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Java Scaling Animation

Here's an applet which scales an image. The applet takes advantage of the following java elements:

Double buffering
Using Media Tracker to ensure the images are downloaded before the animation begins.
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Original Image	Scaled Image Java Applet

View the source here (note the file name has a .txt extension so you can view it in your browser).

By the way, yes I know there seems to be a bug when the applet shuts down, I just haven't gotten around to fixing it (and probably won't).