The powerful animation capabilities are available if your using WPF.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752312.aspx[
^]. If you need scientific-oriented approach, this is even better, because you can animate one or more of very different characteristic at a time, such as parameters of transofmation matrix, position and orientation of separate objects, etc. Remember, there are several different levels of animations, starting from your own rendering (very low-level and non-typical) to a very hight level. The most flexible level is somewhere in the middle, when you put objects on a canvas and animate the object properties.
—SA