Slithy ~ adding an eye-candy to your presentation

I've been using Powerpoint to make my presentation slides and I've been moderately satisfied with animations and slide-transition effects that can be added fairly easily to my slides. However, when I saw Neil Spring, one of my friends, giving a talk using Slithy, I was totally fascinated by his slides. To be short, Slithy is a tool such that you can write a (python) program to show very fancy slides with lots of eye-candies. This page is my memo for installing and configuring Slithy on Mac OS X Tiger.

For the impatient (like me...)

If you run MacOSX 10.4.2 + XCode2.2, then things are pretty straight-forward. If you want to try out Slithy, you first need to install the following packages. Note that Mac OS X 10.4.x comes with stock python 2.5.x.

• TclTkAquaBI-8.4.10
• TigerPython23Compat
• PIL

Then you need Slithy (+Neil's Patch). Alternatively, you can download the patched package here.

• Slithy20030706-patched.zip

Now you can try Slithy example slides.

• Set environment variables
  • export PYTHONPATH=~/slithy20030706-patched
• Try out some examples
  • python $PYTHONPATH/examples/examples.py

For more information, you can refer to $PYTHONPATH/README.Apple.

Links

• Slithy
• Neil's Slithy Page (with Mac Patch)
• PowerPoint Killer App?

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