I had the chance to use Manim during my college undergraduate project, it was very scrappy, but the library was very intuitive to use. And now this makes me wonder if there are other similar libraries like Manim for these more videographic oriented production.
How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#32It was impressive how he spotted a bug in his rendering engine and found a workaround for it in realtime! https://youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI?feature=shared&t=693
To me it appeared more like he was aware of a limitation in the new rendering logic he was working on in the backend, and that he knew a simple (high level) workaround.
Still impressive work :)
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
He featured multiple times before with Matt Parker and Brady Haran (NF), strange that you missed it. Although I guess even in this niche channel preferences vary wildly.
What's NF? ChatGPT thinks it refers to Numberphile in this comment, but wouldn't that be NP? I've never seen Numberphile abbreviated as NF.
My bad, ph is not my first language’s foneme.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#34Omg I would love to make an explainer on bridging algorithms[1] with this tool! I've been a huge fan of their use in participatory democracy processes since 2016 (using tools like Pol.is), and have wanted to make a contribution to increasing literacy around the foundational math involved Had I known about Manim back when his Summer of Math Exposition[2] was happening, I def would have dived in! [1]: https://bridging.…
I had no idea this existed, thanks so much for the link! Reading their paper right now, and I'd love to see your explainer once you make it :) My website is linked from my profile, send me a link on social media if you ever get around to making that explainer!
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
He featured multiple times before with Matt Parker and Brady Haran (NF), strange that you missed it. Although I guess even in this niche channel preferences vary wildly.
What's NF? ChatGPT thinks it refers to Numberphile in this comment, but wouldn't that be NP? I've never seen Numberphile abbreviated as NF.
I'm assuming Numberphile indeed, as that's the most likely for a Brady Haran channel with 3b3b as a guest.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
He featured multiple times before with Matt Parker and Brady Haran (NF), strange that you missed it. Although I guess even in this niche channel preferences vary wildly.
What's NF? ChatGPT thinks it refers to Numberphile in this comment, but wouldn't that be NP? I've never seen Numberphile abbreviated as NF.
Yes, Numberphile, as confirmed by looking up Brady Haran in Wikipedia.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#37I’m amazed at how much production goes into each of his videos. His YouTube play button is well deserved.
It's also what bums me out about YouTube. There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos - orders of magnitude more than would go into putting together a well-illustrated blog post. As with blogs, a lot of this effort is wasted unless you get lucky. But with blogs, at least you have multiple good shots at visibility. Maybe you'll make it to the top of HN, maybe on X, maybe somewhere…
From what YouTube creators are saying lately subscriber counts don’t matter anymore. So even if you have a zillion subscribers you’re still almost completely at the mercy of the algorithm.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#38I absolutely love his voice. Its so calm and soothing that I can have his video running on the side while I am doing my chores and can still learn stuff.
Content creators like this deserve the recognition
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#39I’m amazed at how much production goes into each of his videos. His YouTube play button is well deserved.
It's also what bums me out about YouTube. There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos - orders of magnitude more than would go into putting together a well-illustrated blog post. As with blogs, a lot of this effort is wasted unless you get lucky. But with blogs, at least you have multiple good shots at visibility. Maybe you'll make it to the top of HN, maybe on X, maybe somewhere…
> If they don't engage, that's the end of the road.
As some counterexample anecdata, the YouTube algorithm is being quite generous to me lately, often giving me relatively low-view videos from years ago, some of which have been quite good. Maybe I'm just in a small a/b test, but it seems that videos do get multiple chances.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#40It was impressive how he spotted a bug in his rendering engine and found a workaround for it in realtime! https://youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI?feature=shared&t=693
In larger companies this is how arsonist-firefighter engineers look impressive... fixing a bug they are responsible for while in a highly visible position