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feat(fingerspelling): add continues fingerspelling animation

Open AmitMY opened this issue 11 months ago • 4 comments

Fixes #39

For American Sign Language, based on https://fingerspell.net/, I added the transitions for fingerspelling.

The old version (all letters, then a word: "journalizations")

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journalizations

The new version (all letters, then a word: "journalizations")

new.webm

journalizations

I kind of like the a-z in the old version more, but spelling a word is nicer in the new version.

What do we like more?

AmitMY avatar Dec 24 '24 15:12 AmitMY

I cannot tell what the exact difference is: did you make the transition smoother and the overall speed quicker?

J22Melody avatar Dec 31 '24 11:12 J22Melody

the second "journalizations" is a bit confusing for me because it looks like starting with an "i"

J22Melody avatar Dec 31 '24 11:12 J22Melody

I cannot tell what the exact difference is: did you make the transition smoother and the overall speed quicker?

I made it so there are only transitions, and each possible transition is coded (A->B, A->C, ....) - that way the spelling is smooth, in place, and faster.

Previous version treated every character as separate a sign, and concatenated them. transitions are generated on the fly

AmitMY avatar Dec 31 '24 14:12 AmitMY

Feedback from deaf users: new method should have longer hold between letters. Instead of "AB" + "BC" we should "AB" + pause + "BC". Maybe even not just a static pause, but also a slight scale change, to indicate an abruptness, and to not have multiple frozen frames

New version is also less clear when there is finger contact, like in D or F: image

AmitMY avatar Jan 09 '25 11:01 AmitMY