manim

A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

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A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

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westurner·Nov 20, 2023

Manim-sideview VSCode extension w/ snippets and live preview: https://github.com/Rickaym/Manim-Sideview Manim example gallery: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/examples.html From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38019102 re: Animated AI, ManimML: > Manim, Blender, ipyblender, PhysX, o3de, [FEM, CFD, [thermal, fluidic,] engineering]: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362 It actually looks like pygame-web (pygbag) supports panda3d and harfang in WASM, too; so manim with pygame for the web.

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westurner·Oct 25, 2023

ManimML: https://github.com/helblazer811/ManimML "But what is a convolution?" https://youtu.be/KuXjwB4LzSA?si=qwnZMQYJhDxraGc8 https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2022/convolution... https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2023/convolution... "Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25190770#25194658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37953886 : > Manim, Blender, ipyblender, PhysX, o3de, [FEM, CFD, [thermal, fluidic,] engineering]: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362 Manim + O3DE would be neat and probably useful for learning A Manim Rubik's cube algorithm video: https://github.com/polylog-cs/rubiks-cube-video/blob/main/co... Manim API docs: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/reference.html

In Animated AI

westurner·Oct 20, 2023

cadquery wraps OCC (OpenCascades) but used to wrap freeCAD. Here's a LEGO interlocking block brick in cadquery: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#lego... . awesome-cadquery: https://github.com/CadQuery/awesome-cadquery cadquery and thus also jupyter-cadquery now have support for build123d. gumyr/build123d https://github.com/gumyr/build123d : > Build123d is a python-based, parametric, boundary representation (BREP) modeling framework for 2D and 3D CAD. It's built on the Open Cascade geometric kernel and allows for the creation of complex models using a simple and intuitive python syntax. Build123d can be used to create models for 3D printing, CNC machining, laser cutting, and other manufacturing processes. Models can be exported to a wide variety of popular CAD tools such as FreeCAD and SolidWorks. > Build123d could

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be considered as an evolution of CadQuery where the somewhat restrictive Fluent API (method chaining) is replaced with stateful context managers* - e.g. with blocks - thus enabling the full python toolbox: for loops, references to objects, object sorting and filtering, etc.* "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576296 build123d docs > Tips & Best Practices: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tips.html BREP: Boundary representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_representation Manim, Blender, ipyblender, PhysX, o3de, [FEM, CFD, [thermal, fluidic,] engineering]: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362 NURBS: Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_rational_B-spline NURBS for COMPAS: test_curve.py, test_surface.py: https://github.com/gramaziokohler/compas_nurbs : > This package is inspired by the NURBS-Python package, however uses a NumPy-based backend for better performance. > Curve, and Surface are non-uniform non-rational B-Spline geometries (NUBS), RationalCurve, and RationalSurface are non-uniform rational B-Spline Geometries (NURBS). They all built upon the class BSpline. Coordinates have to be in 3D space (x, y, z) https://github.com/compas-dev compas_rhino, compas_blender, - [ ] compas_o3de Blender docs > Modeling Surfaces; NURBs implementation, limits, challenges: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/surfaces/... /? "NURBS" opencascade https://www.google.com/search?q=%22nurbs%22+%22opencascade%2... OCCT (OCC) Open Cascade Technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Technology OCCT > Standard Transient _ MMtg_TShared > Geom_Geometry > Geom_Curve > Geom_BoundedCurve > Geom_BSplineCurve https://dev.opencascade.org/doc/occt-6.9.1/refman/html/class... OCC > Standard Transient _ MMtg_TShared > Geom_Geometry > Geom_Surface > Geom_BoundedSurface > Geom_BSplineSurface: https://dev.opencascade.org/doc/occt-6.9.1/refman/html/class... Cadquery.Shape.toSplines(degree: int = 3, tolerance: float = 0.001, nurbs: bool = False)→ T https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/classreference.htm...

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coreyp_1·Sep 5, 2023

A template language that I wrote for generating HTML. Meant to be included as a C++ library. https://github.com/Ghoti-io/Tang Plenty of other C++ code of mine is on Github (such as a bunch of utility stuff, a thread pool, and a HTTP server that I'm writing from scratch), even though I would only call myself an intermediate C++ programmer. I just happen to like the language. Or, if I had to throw other stuff into the mix, a fairly recent patch to Manim (Python) that got accepted (https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/3155). If I were really pressed, I would dig up a lot of my Drupal (PHP) stuff that I did years ago.

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