ManimCommunity/manim
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A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
34 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 7 stories, 27 comments · first 2020-10-29 · latest 2026-08-22
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…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] -
It’s crazy his framework is open source https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by abirch · 2025-10-08 · in An illustrated introduction to linear algebra -
Is there an awesome list for manim the software? Manim: Math Animation Src: ManimCommunity/manim: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim Docs: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/ GH topic: manim: https://github.com/topics/manim :…
comment by westurner · 2025-08-23 · in Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos -
It seems like the community fork would be the better link for most people. https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
comment by esperent · 2025-08-23 · in Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos -
See also : https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by WayToDoor · 2025-08-23 · in Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos -
…the community fork of manim which 3blue1brown uses for videos would produce a better result. [1] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
comment by bangaladore · 2025-08-13 · in Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos -
…to fit the same use case. I don’t know about widely-used, though. [1] https://3blue1brown.com [2] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by mjochim · 2025-01-13 · in Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) -
and the community fork: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by srik · 2024-10-12 · in How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video] -
…cool for STEM. "Render and interact with through Blender, o3de, panda3d ManimCommunity/manim#3362" https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362
comment by westurner · 2024-08-24 · in Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux -
…Is there a good way to do panda3d with a manim-like interface, for scripting instructional design? https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362#issuecom...
comment by westurner · 2024-07-11 · in Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python -
…visual appeal and educational value [1]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HeaeUUOnc [1]: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by jhncls · 2024-04-24 · in A Rigorous Derivation of the Bubble Sort Curve -
…that reach them, how do we Manim in 3 or even 4D? Manim > "Render with [Blender and/or od3e]" https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362 FWIU Disney Games are often built with Panda3d, which works with pygame-web/pygbag in WASM…
comment by westurner · 2024-02-08 · in Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games -
…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…
comment by westurner · 2023-11-20 · in Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online? -
…: > 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:…
comment by westurner · 2023-10-25 · in Animated AI -
…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…
comment by westurner · 2023-10-20 · in Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities -
…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…
comment by coreyp_1 · 2023-09-05 · in Ask HN: Show us what you'd share if an recruiter asked you for code samples -
The community version is https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim And there is for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaAnimators/Javis.jl
comment by Flockster · 2022-06-06 · in Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos -
not very related, but you might want to check out manim: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by tusharsadhwani · 2022-03-09 · in Blender 3.1 -
There 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…
comment by smoe · 2022-02-06 · in 3Blue1Brown: The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy -
…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 -
…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/
comment by thoughtFrame · 2021-11-19 · in Joy.js – make happy little programs (2017) -
…and open-sourced manim, a library for programatically generating animations written in Python: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ .
comment by truly · 2021-11-01 · in SoME1 results -
…visualizations built with manim: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit... https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by westurner · 2021-08-13 · in Interactive Linear Algebra (2019) -
There is also the Manim Community Edition: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ According to the original Manim's readme, it's recommended to use the Community Edition, since it's updated more often.
comment by sidpatil · 2021-03-18 · in Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos -
…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
comment by mrdonbrown · 2021-03-15 · in Scrollycoding – A new way to write code walkthroughs [video] -
…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/…
comment by roboticmind · 2021-03-08 · in Show HN: I made a parser visualizer using manim -
…fork called ManimCommunity[0] that is looking to make it even more powerful and developer friendly. https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
comment by hydroxideOH- · 2020-10-29 · in Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos