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manim

A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

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34Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
42.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

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Where it is used

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year34 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-10-29 06:01:20 UTC to 2026-08-22 19:08:22 UTC.

024682020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 4 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC541

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Ciechanowski's work (check Gears and Curves as good examples, but all of them are good) https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ Interactive linear algebra book https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/ Visualizing quaternions https://eater.net/quaternions Another quaternions visualization tool that reminded me that a few years ago many sites were full of java applets that were the first "explorables". Sometimes I still stumble upon old university websites that leave some space for the applet but it never loads. Sad stuff https://quaternions.online/ Some tools to make them: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim https://p5js.org/ https://processing.org/
In Joy.js – make happy little programs (2017)
For anyone wondering what 3Blue1Brown is, it's a top Youtube channel with very nicely made explanatory videos for math. The videos on linear algebra in particular are worth it, especially if you do any sort of machine learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs. The author of the channel is Grant Sanderson. He has recently given a talk at SIGGRAPH 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE. As part of developing his Youtube channel, he has written and open-sourced manim, a library for programatically generating animations written in Python: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/.
In SoME1 results
https://github.com/topics/linear-algebra?l=jupyter+notebook lists "Computational Linear Algebra for Coders" https://github.com/fastai/numerical-linear-algebra "site:GitHub.com inurl:awesome linear algebra jupyter" lists a few awesome lists with interactive linear algebra resources: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+inurl%3Aaw... 3blue1brown's "Essence of linear algebra" playlist has some excellent tutorials with intuition-building visualizations built with manim: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit... https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
In Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)
Related, if you want to create a code walkthrough video, I wrote code-video-generator [1] It uses Manim [2], an animation library commonly used by Math teachers, and adapted it to code walkthroughs. Just comment code as you do and it generates a video for it. I've been using it to generate visuals for youtube videos [3] with some success. [1] https://github.com/sleuth-io/code-video-generator [2] https://github.com/manimcommunity/manim [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21hJnB9J5k&t=2s
In Scrollycoding – A new way to write code walkthroughs [video]
Since I last used it, it looks like there has been a lot of work on manim in the community fork [1]. It used to definitely be a fair amount of work to figure things out, but it looks like things are easier now. I remember having to dig through source code for everything and the SVG rendering was a nightmare, but since then there's now some proper documentation [2] and an overhaul of how manim does SVG rendering [3]. Looks like it's much nicer to use now. It's worth messing around with if you haven't used manim before [1] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ [2] https://docs.manim.community/en/v0.4.0/index.html [3] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/915
In Show HN: I made a parser visualizer using manim

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