How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks
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A behind-the-scenes look at how I animate videos.
Code for all the videos: https://github.com/3b1b/videos
Manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Community edition: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
Example scenes shown near the end: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/master/example_scenes.py
I added some more details about the workflow shown in this video to the readme of the videos repo: https://github.com/3b1b/videos?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow
These lessons are funded directly by viewers: https://3b1b.co/support
Timestamp:
0:00 - Intro
2:39 - Hello World
10:32 - Coding up a Lorenz attractor
23:46 - Add some tracking points
28:52 - The globals().update(locals()) hack
32:57 - Final styling on the scene
41:42 - Rending the scene
44:35 - Adding equations
48:43 - Where to start
SEV2: https://youtu.be/XEafCqcwBLs
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These animations are largely made using a custom Python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here:
https://3b1b.co/faq#manim
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
All code for specific videos is visible here:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos/
The music is by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://www.vincentrubinetti.com
https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown
https://open.spotify.com/album/1dVyjwS8FBqXhRunaG5W5u
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e to the pi i, a nontraditional take (old version)
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Euler's Formula Poem
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Euler's Formula and Graph Duality
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What does it feel like to invent math?
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How to count to 1000 on two hands
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Music And Measure Theory
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Fractal charm: Space filling curves
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The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz
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Snell's law proof using springs
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Triangle of Power
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Essence of linear algebra preview
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Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra
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Linear combinations, span, and basis vectors | Chapter 2, Essence of linear algebra
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Linear transformations and matrices | Chapter 3, Essence of linear algebra
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Matrix multiplication as composition | Chapter 4, Essence of linear algebra
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Three-dimensional linear transformations | Chapter 5, Essence of linear algebra
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The determinant | Chapter 6, Essence of linear algebra
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Inverse matrices, column space and null space | Chapter 7, Essence of linear algebra
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Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions | Chapter 8, Essence of linear algebra
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Dot products and duality | Chapter 9, Essence of linear algebra
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Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Chapter 11, Essence of linear algebra
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Cross products | Chapter 10, Essence of linear algebra
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Change of basis | Chapter 13, Essence of linear algebra
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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues | Chapter 14, Essence of linear algebra
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Abstract vector spaces | Chapter 16, Essence of linear algebra
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Who cares about topology? (Old version)
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3blue1brown channel trailer
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Binary, Hanoi and Sierpinski, part 1
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Binary, Hanoi, and Sierpinski, part 2
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But what is the Riemann zeta function? Visualizing analytic continuation
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Tattoos on Math
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Fractals are typically not self-similar
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Euler's formula with introductory group theory
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The essence of calculus
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The paradox of the derivative | Chapter 2, Essence of calculus
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Derivative formulas through geometry | Chapter 3, Essence of calculus
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Visualizing the chain rule and product rule | Chapter 4, Essence of calculus
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What's so special about Euler's number e? | Chapter 5, Essence of calculus
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Implicit differentiation, what's going on here? | Chapter 6, Essence of calculus
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Limits, L'Hôpital's rule, and epsilon delta definitions | Chapter 7, Essence of calculus
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Integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus | Chapter 8, Essence of calculus
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What does area have to do with slope? | Chapter 9, Essence of calculus
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Higher order derivatives | Chapter 10, Essence of calculus
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Taylor series | Chapter 11, Essence of calculus
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Pi hiding in prime regularities
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All possible pythagorean triples, visualized
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But how does bitcoin actually work?
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How secure is 256 bit security?
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Hilbert's Curve: Is infinite math useful?
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Thinking outside the 10-dimensional box
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Some light quantum mechanics (with minutephysics)
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But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1
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Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep Learning Chapter 2
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Backpropagation, intuitively | Deep Learning Chapter 3
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Backpropagation calculus | Deep Learning Chapter 4
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The hardest problem on the hardest test
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Q&A #2 + Net Neutrality Nuance
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Why this puzzle is impossible
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But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.
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The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms
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Chapters (9)
Intro
2:39
Hello World
10:32
Coding up a Lorenz attractor
23:46
Add some tracking points
28:52
The globals().update(locals()) hack
32:57
Final styling on the scene
41:42
Rending the scene
44:35
Adding equations
48:43
Where to start
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