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Ask HN: What do you use for scientific presentations?

5 points by hamburgererror 5 days ago · 2 comments · 1 min read


I frequently do scientific presentations has parts of my work, I need to display formulas, graphs and sometimes animations. So far I used Beamer but it feels cumbersome over time.

Recently I discovered Manim [0, 1] and Quarto [2]. Manim looks amazing but maybe too much for my needs, Quarto looks just fine.

Do you have any other recommandations?

[0]: https://www.manim.community/

[1]: https://manim-slides.eertmans.be/latest/

[2]: https://quarto.org/

soohyunbae 5 days ago

Thank you for asking this. This is something I have been wondering too. I have also been using Beamer, which is amazing if I do a good job. Good for math heavy presentation, but adding an animation is hard. Anyone?

gus_massa 5 days ago

Popwerpoint! In Beamer is too easy to add formulas and difficult to add graphics, so people present walllllllllllls of formulas. Powerpoint is on the other extreme, so every formula is painful and you use as few as possible. [Mathematician, but now I'm mostly working in applications to Physics.]

Anyway, for my last talk I needed a lot of graphics of polynomials, so I used Beamer with a few macros of Tikz to make consistent graphics.

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