# chalktalk

**Repository Path**: llggff/chalktalk

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: chalktalk
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: JavaScript
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2019-08-30
- **Last Updated**: 2020-12-19

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

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## README

# Chalktalk

![](readme_images/Pendulum.gif)

**Chalktalk** is a digital presentation and communication language 
in development at [New York University's Future Reality Lab](https://frl.nyu.edu/).
Using a blackboard-like interface, it allows a presenter to create and interact
with animated digital sketches in order to demonstrate ideas and concepts in the context
of a live presentation or conversation.

Sketches can display animations and graphics in 2D and 3D…

![](readme_images/Rotation.gif)

…link together to demonstrate complex logical connections and behaviors…

![](readme_images/3DGraphics.gif)

…and even be coded live from within Chalktalk itself.

![](readme_images/LiveCoding.gif)

A growing library of sketches--from creatures to math and physics objects--is available,
and Chalktalk continues to evolve.

## Installation and Usage

Installation instructions can be found [in the wiki](https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk/wiki/Installation-and-Running). A brief tutorial on how to use the system [can be found there as well](https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk/wiki/Introduction-to-Chalktalk).

## Contribution

See [the contribution guidelines](/CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to contribute to Chalktalk.

## Sketch Creation

To create your own sketch, create a new .js file (nameOfMySketch.js) or copy a template (from sketch_templates) into the sketches directory. 

In your file, change the value of `this.label` and begin customizing your new sketch.

Note: a soon-to-be-enabled update will implement a sketch tagging system where each sketch is associated with one or more tags (attributes / descriptions), so new pull requests with sketches to be added should use `this.tag = "tagname"` or `this.tags = ["tagname1", "tagname2"]` within the function body of a sketch file (similar to `this.label` and `this.labels`). Tag names should be general enough to apply to multiple sketches.

[Further information on sketch creation can be found in the wiki](https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk/wiki/Creating-a-Sketch).

## License 
MIT