2D Kaleidoscopes
AnimCercles
Customizable, hypnotic, psychedelic text effect.
Brain Damage
A cool 3D kaleidoscope that has thousands of animated patterns
generated in real time!
FireWorks
Run a fireworks show behind your site title with this handy little applet that accepts a text parameter! Source included!
Firework
Generates an attractive fireworks display.
fireworks
A configurable fireworks simulator. Source included!
Kaleidoscope
Create cool animated kaleidoscope imagery using your own images! Source included.
LineBouncer
LineBouncer is a screensaver type effect that runs behind text
you specify as a parameter!
LineDemo
A cool screensaver type effect. Free!
Line Effects
More than 1000 moving lines, controlled by about 30 controllers. Each controller is responsible for a specific value in the movement-formula.
Manimator
This little applet creates a cool animated star effect.
NewLineDemo
A cool screensaver type effect. Free!
plasma
The free plasma applet can be configured to display text, images, and of course, the psychedelic plasma effect!
Running Rainbow
Free, very configurable animated rainbow banner with source included.
ShapesApplet
A simple applet to illustrate multithreaded programming. It consists of shapes, each running in its own thread that ebb and flow at different rates.
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.
SpiralStar
Six totally different star effects from this one applet! Awesome!
StarFlite
This is a Java applet which creates 3-D star shower on your Web page. You can change the size and shape of the applet to suit your tastes.
StarSim
Looking for a slick space simulation applet? StarSim loads fast, uses double buffering to eliminate flickering, and produces a great effect! And source code is included!
TFCloud
A highly realistic cloud simulation that can be used over an image or with scrolling text.
3D Kaleidoscopes
3DSphere
3DSphere is a cool graphics demo of a 3D rotation sphere; click on the applet to see it go from flat graphics to "3D."
3D Starfield
3D Starfield simulates the effect of stars rushing towards you... or are you
rushing through the stars? Add your own text for a personal touch. Source
included!
galaxy
The FREE galaxy applet from AnfyJava can make your home page out of sight! Fully configurable, with the ability to display messages!
jvb
Java Vectorballs is the author's first attempt at simple Java 3D with 'sprites,' which he converted from his C code. Source code included!
nebula
The free Nebula applet creates ever changing visuals on your Web site. Slick outer space-like special effect!
New on the Java Boutique:
New Review:
Time Management Made Easy with the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
Why not just use the Java timer API? This open source scheduling
API boasts simplicity, ease-of-integration, a well-rounded feature
set, and it's free!
New Applet:
Reverse Complement
Reverse Complement is a simple applet that converts DNA or RNA
sequences into three useful formats.
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Thorough Java resource at the Web Developer's Virtual Library.
ScriptSearch Java
Hundreds of free Java code files to download.
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Customizable portal with online training, FAQs, regular news updates, and tutorials.
