I just dug up a whole bunch of custom panels that I wrote, complete with a nifty demo application I built way back in 2010 (when WPF was all the rage). It’s pretty fun stuff actually. I posted all the code on GitHub here.

Diagonal Panel

This one is pretty basic, it’s essentially a slightly modified version of Stack Panel. I didn’t implement any properties to customize rendering as I thought it was pretty useless in terms of practical purposes. However, it is a good one to look at if you are curious about how the code works.

Circle Panel

I provide a few properties that allow you to customize the rendering.

• Radius: Changes with circle’s radius (in pixels)
• Item Rotate: Degrees to rotate each item
• Allow Item Rotate: turns on / off item rotation

Here is what Item Rotation turned on looks like:

Sine Panel

• Start Angle: Changes the offset point of the sine function
• Amplitude: Changes the height of the sine curve
• Frequency: Changes how many curves there are within one length
• Length: Changes how many degrees to include in the length
• Item Rotation: Degrees to rotate an item
• Allow Item Rotation: turns on / off item rotation

Item Rotation creates an almost double helix type affect:

Carousel Panel

This panel is very similar to the circle panel, in fact, when I wrote it I implemented the Circle Panel first and built from there.

• Radius X: Controls the width of the ellipse
• Radius Y: Controls the height of the ellipse
• Scalar: Controls how quickly items scale down in size

Fermat’s Spiral Panel

With this panel I implemented using Fermat’s Spiral formula.

• Angle: Theta
• Scalar: Radius from the center

You can play around with the angle to change the shape that Fermat’s spiral takes pretty drastically.

I’ve included a few notable values for theta that produced distinctive renderings:

Name	Theta
Golden Angle	137.5
Wave	72.1
Snake	78.463
Uniform Lines	75.9218
Comma	69.3
3 Way Curved	60.67
3 Way	67.027
Star Fish	118.111
Archimedean	119.7