Is an animated display of an internal combustion engine. There are 3 different types of engines that are selectable by holding down the mouse button. The 3 different types are Flat4, Inline4 and V6. The default is the Inline4.
This program uses 3 animated gif images from a article on HowStuffWorks.com to and measures the current frame rate that can be displayed.
Version 1.1 is avaiable here [L1 ].
# TkEngine Program V1.1 # by Satoshi Imai # 1.1, 07-Jul-2002 modified by Fuhito Suguri # http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/s-imai/tcltk/tkengine.html # Based on a article by Marshall Brain @ HowStuffWorks.com # http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine2.htm
MPJ A reformated version with the frame/sec in the title bar and scale to fit the PocketPC is available here [L2 ]. Note you still need the 3 images from the above version: flat4.gif, inline4.gif, v6.gif.
Here are the shots of it running on my Dell Axim (arm 400Mhz)
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And here a picture of this code running on my desktop (1GHz ~ notice the frame rate differance in frame rates).