MIUI 12 Animations: Insistence and Innovation
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Starting from MIUI 5, Xiaomi has been trying to build world-class system animations. Animations were specially introduced as a highlight at the launch of MIUI 6. The evolution of MIUI witnessed the transformation of system animations. The latest MIUI update brings a huge revamp to system animations and integrates a refreshed interface for better user experience.
Behind MIUI animations are strenuous efforts from the team. With the design philosophy inspired by nature, a bottom-up technological restructure was constructed, integrating a whole set of animation engine, render engine and illustration engine that form the Mi Light Cone Animation Framework. Under this structure, the animations in MIUI 12 are more lifelike and fluent, the G2 continuity curve is made more seamlessly fitted with the hardware and the effect of real-time blur is achieved.
Blurring operation is another difficulty. There is little support for the blurring effect in the Android system, let alone partial blurring. However, a strong structure support is essential for a superb visual experience. The writing of the blurring operation cost the team another several months.
Normally, motion mode on the screen is obtained through coordinate calculation, the result of which is rather blunt. On the basis of a self-developed physical engine, MIUI 12 managed to restore the reality, with icons moving like real objects and every detail becoming tangibly real. Animations in MIUI 12 cover all applications and scenarios to form a lifelike system experience, which subverts people’s cognition of what Android-based animations can be.
The dynamic effect of the Weather app is lively, yet two months before the launch, it was still far from satisfactory. It is a huge project demanding collaborations from the design team and R&D team. On the one hand, designers kept adjusting the visual presentation to make it more vivid and likelike. On the other hand, engineers faced the challenges to achieve it through technical ways. It is exactly the combination of insistence and innovation that make for the final visual feast of animations in MIUI 12.
Source: MIUI Blog
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My second app! This is a small app to appreciate the beauty of pendulum waves.
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Pendulum Chaos is a simulation of a pendulum wave. By setting up a series of pendulums of carefully selected lengths, a pendulum wave effect is generated.
GET IT HERE!
For the fellow geeks out there, the basic equation I used is theta(t)=theta0*cos(t/sqrt(L/g)). The pendulum lengths are calculated with L(i)=g(1/(2PI*I(i)))^2.
You can also find cool videos of actual pendulum waves on youtube! These videos are also what prompted me to write this app.
How to use?
It's all pretty self-explanatory. You control the number of pendulums, initial swing angle, overall speed, pendulum size and colours.
I even allowed swing angles of up to 360 degrees to get effects impossible in an experimental setup.
Experiment with them yourself to get some really nice graphics!
Tip: Use similar shades of color, perhaps of light and dark brightness levels, and allow some transparency to your colors, then slow down the simulation speed to really appreciate the wave effect.
If you have any questions, you can email me at [email protected] or post on my blog woolfloats.blogspot.com, which I am embarrassed to admit I am sorely neglecting...
I have also written another app called NTW Text Editor which you can download from the Market. It allows the editing of files with no file size limit, and will also bookmark all your editing progress in every file. If you liked Pendulum Chaos, pls do take a look at NTW too ;-)
v1.3 is out!
Changes from v1.0
- Fixed the lack of proper launcher icons.
- Autosaves your settings upon exiting the app,
- Blurrify mode for really dreamy looking graphics
- Shorter pendulums are now smaller in size than longer pendulums,
- Tweaked the pendulum lengths to make better use of available screen space.
Sooooo pwweeetty
v1.4
- Colors are now calculated using pendulum length and swing angle combined.
- Even more dreamy effect by making the blurriness dependent on swing angle and length as well!
Ahem, pls help me share my vid? I'm hoping to make it go viral
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Do you like snowboarding? Then this game is for you. Already soon on Google Play and Apple Store. We will open alpha test for our Google+ community for Android users soon. Join to us and invite your friends. Now you can already see our trailer. Here we publish beta version but a little later. Thanks.
Features.
• Physics of the character's movement realized without the application of force ahead. The character is moving under its own weight in accordance with the topography and friction on the surface of the board.
• The huge by the standards of mobile platforms locations, each of which consists of several routes.
• High quality graphic content. At the high-end devices, you can get the best picture quality with the use of post-effects! The game can also be adjusted to weak devices.
• The unique animation system includes 55 animations, 25 of whom work at the same time. In conjunction with the use of inverse kinematics on the legs is achieved tremendous character realism movement snowboarder.
• Jumps, spins, tricks combined with the ease of management.
• The various job locations passage: the best time, save money deposit, to perform certain tricks, slalom, with the passage of a certain route, descent to the high-speed range.
• 15 snowboards, each of which has its own characteristics for the descent.
Btw, we use Unity3D for development
We're almost ready to release alpha version of our game Now you can invite your friends to our community that they can try our game too
We released alpha-version https://plus.google.com/100015729875921729601/posts/hEnvGyXnQvX. Enjoy
We have published new version 1.0.5 alpha on Google Play.
1. A new location Europa, now we disabled Alaska (it will be allowed in release).
2. A new character (female).
3. Optimized sound and music. Music is now playing anywhere in the game. New tracks.
4. Stabilization of the physics of motion.
5. Optimization of RAM.
6. Completely rewritten jump from a helicopter.
7. Numerous bug fixes.
8. Improved mechanism for determining the correct position of the board at landing.
Hi, just wanted to brag a little about a new wallpaper I made.
It uses a little of demoscene-like graphics techniques to generate images and animations that I personally enjoy a lot - but I'm yet unsure whether I'm the only one.
For those graphics-coding-inclined: it makes a heavy use of pixel shaders, basically computing distance functions for combinations of simple shapes (http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctions.htm) and then texturing the surface with these shapes replicated. Although the word 'texturing' is used in a loose sense here, since there is no geometry of the tunnels and grids that you can see in the app - everything is happening in pixel shaders, issued on quads covering all or part of the screen and the 3D-like surfaces are obtained through coordinate transformations.
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.madscientist.shape
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As you can see on the image, the customization options allow to obtain very different looks, so I decided to release a series of free wallpapers each showing one distinctive preset from the full app. The first one is Neon Tunnel:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.madscientist.shape.neon
Let me know what you think about it.
I'm happy to answer any technical questions. I'll probably do a technical write-up on my blog soon, whether anyone's interested or not.
Cool wallpaper! I am glad that Magic Fluids and Waterfloo now have a successor. Will there be a regular app gui in the future?
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Cool wallpaper! I am glad that Magic Fluids and Waterfloo now have a successor. Will there be a regular app gui in the future?
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Thanks! There might be. I thought about making a separate app that would allow the user to control the shape-morphing process and design the images for yourself. But if the wallpaper doesn't take off, I might just slap the regular app mode on top of the wallpaper and call it a day.
There is some activity in your app's thread, in case you missed it.
I'm also a fan of your apps! The patterns in the wallpaper look beautiful. I want to program sth similar, and play around with it.
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Thanks! There might be. I thought about making a separate app that would allow the user to control the shape-morphing process and design the images for yourself. But if the wallpaper doesn't take off, I might just slap the regular app mode on top of the wallpaper and call it a day.
There is some activity in your app's thread, in case you missed it.
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With a regular app gui you could maybe offer other ways to play around with the shapes .
A 3D volume renderer visualizing shapes would be cool. But that might be computationally too expensive for Android devices.
- Lovely Wallpaper, koi fish pond, 3D rendered in OpenGL 2.0, has amazing pure water effects, is fully interactive and one of the best wallpaper available for free. Swipe the screen to get the water to ripple, swish and swirl in any direction. The water responds to your touch by moving fast and allows you to make your own unique patterns.
- Beside, with many background/theme, creatures, plan and other beatiful effects, you can mix them together to make the beautiful, extremely realistic fish pond .
- If you feel boring with exists background/theme that we provide, you can choose your favourite image from your side and set it as background.
- If all of those things don't let you make you happy, dont worry, because we allow you to combine between your picture and our theme to export the most beautiful background that you've never seen before.
- It only uses battery when the screen is ON. Once the screen is turned off, the app STOPS CONSUMING power.
- And many other interesting things that waiting for you to explore , and trust us, we will not let you down.
- We also will support you to fix bug as soon as possible
- Last but not less important, our app totally FREE and NO LIMITATION. You dont have to wait or spend any penny to get all app features :fingers-crossed:.
- In order to improve our wallpaper for users, we have added advertisements in the preview mode and settings page. We hope that you will understand and keep supporting us like you always have. We will consider about removing ads feature in next version :good:.
Enjoy yourself :silly:!
Link app :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doan.dinh.lovelywallpaper
Barcode and screenshot:
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Up for new day
App has almost 1000 downloads, thank you for your support
Up for weekend
Up up, battery saver utility, auto cool down device, quick charge will be integrated in version 2.0
Up for new day ^^
Hello Everyone,
I have been developing this little app for many months now, and I would like to present it to a wider audience
It is still in open testing, but after correcting a few bugs and adding a little more content, I'd like to release it in V1.
You can find details about the app on the GitHub page.
This app generated live wallpapers based on some themes that I designed and coded myself. All arts and events in this app are original content.
I initially wanted to recreate the concept of the Forest Live Wallpaper by Kaka, but the idea was to push the idea further with more scenes and elements.
An image is worth a thousand words, so find here some screenshots from my phone:
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So, what is this about?
This little app is meant to make one travel to different lands, where the sky is always blue and countless stars twinkle in the night. Every day, the Sun and the Moon rise and set at times based on your location, illuminating the scene in soft pastel colors. Through the year, the amount of snow and the color of the scene will change based on the season.
This app is 100% ad free, and your data stays on your device. You can use this app as a light/dark automatic mode. The battery consumption is optimized and you shouldn't notice any difference compared to a standard wallpaper.
Just relax, choose your wallpaper and start the journey!
Dowload the app on Google Play StoreWhat do you sign for?
No ads! This is a feel good app, so no ugly banners or annoying popup windows
No locked/premium content at the moment - only a tipping system for the generous souls (Via the Google Play Store)
The app can use the device coarse location to determine its local sunrise, sunset and Moon times
Using this feature triggers a web request to weather-api.com
No personal data is stored/used in any way by this app, other than to provide sunrise/sunset times
Low battery consumption - never mentioned in any Android report. No significant impact on battery life noticed by the users
I have many ideas to implement, such as:
Different landscapes and scenes - 2 different scenes implemented
More color varieties
Details like the clouds, and so much more
Weather system - in a far future
Let me know what you think, and if you are interested in this project, don't hesitate to visit the GitHub page and download the app!
Cheers!