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Animation engine for explanatory math videos

66 mentions on Hacker News by 64 people: 8 stories, 58 comments · first 2016-02-19 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. It's really fun seeing Manim [1] used to illustrate a proof! (See the video at the bottom) [1]: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by tekacs · 2026-08-25 · in A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant
  2. …ub.com/3b1b/videos?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow code for videos: https://github.com/3b1b/videos manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim manim community edition: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
    comment by john_strinlai · 2026-03-27 · in How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]
  3. …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApL1EL2GMk #Frondizi speaks about #Perón. #history #Argentina #video https://github.com/3b1b/manim Manim math #animation software for morphing equations and plots and stuff into each other, using FFmpeg,…
    comment by kragen · 2025-08-28 · in Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
  4. Have you tried ManimGL? https://github.com/3b1b/manim/releases Super awesome, and you can make it into an MCP for Cursor.
    comment by samstave · 2025-03-12 · in Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
  5. video author is using 3b1b's manim ( https://github.com/3b1b/manim ). wonderful presentation.
    comment by nakedneuron · 2025-01-15 · in Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022)
  6. Link to Manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by joshdavham · 2024-10-12 · in How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
  7. …over the result, it's pretty rewarding to just use the built-in Canvas API [3] directly. [1] https://github.com/3b1b/manim [2] https://github.com/JazonJiao/Manim.js/ [3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/...
    comment by seabass · 2024-06-05 · in An animated introduction to Fourier series
  8. …he does better than most. He actually wrote his own custom animation library for math animations: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by _delirium · 2024-04-15 · in Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
  9. …Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown has published the "framework" he uses for his math videos on GitHub. https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by riemannzeta · 2024-03-02 · in Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
  10. 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 monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0oCDa74tE Also…
    comment by bb88 · 2023-12-19 · in 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series
  11. Somewhat related but focused on animated diagrams, Manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim From 3Brown1Blue, used in their maths videos. Also maybe Mathbox. https://github.com/unconed/mathbox From Steve Wittens / Acko.net. ( See also…
    comment by genezeta · 2023-11-20 · in Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?
  12. …linear algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... Animation engine: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by pveierland · 2023-01-31 · in Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
  13. …for the engine he uses for the math animations so that others can use it to make similar things: https://github.com/3b1b/manim There's also a loose group of people already doing the visual learners "explainers" thing over here:…
    comment by indigochill · 2023-01-18 · in Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video]
  14. Reminds me of https://github.com/3b1b/manim , a python library for animation that was made by the author of 3Blue1Brown videos.
    comment by luxcem · 2022-12-12 · in Vector Animations with Python (2014)
  15. Interesting 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…
    comment by balaji1 · 2022-08-13 · in Ask HN: How much effort it takes to build decent video/interactive explainers?
  16. specifically 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…
    comment by detaro · 2022-03-13 · in Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animations
  17. To 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…
    comment by smoe · 2022-03-13 · in Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animations
  18. …quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlier to get started with." https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by smoe · 2022-02-06 · in 3Blue1Brown: The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
  19. Plug for Grant Sanderson’s (3Blue1Brown) Manim and now Manim Community edition. https://github.com/3b1b/manim https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
    comment by meowkit · 2021-12-25 · in Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
  20. …the gallery for it in action [2]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw [1] https://github.com/3b1b/manim [2] https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/examples.html
    comment by abetusk · 2021-08-20 · in Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
  21. Not exactly what you are looking for, but 3blue1brown's https://github.com/3b1b/manim is a great resource all in all.
    comment by jorgebucaran · 2021-06-05 · in Ask HN: What are all the FOSS programs for various mathematical explorations?
  22. 3brown1blue is also the creator of manim, the library used for his own videos: https://github.com/3b1b/manim . It's an awesome python library to create math animations, I would highly recommend it.
    comment by dgellow · 2021-03-21 · in Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies
  23. I believe the maker of 3blue1brown has a open source kit for just that: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by xevrem · 2021-01-05 · in How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis
  24. …Cairo from 3b1b manim, where it's one of very few named dependencies (cairo, ffmpeg, sox, latex). https://github.com/3b1b/manim .. Maybe he'll rewrite it in Julia :)
    comment by schemathings · 2020-11-12 · in Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is able to make a release?
  25. …this only tangentially, how similar is the interface and implementation to what's used in Grant's https://github.com/3b1b/manim ?
    comment by cbkeller · 2020-10-11 · in Javis v0.2 and the Future
  26. I wonder who else is using his animation engine to do videos. It doesn't mention it in the docs. https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by nikivi · 2020-10-10 · in 3Blue1Brown Made It to π Million Subscribers
  27. https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by hotdox · 2020-09-09 · in Ask HN: Is there a declarative animation language?
  28. Visuals are amazing, as always! I've recently learned that 3b1b has his own animation library. https://github.com/3b1b/manim I wonder if there are any manim art out there :)
    comment by alg_fun · 2020-09-05 · in Hamming codes, h■w to ov■rco■e n■ise
  29. there's https://github.com/3b1b/manim created and used by https://www.3blue1brown.com/
    comment by iwintermute · 2020-07-27 · in How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
  30. …topic: - If you still want to do YouTube, 3b1b open sourced the library he uses to make his videos. https://github.com/3b1b/manim - Maybe there is a niche for youtube vids for advanced students studying maths at home these days. IDK, that…
    comment by O_H_E · 2020-06-30 · in Grassmann.jl dev looking for science funding
  31. …He has opensourced his animation engine "manim" used in his videos: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by jmiserez · 2020-05-13 · in Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
  32. It's a great video. His source is here: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/shaders/from_3b1b/active/...
    comment by timtimmy · 2020-03-28 · in Boids
  33. Worth looking at Grant's graphics library made for and used in his videos: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/
    comment by vermilingua · 2020-01-20 · in 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video]
  34. …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(…
    comment by MindSustenance · 2019-10-21 · in Visualizing Tensor Operations with Factor Graphs
  35. Yes! I really enjoy them as well-- and he has his animation software on github: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by ranie93 · 2019-10-17 · in The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video]
  36. It's on Github, if you didn't know: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by penguin_booze · 2019-04-07 · in Overview of differential equations [video]
  37. 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:…
    comment by 29athrowaway · 2019-04-07 · in Overview of differential equations [video]
  38. …about page; first item is his modeling approach: https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq 3b1b animation: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by angleofrepose · 2019-03-22 · in How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
  39. He has written a python library called "manim" for his visualizations https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by nradk · 2019-01-21 · in A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]
  40. He built a python library for his visualizations called manim available on his github [1]. [1] https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by chrisdsaldivar · 2019-01-21 · in A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]
  41. …method he uses isn't used more ... The animation engine is on GitHub so you can make your own: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by ragebol · 2019-01-21 · in A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]
  42. …aren't already aware, 3b1b made a super cool library [0] to help make the animations in their videos. [0] github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by foxes · 2019-01-16 · in Complex Math Made Simple with Engaging Animations
  43. …or constants that i begin to gain a real intuitive understanding of an underlying concept (o) https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by justifier · 2018-10-26 · in Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series
  44. Yep, and all the source code is developed in the open as well! https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by foobarbecue · 2018-10-21 · in Understanding Quaternions
  45. His python library for generating his visuals is open source and equally as impressive: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by MaxLeiter · 2018-09-06 · in Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]
  46. …visualizations is also hosted on GitHub[0]. The repo includes the source for all his videos. [0] https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by jcapuder · 2018-06-01 · in Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?
  47. I've recently learned that 3blue1brown's [1] videos are generated with python: https://github.com/3b1b/manim [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
    comment by rayalez · 2018-02-03 · in Video editing with Python
  48. He wrote his own tools in Python to achieve this (repo: https://github.com/3b1b/manim ). FAQ: http://www.3blue1brown.com/about/
    comment by meseznik · 2018-01-28 · in An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
  49. Source code of the video: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/master/active_projects/fo...
    comment by magnat · 2018-01-28 · in An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
  50. …animation using a set of Python tools and libraries he wrote. You can find them published here: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
    comment by lelandbatey · 2017-11-04 · in What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]