FLFlockster·Jun 6, 2022
The community version is https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
And there is for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaAnimators/Javis.jl
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A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
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What it is
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
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- 3b1b/manim · linked in 3 of the same discussions
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesAsk HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?
I'm using Mermaid, Excalidraw and PlantUML diagrams to explain and document what I'm working on and they work great and are a lot better than screens of prose, but I've become aware that something is missing: motion.
Animation brings a whole lot more to explanations, making simple explanations of how request coalescing works easy to understand, token simulations [0] through to helping explain concepts like Fresnel lenses [1]. Embedding them into GitHub READMEs, tweets and documentation would be awesome.
Google do it to illustrate posts (e.g. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-naviga...).
I found Excalidraw Claymate [2] but the stop motion approach with no tweening support makes it painful to create animations where circles move from place to place. There's also Manim [3] but I think this is more for maths.
Adobe Flash u
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sed to be the go-to; what do you reach for when you want to illustrate a concept with an animated diagram?
0. https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-token-simulation
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576688
2. https://github.com/dai-shi/excalidraw-claymate
3. https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
not very related, but you might want to check out manim: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
In Blender 3.1There 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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