Manim Q&A
Added 2023-02-01 05:58:30 +0000 UTC
Wonderful patrons,
Despite my original plans, I spent a fair bit of this month continuing with efforts I began in December to improve manim. Given that I've been putting so much time into this, and I know some people are curious about the process and workflows behind videos, I thought I'd do a casual Q&A live stream for patrons to answer any questions about manim.
I thought I'd share a bit about what the tool is, and how my workflow has changed with it over time. The floor is open, though, for anything you all might be curious about.
I'm assuming the weekend will be when people are most available, and for those of you interested in joining, kindly fill out the poll below with your preference for a time, if you have one.
I'll post the unlisted link to the live stream later this week once the schedule is firm. Even though it's mainly meant for Patreon supporters if there's someone you know you would enjoy joining, feel free to share the link.
In the meantime, feel free to kick off with any questions in the comments below.
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In other news, the artwork for the Galois saga continues to progress thanks to the tireless efforts of Kurt, and a few other contract contributors. Here's just a small taste with a few samples for the various styles we're leaning toward. More updates to come on that as things start to get more put together in February.
See you this weekend!
Grant
Comments
He's answered this before in interviews. One of his pupils is 3/4 blue and 1/4 brown, hence the name of the channel and the logo (which depicts an eye). He wants to share the way he sees math (and perhaps the world?) with others through this channel. Hope that helps!
2023-04-30 22:53:54 +0000 UTCCan you tell me how you came up with the name 3Blue1brown? I've asked many many times, no response!
John T. Draper
2023-02-20 16:07:41 +0000 UTCHmmm, hard to say because often when I have a clear answer to that question I just go in and make the change. I suppose the language choice might be a big one, in hindsight, there would be some real benefits to having it all in Javascript and more easily displayable on the web, and that's a fundamental enough change that I couldn't just decide to turn around and do it.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:40:09 +0000 UTCI'd love to talk about some of that! I'll say upfront a big part of my motivation for writing custom shaders there was more from a desire to learn, and I've always learned best by implementing things myself, as opposed to thinking I have some better algorithm than others out there. That said, the algorithms I did land on have a ton of interesting math, so would be fun to chat about.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:38:00 +0000 UTCI think of it mainly as an explanatory tool, but there have been many times when I feel like I gained further insight into a topic after coding up a visualization and seeing what it looked like.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:34:21 +0000 UTCI'll make sure the leave the link up so that it can be viewed after.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:33:19 +0000 UTCCertainly, depending on how many people are there I'll probably set it up so as to read questions from the chat associated with the live stream.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:32:23 +0000 UTCI talked about this a bit in a few past posts, here's one giving some better context: https://www.patreon.com/posts/epic-of-galois-69851213?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:31:43 +0000 UTCI'll definitely leave the link up for anyone who wants to watch afterward.
3blue1brown
2023-02-01 16:29:45 +0000 UTCI noticed some new changes in manim related to shaders and rendering and first thing that came to mind as a question is - have you found or thought of some optimisations to GL algorithms like filling shapes, antialiasing lines or bezier curves or maybe some other basic graphics algorithms? Another question - do you welcome manim ports to other languages?
2023-02-01 15:31:46 +0000 UTCQ: "Hindsight is a wonderful thing" as the quote goes, if you were to start over what changes would you make to manim knowing what you know now? Im particularly curious about the unkown unknowns that you encountered.
2023-02-01 09:20:34 +0000 UTCI also think a recording would be great. Q: Do you think manim is mainly an explanatory tool, or is there analytical capability beyond the components?
Jeremy
2023-02-01 09:09:20 +0000 UTCRecordings would be amazing!
2023-02-01 07:19:47 +0000 UTCSadly, I can't make any of those times. Would it be possible to view a recording?
2023-02-01 06:38:25 +0000 UTCsince I am somewhat involved in ManimCE now, it would be very interesting to hear your view about the two forks and efforts to reunite the project.
Uwe Zimmermann
2023-02-01 06:23:38 +0000 UTCWhat are the Galois sagas?
2023-02-01 06:12:49 +0000 UTCTime spent on Manim is time well spent—thanks for your efforts!
Tom Loredo
2023-02-01 06:07:38 +0000 UTCWill I be able to ask you questions?
John T. Draper
2023-02-01 06:02:57 +0000 UTC
