3b1b/manim
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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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He uses custom, self-developed tools http://www.3blue1brown.com/about/ https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by henrikeh · 2017-11-04 · in What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video] -
…series, really a gem. He makes the software used to create the animations and it's open-source: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by badosu · 2017-05-13 · in Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series -
…[2] he built himself. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... [2] https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by cyber_dude · 2017-04-18 · in Miniatures: Mathematical and Algorithmic Applications of Linear Algebra [pdf] -
Yes, the Python library is called Manim, and it's on GitHub: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by espeed · 2017-02-13 · in Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video] -
…engine used in the videos (written in Python): Manim: animation engine for explanatory math videos https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by espeed · 2017-02-11 · in The Essence of Linear Algebra [video] -
Animation code available? Check. https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by harry8 · 2016-08-09 · in Essence of linear algebra – YouTube video series by 3Blue1Brown -
I think getting this ( https://github.com/3b1b/manim ) to work needs a video would need a video of its own. :) Here's where I got to since the README.md is basically empty for the moment. So far I've got it to do something. It needs at…
comment by throwathrowaway · 2016-02-19 · in Mathematics Animations -
From his YouTube comments, he wrote his own engine in Python and open sourced it -- https://github.com/3b1b/manim
comment by psyklic · 2016-02-19 · in Mathematics Animations