Animated Presentations Using SVG

Inspired by work on work on non-traditional presentations in KDE's Karbon (part of Calligra), Aditya Bhatt set out to create a purely client-side tool for creating animated presentations in the browser. Based upon svg-edit and using Sozi, the initial results are pretty cool. His weblog post documents the process — the choice of SVG versus html5's canvas, Javascript instead of SMIL, etc. highlighting the challenges faced even today with different browsers offering wildly different levels of support for each web technology. The sourcecode for Awwation can be had over at Github.

Comments

Animated presentations

[Joehonkie]

Animation is something that should be used minimally in presentations, if even at all. I have seen very few presentations where the animations were to anyone's benefit.

Re:Animated presentations

[professionalfurryele]

Depends on why you are using the animation. Every element of a presentation should have a reason to be there otherwise it is a distraction. Those stupid cube rotation things that Keynote does is annoying and distracting in most presentations because it has me thinking about rotations and not about whatever chemical composition or algorithm or whatever is being discussed. So are the silly wipes people use in PowerPoint.
This type animation is probably going to be used in a stupid and distracting way in most presentations. However I think it can be considerably more useful than the cube or wipes because this kind of animation can be used to place related concepts in spatial relation to one another. Imagine a presentation on a multi-stage algorithm where one moves up and down a flowchart constantly reminded of the relations between different operations in the algorithm due to their spatial relations on the slide. I suspect if this is used that way, it could be a powerful tool.