Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Jesse:  here is what I hope is not to hard and might make a good example.

say I am trying to make a card game.

I have the storyboard for moving a card form a shoe to a player .... so far I am showing only the back of the card.

now I want to have a visual of a card "Flip" from back to font.

now If i had a fancy 3d system I would make a thin 3d rect so I have a front and back face and I would rotate the object and then drop it to the "table"

but Silverlight is not 3d.

so how might one fake that ?

I am sure there must be at least 2 or 3 ways to do it.

visibility, opacity, skew, transform .... where to start?

to go from the back of the card to the front, my guess is that your going to want to display the back of the card, stretch it from 100% to 0% display the front of the card, then strech it from 0%-100%.

Its not perfect, but I think its the best you can do with only using affine transformations which is all that silverlight allows (really what your doing is fliping it using a orthographic projection rather then a perspective projection).

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