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Perhaps the most interesting
kind of animation that one can create is an animation that deals
with geometric figures only because here we deal with actual
drawing of these geometric figures and the pixel position of each
of them is to be accurately determined to produce the desired
effect. Also while moving them, a good system of ordering is to
be built to see they don't get on top of each other and give rise
to dirty smudging. I felt, that the best way to demonstrate
geometric animation was to write a fully functional Game. Thus I
wrote this Multi Threaded Game of Moving Boxes that functions in
two different game modes. The Game will initially launch an
interesting pattern drawn on 7 * 7 = 49 boxes with a button at
the top to enable switching between the Game Modes. In the
default game mode in which the game starts the boxes from random
directions will smoothly slide in to the empty space within the
group of boxes. On pressing on a moving box with mouse, the
random sliding will stop. The random sliding starts again on
pressing the box that last moved. Whatever be the position, on
pushing the button at the top of this game applet labeled
"Game Mode" the random sliding of the boxes will stop
and now the uset can select only one of the four boxes around the
empty space with hismouse and only this box will smoothly slide
to the space. This way the player can try to restore the original
pattern on the face of the applet. On pushing the Game Mode
button again the game shifts to the default mode from the
position where it was last left and the random slide of boxes in
to the space will begin from this point where it is left by the
user. I feel the player may also like to check his time while
playing this game so whenever the mouse enters the applet region
a clock will show up displaying the animated system time of the
computer whatever be the type of the computer or operating system
or the Time zone of the world in which this applet might be made
to work. This window will stay as long as the mouse pointer stays
inside the applet area and it automatically removes itself when
the mouse pointer exits applet area. The clock window might go
behind the current window when you click mouse on the browser or
the applet to bring it to the top and make it the current window,
but still, this clock will remain active as long as it should
remain that way (you will find it in your task bar). Take the
link below to play this Game and when you want to come back to
this page, push the back button at the top left region of your
browser. WELCOME TO THE
GAME OF MOVING BOXES.
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