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A lot of presentation programs has animation. One good thing about animation is that the movement signals a slide change. A lot of times, I notice when I follow along with a song while someone is presenting, if my eyes move at the same time that the screen changes, then I don’t realize it’s changed, and I’m lost for a bit. Animations solves that, and as long as they’re not so crazy that they distract from the purpose of presenting content, I think animations can be good.
I think Clutter would be a good option to create animations. It has some built in stuff, and uses OpenGL to render these. I’ve just looked at some of the docs and stuff, so I don’t quite get it all yet, but the built-in animations look good, and the videos I’ve seen are impressive. I may have to take a look at some of the examples to see what exactly can be done.
One issue that I have is that there is no windows executable. I may have to create a fallback, just in case the user doesn’t have it installed, or doesn’t have 3D available (or some may not even want animation).
Clutter looks pretty exciting, and maybe it will have matured a bit by the time I get Exposong 1.0 released.
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