Effects add some visual sugar to your scenes, in the sense of “make it gloomy,” “add some shadow,” “apply some blurring,” and so on. Animation can be used for the same purpose, but depending on the functionality your application is supposed to provide, it may add a time dimension to the program. Think of computer animation or sound visualization. In this chapter, we talk about what JavaFX has to offer in these two fields.
About Effects
Effects can be applied to any Node and its descendants via
where ...
