Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

57 pykello 8 8/23/2025, 7:35:49 AM github.com ↗

Comments (8)

esperent · 3m ago
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jasonjmcghee · 42m ago
This gets submitted quite regularly to HN with many good discussions- so instead of posting the discussions I'll just link the search.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=manim

nikolayasdf123 · 17m ago
aren't HN supposed to deduplicate links? I thought duplicate URL submissions not allowed..
yen223 · 15m ago
HN allows duplicate submissions after a certain amount of time has passed
reactordev · 1h ago
This is cool. I immediately clicked because I thought of this awesome video from a couple years ago, Animation vs Math:

https://youtu.be/B1J6Ou4q8vE

I like math but showing someone a giant graph isn’t always the best approach. :)

maxbond · 56m ago
> I like math but showing someone a giant graph isn’t always the best approach. :)

Agreed. 3Blue1Brown has, by making their videos, publishing Manim, and critically by fostering a broader community of math YouTubers instead of trying to hoard the audience for themselves (through SoME), moved mathematics pedagogy forward immensely. (Sal Khan also deserves credit here.) He's created a genre that makes math feel like an exciting and approachable journey, rather than a process of memorization and symbol manipulation.

GTP · 2h ago
Wanted to look for this a while back. Thank you for sharing the link.
WayToDoor · 38m ago
sachinaag · 1h ago
I have been using this with cursor to make videos to explain papers and math concepts to myself.

Some of the results are not perfect (AI sometimes misaligns some shapes), but it's quite helpful and with a couple of iterations you get to a really good explainer video.