CATCHERS really can attract and fascinate visitors. And can contribute to create an eye-candy web site. The only problem is, that eye catchers loose their magnetic quality immediately, if they are found on some thousand sites. Animated gifs one year ago were eyecatchers, no matter how witty or stupid they were. Today you have to apply a great amount of creativity and phantasy to create a much-admired gif-animation. So let's hope that there will be many more attractive Java applets in the near future, if not, these few outstanding ones soon will bore because of overload. Nevertheless, here trey are: The Truecolor Firework is the best firework I've seen, with a lot of rockets, colors and loud bangs (with audio). The copyright for the Truecolor Firework Applet belongs to Tzu-Tai Liu. You can download it here. Starfield is the applet with streaming stars you already saw at the entrance of our page. The copyright for this Java applet belongs to Will Schenk. You can download it here. Lake is an applet, presenting a photo or painting of your choice together with a mirror, as if reflected in a lake. It was written by David Griffiths. You'll find explications and a download source here. Dorian Gray is a similar one, this example presents someone's eyes. But there are some more possibilities to change image characteristics with this applet. You'll find it here. |