The basic animation technique used by Flash is page flipping. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Proceedings of SITE 2001: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. In Price, Jerry Willis, Dee Anna Davis, Niki Willis, Jerry (eds.). "Creating multimedia web sites in a flash". ^ Hert, Nanette Cafolla, Ralph (2001)."3D Issue launches HTML5 digital mag creator". Touch gesture support – swipe to flip pages in two-page mode
view the pages in a number of different ways, including one page image at a time, scrolling, flipping, or thumbnail views, or OCR text versions of page content. PageTurner is the HathiTrust viewing application. Some experimental studies have shown that many users prefer flip page interfaces for digital publications under certain conditions. An early implementation of the effect was the flipping page effect in Macromedia Flash applications in the late 1990s. For example, flip page effects can be found in the online digital libraries HathiTrust and Internet Archive, and in commercial reading apps such as Paperturn, 3D Issue and Issuu. It is an alternative to scrolling pages.įlip page effects can be found in both online ( web app) and offline application software, and are often created automatically from one of various e-book formats.
Not to be confused with Flip book, the simulation of motion through rapidly flipping pages of sequential images.Ī flip page effect is a software GUI effect that visually shows a representation of a newspaper, book or leaflet as virtual paper pages that appear to be turned manually through computer animation.