Steve On Java

What can you do in 30 lines of JavaFX?  JFXStudio is running a contest right now to find this out…

http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jfxstudio-challenge-small-is-the-new-big/

I strongly encourage you to give it a try.  So much so that I took a quick stab at putting together a sample myself this evening.  Welcome to the Time Wheel:

Everything is rendered using JavaFX Shape and Text primitives with clever PerspectiveTransform effects applied.  I also made use of an overlay gradient Flooded and Blended on an outer group in order to create the top and bottom shadow giving it a rounded 3d appearance.

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