I've recently picked up a great book called Flash Math Creativity . I been inspired by some of the techniques it outlines and have played around with similar ideas in WPF. The exercise has been a fruitful one, in that I'm making some pleasing computer art while also learning about the differences between Action Script animation and WPF animation. The first one I played with is flowers, inspired by the work of Glen Rhodes , which is actually featured on the cover of the book. You can see the results here and download the code here . The first flower, which has no animation, is pretty simple. I just create 125 rectangles with a fill using a DrawingBrush I created in Blend. I place each of the petals on the "stage", which in the case is a Grid . I use Grid instead of Canvas so that I get the goodness of the WPF layout engine for free without having to handle any positioning of the rectangles. I then tranform the rotation and scale of each one to create the flower effect. I also swap the ZIndex
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