PSTN2 Animations - Quick Start Guide
🚀 Get Started in 30 Seconds
Step 1: Open the Hub
cd /Users/nholland/Projects/Claude/PSTN2/animations
open index.html
Step 2: Pick an Animation
Click any of the 9 animation cards
Step 3: Click Play
Press the "▶ Play" button and enjoy!
🎬 What You Get
9 Professional Animations- Problem Statement - The crisis (8 scenes)
- Solution Overview - The answer (12 scenes)
- 7 Technical Deep Dives - How it works
🎮 Controls
Mouse
- Play/Pause - Start/stop auto-play
- Previous/Next - Navigate scenes
- Audio - Toggle narration
Keyboard
Space- Play/Pause→or↓- Next scene←or↑- Previous sceneHome- First sceneEnd- Last scene
🔊 Audio
Each scene has professional narration that reads the text.
Auto-advance: Slides wait for narration to complete before moving forward.
Toggle audio: Click the "🔊 Audio" button if you prefer silent mode.
📱 Browser Support
✅ Chrome (recommended) - Full support
✅ Edge - Full support
✅ Safari - Full support
⚠️ Firefox - Works, but no audio (uses timer instead)
📖 Viewing Order
New to PSTN2?
- Problem Statement (understand the problem)
- Solution Overview (see the solution)
- End-to-End Scenario (see it working)
Technical Audience?
- Solution Overview
- Authentication Option 1
- Distributed Database
- Any other deep dive
Business Audience?
- Problem Statement (the crisis)
- Solution Overview (the fix)
- Direct Routing (cost savings)
- Emergency Services (safety)
⚡ Quick Launch
Use the launcher script:
./open_animation.sh # List all
./open_animation.sh 1 # Open Problem Statement
./open_animation.sh 2 # Open Solution Overview
Or open directly:
open src/problem-statement/index.html
open src/solution-overview/index.html
🎯 Features
✅ Speech-driven timing - No cutting off mid-sentence
✅ No overlapping graphics - Professional layout
✅ Smooth animations - Fade ins, scale effects
✅ Interactive controls - Full keyboard support
✅ Responsive design - Works on different screen sizes
✅ Professional narration - Text-to-speech for all scenes
📊 Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Animations | 9 |
| Scenes | 100 |
| Duration | ~100 min |
| Lines of Code | 11,980 |
| HTML | 1,904 lines |
| JavaScript | 3,723 lines |
| CSS | 6,353 lines |
🐛 Troubleshooting
Audio not playing?- Chrome/Edge/Safari: Should work automatically
- Firefox: No audio support, uses timer mode
- Click "🔊 Audio" to toggle
- Make browser window at least 1000px wide
- Reset zoom to 100% (Cmd/Ctrl + 0)
- Try full screen (F11)
- Close other browser tabs
- Disable browser extensions
- Try Chrome (best performance)
📁 File Structure
animations/
├── index.html # Start here!
├── README.md # Full documentation
├── open_animation.sh # Quick launcher
└── src/
├── problem-statement/
├── solution-overview/
├── authentication-option1/
├── authentication-option2/
├── direct-routing/
├── emergency-services/
├── distributed-database/
├── map-architecture/
└── end-to-end-scenario/
🎓 Learn More
- Full Documentation: See
README.md - Delivery Report: See
DELIVERY_COMPLETE.md - Testing Guide: See
TESTING_CHECKLIST.md - Development Guide: See
ANIMATIONGENERATIONGUIDE.md
✅ Ready to Go
All 9 animations are complete and ready for use.
No setup, no dependencies, no configuration needed.
Just open and play!
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Quick Start:open index.html
Questions?: Check README.md
Issues?: See TESTING_CHECKLIST.md