LUluxcem·Dec 12, 2022
Reminds me of https://github.com/3b1b/manim , a python library for animation that was made by the author of 3Blue1Brown videos.
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Animation engine for explanatory math videos
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Animation engine for explanatory math videos
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3b1b uses a python library for creating those videos. https://github.com/3b1b/manim As far as a math educator/communicator, one of my favorite videos of his is the video on the…
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7 sourcesInteresting to see https://github.com/3b1b/manim where the YouTuber has created a software tool to automate his work.
> never thought some simple animation of moving a ball could take a whole night
yeah always surprising (more complexity that expected) when we look under the hood of any operation
> Can you name some example...
https://www.videoscribe.co/en/ is used by a few creators on YT, you must have seen their videos. I wonder who is building the tool itself.
In Ask HN: How much effort it takes to build decent video/interactive explainers?Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
124 points · Open discussionspecifically it's a community variant of it. Grant still has his own version (https://github.com/3b1b/manim) where he works independently, and the community fork builds off that and e.g. adds and maintains things Grant might not care about.
In Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animationsTo nitpick a bit, manim.community is a fork of the library he built. This is the original:
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
From the the READE:
"Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlier to get started with. See this page for more details."
In Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animationsAnimation engine for explanatory math videos
2 points · Open discussionThere is also the community fork of manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
According to 3b1b on the original repo:
"Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlier to get started with."
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
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