially these controls over to silverlight and I'll post them here when I'm done.