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Visual Effects

Weather Effects
Different kinds of rain and snow effects

Latest Weather Effect: Mother Nature
This is an applet that simulates a nature setting. It can rain or snow over the picture. When it snows you can make it accumulate on the picture by changing the parameters and if it rains you can change the color of the objects that fall.

Image Animation
Take a .gif or .jpg and animate it.

Latest Image Animator: VmaxPhoto Applet
Need to add image editing capabilities for your site functionality? The this applet is right for you!

Image Manipulation
Take an image and warp it, twist it, and wave it.

Latest Image Manipulator: Twist
This is a great looking 3d twist effect applet. It comes complete with lots of shaders and shapes.

Slideshows and Photo Albums
Put your photos online and let your audience sit back and watch.

Latest Slideshows/Photo Albums: Fader Applet
Fader is an applet that fades your images with a cool effect.

Interactive Animation
These applets give the user control over the animation/manipulation.

Latest Visual Effect: Slideshow and Editor Applet
This applet is used to view pictures and can change their color, contrast, and even view slideshows of your images.

Sequential Animation
These applets can take the place of animated .gif files, and often can do much more.

Latest Sequential Animator: Galaxy
"Galaxy" displays a rotating, three-dimensional galaxy. It comes with plenty of parameters for changing the appearance competely. Cool!

Kaleidoscopes
2D and 3D randomized vector animations.

Latest Kaleidoscope: Sparky
Sparky displays the shape of an image using animated, glittering stars. Both the image and the shape of the star can be modified. Because of the complexity of the visual effect, the applet precalculates the images of the animation into the memory.

Aquariums
Not just fish! All sorts of randomized bitmap animations.

Latest Aquarium: Pets/Aquarium
This is a cute image applet that shows an aquarium over text.

Painters
Your chance to be expressive.

Latest Painter: eGrafitti
A simple internet drawing game. The game allows you to draw with others at the same time, and you can come back later and see what has been drawn. The applet connects to a server application which sends what you're drawing and what other people are drawing to each webpage connected to it.

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