[jltsiren]

If you need to visualize an algorithm in a talk, the usual approach is having a few slides representing the key steps instead of an actual animation. That way you can adapt the pace to the audience, stop to answer questions about any individual frame, and jump back to previous frames when necessary. People often find animations on slides distracting, and the forced pace is almost certainly wrong. And if the animation is longer than a few seconds, the talk stops being a talk and becomes an awkward video presentation instead.

[klysm]

> People often find animations on slides distracting, and the forced pace is almost certainly wrong.

I completely disagree. Animations can be appropriate, but people have formed dogmatic generalizations due to shitty use of gifs