[Xerte] Re: Flashless Animation

[Smith, Bradley]

I haven’t gotten to use either in depth, but if you’re just looking for a way to create animations that doesn’t require Flash, there are a couple of tools I’ve been meaning to mess around with:

http://www.synfig.org/cms/  (according to the docs, it can export animated gif, mpg movies, and more)

http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/ (can export to animated gif or (it claims) flash, but doesn’t seem to be actively maintained. However, it’s web-based and open-source, so…)

—Brad

On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:20 AM, John Horton <John.Horton at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Several (perhaps all) of the simulations at the URL quoted have sliders to control the parameters of the physical situation being simulated. A lot of pedagogical benefit lies in these – at least, it does for those students prepared to use them and think hard about what they’re observing. This means the simulations almost certainly have to be written with code.
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> I’ve started to wonder how much things like Mathematica can be used for this sort of demonstration. Although I’ve never used Mathematica, I presume it can produce the simulation and animation; also the sliders.
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> This
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> http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/IntroductionToManipulate.html
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> seems to demonstrate the sort of controls we’re interested in.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 10 March 2015 13:29
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Flashless Animation
>  
> I’ve been thinking down the same lines, though for simple, abstract stuff, some of the js libraries might be sufficient? I’d prefer to use something open if I can, and even if I were using Flash, I’d prefer to do some of it with code, rather than endless nested timelines, and actionscript doesn’t export to a movie?
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> I was just wondering how others are doing this sort of thing these days. We do get these bespoke animation type requests from time to time
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 10 March 2015 13:20
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Flashless Animation
>  
> Just wondering if the current/quickest workflow is to use Flash you could use Flash to create the animations then record the small clips to either video or animated gif and then build the sequencing in Xerte. Perhaps even using Fay's new Media Lesson page.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 10 March 2015 12:41
> To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
> Subject: [Xerte] Flashless Animation
>  
> We’ve had a request to create some materials like this: animation of atoms / particles and so on.
> http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/diffusion/index.php
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> I don’t want to use Flash particularly, but I could do if necessary and export movies to play; any alternatives to Flash for this sort of thing?
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