Usually, you may always see a variety of cool mathematical animations, but do not know what to make, this time to recommend an artifact that can make mathematical animation: manim.
Manim is an open source mathematical simulation python library by Grant Sanderson, a brother in stanford's department of mathematics, and is used on YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown to explain advanced mathematics.
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Manim is a very good mathematical animation engine, let's start with two GIFs to feel the charm of manim:
Many students should have seen the 3b1b video on the B station, and the most classic is the essential series of linear algebra.
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Manim beginners may be a little confused, the code, documentation, tutorials, etc. on the Internet are too different to know which one to follow.
There are currently three versions of manim:
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3b1b Legacy: 3blue1brown maintains its own version, using Cairo as the backend.
New version of 3b1b: 3blue1brown's own version, using OpenGL and moderngl for GPU rendering, the advantage is fast.
Manim Community Edition: A derivative of the older version of manim, the update is more active, with good documentation and community support.
I learned the new version directly.
Manimgl environment build
This version of manimgl is particularly easy to install
1. Install and configure FFmpeg and LaTex
https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
FFmpeg, download and install, add the installation path to the environment variable
https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-windows.exe LaTex
Simpler, just take the next step.
2. Create a virtual environment
conda create -n manim python=3.8
conda activate manim 3. Install the manimgl package
pip install manimgl It can also be installed from the clone latest source code
git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim.git
cd manim
pip install -e . This also allows you to test whether the installation was successful.
manimgl example_scenes.py OpeningManimExample Learning resources
Official Documentation:
https://3b1b.github.io/manim
Chinese Documentation:
https://docs.manim.org.cn/
3b1b Video Source Code:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos
manim source code:
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
You can read the Chinese/English documents first, and then start making your own animations. If you have time, you can look at the 3b1b video (combined with the source code), if you have spare time, it is better if you can contribute code to manim.
Recently on YouTube saw a video of making data structures and algorithms with manim, which is quite strong.
Video Source Code:
https://github.com/nipunramk/Reducible