On 2008 March 28, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Either in Etoys or Scratch, a script for that kind of animation would look like a long, serial chain of commands, and would not be too pleasant to edit or make.
There have been discussions to make a tool for making timeline-based animations. One could imagine to start from something that EventTheatre offers (press "Record" in EV, do something, hit escape key and press the double-ring button).
However, filling details that makes such a tool (i.e., an animation making tool) useful would require a lot of work. Frame-based animation in Etoys doesn't really scale, and adjusting the rotation centers of frames to make the animation look right is hard, etc. Also, our 2D scaling and rotation isn't fast enough to show that on XO.
Yoshiki, thanks for explaining
BTW, the "LearniT" animations are fun to watch and have hip style, but to see that some people think they are good for "education" (implies that they are informative and teaching something) gives me a strange impression.
Oh I agree with you, absolutely. The animation is very cool but not very useful as explanation how to use mesh networking, in fact confusing at least to me. I was talking about the general idea of hijacking the interest in things Flash and convert it to eToys. As far as i know, Flash is beeing taught and used in North American High Schools in "computer technology" type classes, presumably for it's popularity and coolness factor - would be nice to have that railroad available :)
Thanks Milan
"How the mesh network works?" and the animation essentially tells you that "the middle man relays". Do you need one minute animation to convey the four words idea?
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