I assume that a considerable percentage of CS students or recent graduates (myself included, back in the day) dream about creating some sort of visualization tool, let alone an awesome one like this.
Ive been working on for like 4 years now :[
How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#82Lately I often think about 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Kahn Academy, how much good they are doing to this world. Imagine having close to an unlimited amount of money at your disposal and a media platform which is capable of reaching close to every person on this planet. To give people a voice in a community, if they dare to or if they feel the need to. The only thing you then lack is a platform for organizing communi…
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I'm going to find out a way to automatically hide comments referencing "musk". You can't even read about a 3Blue1Brown video without people somehow making it about him. Every thread, every day, it's just people talking about Elon Musk.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#83Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendered line-by-line but the animation does remind me of BGI example code running on slow IBM PCs.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#84Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendered line-by-line but the animation does remind me of BGI example code running on slow IBM PCs.
I'm quite certain the typeface is Computer Modern (the primary font being CMU Serif, to be precise). It can be found by Googling it. I also distribute the fonts as an NPM library, since they are OFL. [1]
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like quite a few of the content creators I watch are starting to “show their face”, though the big one that comes to mind is the Real Engineering guy. A few of his newest videos have had him acting a bit like a host, interviewer and narrator. It’s also weird when some of these creators swap with somebody else, like veratasium has had his producer do some of the videos instead. The big reveal would be AvE.
I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.
Always felt AvE stayed the same person he always, the same kind of commentary he always made. Low gov man with low gov sentiments.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#863B1B is doing god's work. May his tribe increase!! I personally have benefited enormously from so many of his YT videos. I wish this is how Mathematics was taught in high-schools, Engg schools. <3 <3
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Haha, the way maths is taught at university hasn't changed in centuries.
Let's not pretend this has all been figured out and perfected. Heck, most maths professors I encountered in my studies could trace their scientific lineage straight back to C.F.Gauss[1] and that's how they taught. Don't get me wrong, some were great teachers, others not so much, but there are valid alternatives to the classic lecture.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
A YouTube video has a URL though. So just like a blog post, you can share it on all the same sites you mentioned with blog posts. Plus you have the built-in audience of YouTube and the algorithm that can help with discovery.. "Build it and they will come" has never been true, for videos or blogs...
There are surprisingly few venues for video content outside YT, at least not on a scale that would matter on YT! For example, if you want to get to the top of HN, non-video content has much better odds. Many tech- or science-centric subreddits discourage or ban videos too. YT is a fairly closed ecosystem that's both insanely resource-intensive to participate in, and that doesn't give creators too many second chances.…
I've discovered so much content on YouTube that I would never have found if it was on someone's blog.
And on top of that I also find YT content through social media, blogs, forums, etc..
So I hear you, but I guess based on my own experience, I disagree! But that's cool, we can do that. :-)
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#88Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendered line-by-line but the animation does remind me of BGI example code running on slow IBM PCs.
I'm quite certain the typeface is Computer Modern (the primary font being CMU Serif, to be precise). It can be found by Googling it. I also distribute the fonts as an NPM library, since they are OFL. [1] [1]: https://github.com/stevenpetryk/computer-modern
Ah, so it has TeX/Metafont origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…
> Multiple people I knew and respected wished me a horrific death for expressing my opinions Someone here took exception to me saying that I have never had any trouble with wearing masks, went and left a generically threatening comment on my blog. > I mean god forbid anybody express any disagreement with perhaps the most authoritarian, unscientific power grab in human history. The shit that went down was pure evil. A…
> wearing masks during a global pandemic that lowered global life expectancy by about 2 years, or to put it differently "killed between 1 and 3 times as many as the literal Holocaust"?
And forcing people to wear completely useless cloth masks for years did almost nothing to change those numbers. Same with virtually every single other non-pharmaceutical intervention.
Virus is gonna virus. You can’t stop it and even if you could it doesn’t make the means to do so ethical, legal or moral.
Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
#90I 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
This guy is a natural born educator. 'Content creator' doesn't begin to describe his value to society.