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Devin Neal

I'm on a journey to polish up manim, an engine for creating educational videos. It's the software used by 3Blue1Brown to make YouTube videos on math. My goal is to make the software easy to understand and use so that everyone can teach this way.

eulertour / manim

Animation engine for explanatory math videos

Manim

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Animation engine for explanatory math videos.

I made this fork in an effort to clean up the technical debt that has been accumulating on the upstream repo. Manim has the potential to be an excellent teaching tool, but it needs some work in terms of testing, documentation, community support, and general robustness before that happens.

You can probably tell from the previous paragraph that this project is very much a work in progress. You'll have to do a lot of exploration on your own to learn how the software works. Expect things to break frequently and unexpectedly early on, and to spend some time debugging. Feel free to file an issue if something seems wrong, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Installation requirements

This fork of Manim runs on python 3.7 only. Earlier versions of python are not supported You can install the python dependencies…

Here's a quick taste of how it's used.