Math Animation
through Gestures
Making math animation more accessible and interactive for educators
In 10-weeks, I tried prototyping an accessible, gesture-based interface for educators to generate quality math animations without needing to code. This converts drawn gestures to code in Manim (a Python math animation package), generates the animation videos based on the gestures in the backend, and displays the result back to the user in the frontend.
Skills
Research
Full-stack
How can we make math animation more accessible for educators who don't have a coding background?
We wanted to prototype a new workflow from scratch using only gestures to create animation. I started the project having only taken an intro to CS class with no prior experience in programming, Python, web and software development, Manim, or CS research.
Outcome
In the end, I produced a toy example with circle to square animation.
It unfortunately no longer works due to an issue with the Websocket server I was using. Manim was also not the most mature when I was working on this, so this combined with my desire to explore other experiences resulted in the pause of this project.
Learning