If it ain't broke, make it better.
Read the Post that goes with this Demo over here
Internal Combuston Engine Wiki
I decided to try out Expression Blend 2.5 beta by creating a four stroke engine animation. A screen capture
This is quite awesome
Very nicely done! The traditional diagram of a 4 stroke engine needs 4 pictures. But with the animation you made, it would be just as clear or even clearer with 1.
This is the first thing that I've seen that has given me a healthy respect for SilverLight and Expression. Too bad it sounds like it was so hard to do. Hope you can give Microsoft some advice.
Raj, my daughters (5 & 9) are doing science in school (we home-school) and they were as asking how an engine works.
I made a simple note to myself to find an example of pistons at work.
Today in exploring Silverlight examples / demos, I found your engine.
My daughters and I totally like this example!
My 9 year-old even made the observational comment that pistons 1 and 4 were spinning together and 2 and 3 were spinning together opposite 1 and 4; something I didn't notice!
Wow, Raj, your example is more than an example, it is a great teaching tool, too! Thank you!!
hey man this is the sickest thing ive eveer seene in my whole life i love engines and i also kknow alote about them so this is really interresting and the way you controle it is sooo cool you shold defenetly make a six stroke engine animation thing!!!
Awesome animation..
an RPM counter would be cool, I'm always interested to see how fast everything runs at a certain RPM
Mr Raj, This is a wonderful creation. Much Mmuch much better than howstuffworks.com keep up this kind of illustration. Long life...
Regards
Sudipta