Reflective Surface Example in Flex

I’ve been writing about my Reflection Component a bit this week, and I wanted to post a sample application before moving on. One of the better uses of reflections that I’ve seen is the Cynergy.tv site from Cynergy Systems, which uses a few reflections in combination to give a faux 3D effect. I tried to reproduce this effect in my demo application. It pulls thumbnail images from the onAIR Bus Tour Flickr feed, and displays the selected photo in front. Due to some restrictions on pulling Flickr images without going through the API, you’ll need to download the source to try it out yourself.

An image of the surface demo

Download: SurfaceDemo.zip (4.86 kb)

3 Responses to “Reflective Surface Example in Flex”

  1. Nicolas Noben - IdleTogether editor says:
    July 19, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    Really cool stuff. Keep us posted if you push it further. Thanks.

  2. Brian says:
    November 16, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Hi Ben,

    Does this reflection component you have created have the ability to attach to the object it is reflecting? (i.e., have it automatically attach to the component in an absolute layout instead of using a vbox to make then both line up?)

    Thanks!

  3. Ben says:
    November 16, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    No, you still need to position it just like any other component.