Silverlight Animation using Mathematica

Keehong Song

Pusan National University,
Pusan, Korea

Abstract

Silverlight is a web application technology from Microsoft that in many aspects is an alternative to Adobe Flash. It has a definite edge over Flash for certain types of animations using Mathematica. Notably, when it comes to doing time-based animations often needed in scientific applications, Flash technology—despite its power and popularity—is inherently awkward and unstable. On the other hand, this is Silverlight's forte. Moreover, Silverlight's approach is often simpler so that less technically-inclined educators can adapt with facility, whereas a Flash solution demands some degree of learning.

This presentation discusses the basic ideas of connecting Silverlight with Mathematica and then gives a set of demos of Mathematica animations in which the WPF technology has the edge over the Flash solution.