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Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

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Re: Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

#61
Couldn't help to share IloGraph (https://www.ilograph.com/) which features an ExportAPI (https://www.ilograph.com/export-api/) but it's rather expensive.

Earlier today I also stumbled with Manim (https://www.manim.community/) which I think can be adapted to your needs.

I hope you find them useful.

Re: Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

#62
I wish I was ready for customers, but I'm making an IDE for board games and have making animations as a medium priority task.

I do however have the 2D tool pulled out which is only lacking the guts since I'm rethinking the suite of things to put in boxes: http://ide.adama-platform.com/solo/

I'm thinking about how to mix a stateful backend (Adama) with animation data driven by "volatile data": https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/03/11/introducing-volati...

Re: Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

#63

This might be more primitive than what you're looking for: When I'm explaining something in a video or a presentation, I'll sometimes use Google Slides to put together a diagram, then duplicate the frames to make adjustments to each. Then I cycle through each quickly to give a very basic sense of animation. Recently, I had a presentation with a diagram showing several components. One slide would have an arrow pointin…

I think Powerpoint has much more powerful animations, which allow one to basically do the same thing but without having to duplicate slides, yielding a much shorter and smoother presentation.

I have this option available. I'm not sure why I didn't think to use that, but I'll give it a shot. Thank you
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