Manim (3Blue1Brown) ∑
Manim is an animation engine for explanatory math videos. It’s used to create precise animations programmatically, as seen in the videos at 3Blue1Brown - 3b1b/manim / HN
Notes see the Community Edition for starter
- Manim, or ManimCE refers to the community maintained version of the library.
- ManimGL is the latest released version of the version of the library developed by Grant “3b1b” Sanderson. It has more experimental features and breaking changes between versions are not documented.
- ManimCairo is the name that is sometimes used for the old, pre-OpenGL version of manimgl.

see also
- Ego and Math - Stanford Math Department Commencement Speech 2023
# Setup
see Fully working Manim setup using nix + uv
# Why use the OpenGL renderer? ⮺
# VSCode ⮺
Alternatives
- is to use Jupyter Notebooks
# Tutorials ⮺
- How I Animate 3Blue1Brown / HN
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[Manim tutorial Introduction: What is Manim? (2022 Update)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMyFGmq5OA&list=PL2B6OzTsMUrwo4hA3BBfS7ZR34K361Z8F)
# Hello World ⮺
$ manim init project my-project --defaultfrom manim import *
class CreateCircle(Scene):
def construct(self):
circle = Circle() # create a circle
circle.set_fill(PINK, opacity=0.5) # set the color and transparency
self.play(Create(circle)) # show the circle on screen# Example
Written on November 7, 2020, Last update on October 12, 2024
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