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Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by jmfldn » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 1:14 PM UTC

dddnzzz334 wrote: post #10

jimhefferon wrote: post #8

Does anyone know of a forum that discusses making this kind of thing? I am making some illustrations and struggling with questions such as a good range of colors that display well both on a computer screen and on a beamer. It'd be great to have folks to talk with.

I guess the Processing/p5.js people are the ones

+1 for Processing. Amazing tool to iterate quickly on these sorts of ideas.

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by Tomte » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 1:38 PM UTC

jimhefferon wrote: post #8

Does anyone know of a forum that discusses making this kind of thing? I am making some illustrations and struggling with questions such as a good range of colors that display well both on a computer screen and on a beamer. It'd be great to have folks to talk with.

manim had a Discord.

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by 123pie123 » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

jmfldn wrote: post #11

dddnzzz334 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess the Processing/p5.js people are the ones

+1 for Processing. Amazing tool to iterate quickly on these sorts of ideas.

another +1 I can't recommend Processing/p5.js enough

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by classified » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 2:31 PM UTC

I just can't trust anyone who mentions "maths".

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by bldavies » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 3:09 PM UTC

mhavelka77 wrote: post #4

Interesting! I recently wanted to make something similar and I completely fell in love with https://www.manim.community/ created by 3B1B.

3B1B is incredible. I loved his video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k) using Fourier series to make epicycle animations. I worked through the details to make my own: https://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by 3abiton » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

mhavelka77 wrote: post #4

Interesting! I recently wanted to make something similar and I completely fell in love with https://www.manim.community/ created by 3B1B.

How is this different than Brilliant?

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by chrismorgan » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

classified wrote: post #14

I just can't trust anyone who mentions "maths".

It’s pretty much only North America that calls it “math”. All the rest of the English-speaking world calls it “maths”.

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by mharig » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC

He has a YouTube video where he explains in quite detail how he makes his animations. His most important software tools are Adobe After Effects and Python with matplotlib.

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by avipars » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

3abiton wrote: post #16

mhavelka77 wrote: post #4

Interesting! I recently wanted to make something similar and I completely fell in love with https://www.manim.community/ created by 3B1B.

How is this different than Brilliant?

Free and open source

Re: Maths and science animations (2018)

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Post by itishappy » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 8:22 PM UTC

3abiton wrote: post #16

mhavelka77 wrote: post #4

Interesting! I recently wanted to make something similar and I completely fell in love with https://www.manim.community/ created by 3B1B.

How is this different than Brilliant?

Both great tools, but for different applications.

Brilliant is an education platform. Manim is an animation tool.

Manim animations could be used for education, but I do not believe Brilliant can be used to create custom animations.