Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animations

[+] ZYinMD|4 years ago|reply

I wonder what 3 Blue 1 Brown uses. I heard he uses "a library he built himself, which now has a small community".

Edit: sorry for being a joke but I saw "Python library math animation" and I immediately thought of 3B1B but I really had no idea this was it!

[+] awesomelvin|4 years ago|reply

He is literally the creator of Manim and used it for all his videos. He also publishes the source code of each video on his GitHub account.

[+] sundarurfriend|4 years ago|reply

Assuming you're not joking, this is the library Grant built (and released open source).

[+] adenozine|4 years ago|reply

It’s this.

[+] ngmc|4 years ago|reply

Shameless plug for my mentee: p5.teach aims to be a beginner-friendly version of manim that runs in the browser.

https://github.com/two-ticks/p5.teach.js

https://medium.com/processing-foundation/p5-teach-teaching-m...

[+] amrrs|4 years ago|reply

This looks like a nice alternative for Manim, especially with minimal dependencies (easier setup). I'm definitely give it a try!

[+] adenozine|4 years ago|reply

Doesn’t use Python at all, it seems?

Making this comment less like a plug, and more like spam…

[+] amelius|4 years ago|reply

Does it have a constraint solver? I think that might be the kind of functionality you need most: move this while that stays fixed, or keeping this at a fixed distance from that, etc.

[+] gcthomas|4 years ago|reply

For anyone who uses LaTeX and Python already, this looks like a really nice way to make dynamic maths or science presentations.

The syntax looks a lot easier than LaTeX for static images, but the animations also look really quick to generate with minimal boilerplate.

[+] bradrn|4 years ago|reply

See also reanimate, a very similar Haskell library: https://reanimate.github.io/

[+] lnyan|4 years ago|reply

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245277 (community version)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716019 (3Blue1Brown's version)

[+] fareesh|4 years ago|reply

Looks great - does anyone know of similar projects and/or more examples with code?

[+] adhesive_wombat|4 years ago|reply

Wow that's cool. I've always wondered how to do something those swish YouTube videos like 3Blue1Brown[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM

[+] mcintyre1994|4 years ago|reply

In case you haven't spotted it yet, this is actually a community maintained fork of the library he uses for 3blue1brown and open sourced :) https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/installation/versions...

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