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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

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·August 23, 2025
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esperent

It seems like the community fork would be the better link for most people.

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

jasonjmcghee

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

aren't HN supposed to deduplicate links? I thought duplicate URL submissions not allowed..

yen223

HN allows duplicate submissions after a certain amount of time has passed

emaro

Grant's work with 3blue1brown and Manim is simply amazing. The quality of the videos is so high, not the least thanks to the visualizations. Not an easy task given the abstract nature of the topic.

It's linked in the readme, but I want to highlight the demo video [0], where Grant explains how he works with Manim.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zI

throawayonthe

another youtuber-math-video-library: https://github.com/2swap/swaptube

from what i can tell they render their whole videos start to finish using it?

reactordev

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

> 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.

WayToDoor

See also :

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

GTP

Wanted to look for this a while back. Thank you for sharing the link.

sachinaag

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.