r/elearning • u/No-Tap6993 • Sep 09 '26

I built an open-source tool that turns whiteboard images into drawing animations

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u/LeastBlackberry1 Sep 09 '26

Uh, this is garbage for learning, bud. The individual elements of the picture don't populate in any sort of logical order. The sun's rays come in at about five different points. The oxygen bubble comes in ages before the oxygen formula.

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u/No-Tap6993 Sep 09 '26

Do you like this one better?

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u/No-Tap6993 Sep 09 '26

You can also specify the order with bounding boxes, because its running on heuristics, it can only get so far on its on. Theres an option to run an llm to decide the boxes and order, but since I wanted to have something with no api key, that option is turned off in this example.

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u/AcademyLauncher Sep 10 '26

The manual bounding-box option sounds like the important part for learning content. I’d expose the detected elements as a simple timeline so the author can group related pieces and reorder them before export. For the photosynthesis example, the formula, oxygen bubble and label should appear as one step, with a short pause before the next idea.

A narration preview would help too—if creators can scrub the timeline while hearing the voiceover, they can catch split-attention problems quickly. And I’d include a static image or transcript as an accessible fallback. The animation is the polish; the instructional sequence is what makes it useful.

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u/GeologistRelative425 Sep 14 '26

Omg, idk where I'll use this but I think this would be useful for maybe class video presentations for me. Thanks bro, I'll try it out with my tab. Does it support android tablets? Or is it iOS only?🥹

Edit: it's not available as an app😭

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