This has been around for awhile now.
Impress.js demo - presentation program
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Re: Impress.js demo - presentation program
#22While this is truly, ahem , impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.
It's a framework for creating presentations and what's linked here is only a demo for showing the functionality. If you want to see real life (yeah, "real life") demos, look under "Presentations" on this page: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/wiki/Examples-and-demos
Re: Impress.js demo - presentation program
#23While this is truly, ahem , impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.
I tend to agree. I have tried using impress to create presentations that were spatial, focusing less on the dizzying animations and more on the actual content... But Impress isn't set up for it. Impress is really designed to move the camera about a scene and moving the camera is the only operation it supports well.
You'll notice the user examples from that wiki are mostly the same basic idea... because it's quite difficult to make something more complex with impress out of the box. YOu can see a few pull requests that try to make this easier, like the one that supports subslides (i.e. a slide transition that doesn't cause a camera movement).
Re: Impress.js demo - presentation program
#24While this is truly, ahem , impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.
I agree. Many of the transitions in the demo presentations, while fancy, take too long to finish. They don't add anything to the presentation.
If you're going to use effects, make sure they actually contribute to or complement the content.
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#25USE FAMO.US
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#26I love the concept of impress.js and started making a presentation for the agency I work for: http://kitchdigital.com/about/ Warning, there is a lot of zooming around and you might feel sick.
The only thing I hate about pages like this is that they hijack the browser with their fake history. When I press the back button from this page I want to go back to your homepage, or back to HN. I don't want to have to click it 20 times to get back to where I was. Playing the presentation in reverse doesn't even make sense so it's not a use case you should design for.
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#27While this is truly, ahem , impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.
I tend to agree. I have tried using impress to create presentations that were spatial, focusing less on the dizzying animations and more on the actual content... But Impress isn't set up for it. Impress is really designed to move the camera about a scene and moving the camera is the only operation it supports well. You'll notice the user examples from that wiki are mostly the same basic idea... because it's quite dif…
I think the only place for these presentations is where you're not physically giving the talk. In most cases, simple cuts or dissolves between slides is fine, since like you said, none of this actually adds much to the presentation.
Re: Impress.js demo - presentation program
#28This library has been around a while and is pretty compact and easy to use. A better page of examples (user-contributed) is here: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/wiki/Examples-and-demos
Shameless plug, my git talk using impress: http://sejeff.github.com/git-talk/
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#29I started this little project several months ago based on impress.js
should still work in chrome/safari.
Re: Impress.js demo - presentation program
#30While this is truly, ahem , impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.
It's a framework for creating presentations and what's linked here is only a demo for showing the functionality. If you want to see real life (yeah, "real life") demos, look under "Presentations" on this page: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/wiki/Examples-and-demos
Saw the first one under presentations - http://bartaz.github.com/meetjs/css3d-summit/#/title
Really distracting and I wouldn't want to attend the presentation, like the comments above mention.