At a job I had long ago, embedding an interactive 3d model of a laser scan diffed with a CAD model was one of the products of my work. It was probably the best and easiest way to get that information to other people because otherwise we would have had to find some other way for people to view point clouds with color embedded.

IIRC Altium Designer can embed a complete PCB with their components rendered in 3D. Pretty useful to being able to see the model without having to open the software or even having it installed at all

This being underutilized is a good thing.

An excellent utilization of this is the physics textbook _Motion Mountain_ which is available as a PDF.

https://www.motionmountain.net/

Good way to mess with people that like to print PDFs

http://home.thep.lu.se/~bjorn/postscript/ for those who aren't familiar with using printers to render fractals

sheesh, and i thought g-code was hard to read

Maybe an opportunity to print out every frame of the gif and make a flip book for the reader to enjoy!

I can totally see it happening where someone hits print for the color printer on the other side of the office expecting 4 or 5 pages, but upon arriving at the printer after a short walk sees a stack of pages yet it still hasn't finished.

HR later sends out an email regarding the printing of PDFs unnecessarily. Think of the trees that could be saved by not printing.