Advanced Animation: Animating 15,000 Visuals in Silverlight

In my last post I showed a quick summary of a graphic-intensive dashboard that I helped out with.  I also mentioned that there are a lot of posts out there dogging SL and WPF rendering performance.  But if we get creative with some of the built-in controls SL has to offer we can get some pretty good drawing perf.  I wanted to elaborate on some of the techniques I used to eek-out every bit of perf