SIsiddontang·Aug 1, 2022Submission
Excalidraw-claymate: based on Excalidraw to create stop motion animations
2 points · Open discussiondai-shi
excalidraw-claymate
TypeScript2022–2022
dai-shi / excalidraw-claymate
excalidraw-claymate
A tool based on Excalidraw to create stop motion animations and slides.
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A tool based on Excalidraw to create stop motion animations and slides.
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| Mar 7 | 2022-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 14 | 2022-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2022-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2022-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 4 | 2022-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 11 | 2022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 18 | 2022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 25 | 2022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2 | 2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 9 | 2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 16 | 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 23 | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 30 | 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 6 | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13 | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 20 | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 27 | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 4 | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 11 | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 18 | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesAsk HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?
I'm using Mermaid, Excalidraw and PlantUML diagrams to explain and document what I'm working on and they work great and are a lot better than screens of prose, but I've become aware that something is missing: motion.
Animation brings a whole lot more to explanations, making simple explanations of how request coalescing works easy to understand, token simulations [0] through to helping explain concepts like Fresnel lenses [1]. Embedding them into GitHub READMEs, tweets and documentation would be awesome.
Google do it to illustrate posts (e.g. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-naviga...).
I found Excalidraw Claymate [2] but the stop motion approach with no tweening support makes it painful to create animations where circles move from place to place. There's also Manim [3] but I think this is more for maths.
Adobe Flash u
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sed to be the go-to; what do you reach for when you want to illustrate a concept with an animated diagram?
0. https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-token-simulation
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576688
2. https://github.com/dai-shi/excalidraw-claymate
3. https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim