Exploring Java's Animator Applet

Bowed Electricity animation and source code.

Bowed Electricity

This site, which is maintained by John Schussler, uses a simple sprite animation to approximate electricity across a bow string. Note that these graphics are not using the transparency attribute that GIF 89A affords, since the string must be erased as the sprite passes over it.

In addition to the bow itself, these are the only graphics used in this animation:

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Bowed Electricity animation--Graphic Files

Here are the graphics used in the Bowed Electricity animation applet:

The current Bowed Electricity site can be found at http://www.digitalrain.net/bowed/.