manim

Hey everyone, I've written a new blog post (https://rajatvd.github.io/Factor-Graphs/) on an awesome visualization tool that I recently came across -- factor graphs. Initially, I encountered them in the context of message passing on graphical models, but soon realized that they are useful in more general contexts. This is the first post in a series that covers the basics and mainly focuses on understanding how factor graphs work as a visualization tool, along with a cool example of a visual proof using them. In future posts, I plan to cover algorithms like message passing and belief propagation using this visualization framework. I made the animations using manim(https://github.com/3b1b/manim/), a math animation tool created by the amazing 3blue1brown. I built a small library, manimnx(https://github.com/rajatvd/manimnx), on top of manim to

Yes! I really enjoy them as well-- and he has his animation software on github: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

It's on Github, if you didn't know: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

The library used for the animations: https://github.com/3b1b/manim Sources for episodes are included: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/tree/master/active_projects/od... The composer behind for many of the songs is Vincent Rubinetti: https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue... 3b1b interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0RH93XvSyU

> Seems like it would be much less useful to copy his configs rather than building your own organic system after years of use, though - which is what he did. This is a great point and one I've been thinking about more recently. Tools and/or setups like the one displayed in the post with this level of specificity or complexity seem like they would be almost useless packaged up as a standalone. Much more valuable would be the system on which this was built (vim and the collections of extensions he used, not saying this is anywhere near an idea workflow but as you know if you use vim - it is extensible in its own right). Or, rather than that system, to take inspiration in it and design tools with much more intentional flexibility to allow people to build their experience. I recently had a great conversation about how science educators might

He has written a python library called "manim" for his visualizations https://github.com/3b1b/manim

He built a python library for his visualizations called manim available on his github [1]. [1] https://github.com/3b1b/manim

> Shame that this awesome visualization method he uses isn't used more ... The animation engine is on GitHub so you can make your own: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

If you aren't already aware, 3b1b made a super cool library [0] to help make the animations in their videos. [0] github.com/3b1b/manim