Re: Animated stroke order diagrams and stroke order pages on the web

Ben Finney wrote:
Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ben Finney wrote:
When drawing the character, one starts with a blank space; to see
(1), (2), (3) etc. next to a *completed* character makes it harder
to visualise where to place initial strokes within that
space. This is especially true for strokes that clearly need to
line up against others, but are drawn *before* those strokes exist
on the page.
It's a long time since I've looked at such a thing so I'm not 100%
sure it ever happened, but *気が利いた* diagrams would have the
number, written in white, *on* the beginning of the stroke.

Seeing the strokes drawn in the context of *only the strokes that are
already drawn* is the difference I'm referring to. When all the
strokes are present in the numbered diagram, it's incrementally harder
to visualise, for instance, *only* the first three strokes of a
16-stroke kanji.

An animated diagram makes it easier to visualise the strokes *in the
context of what's already been drawn*, as contrasted with *the
already-completed character*; the former is more relevant to the
actual process of drawing them and thus incrementally more useful, in
my experience.

Have you checked out Kanji Alive?
http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/main.php?page=overview&lang=en

The not only have animated kanji but a list of common words with sound files.
My only gripe is the clunky quicktime interface. First, finding a version of Quicktime that does not also install itunes is a royal pain. Second, every time Try to delete an entry, I get a nag screen to buy the pro version.

Rykk
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