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  jasonjmcghee
  Motion Canvas is a mature / popular solution in the "manim but typescript" space for those unfamiliar.It can be used for interactive blog posts and embedded animations etc as well.It also has a built in animation editor / timeline.https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas
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  jbreckmckye
  How much of the work here was done by an agent?(Being AI accelerated doesn't make this project low value. But it does mean _you_ didn't do the port so much as prompt it)
• tenpa0000
  This is great timing — I've been putting off making animated diagrams for a blog post because the Manim setup was too much friction for what I needed.Tried the live demo and the 3D orbit scene is surprisingly smooth. Curious about a couple things:- How are you handling the animation interpolation? Manim's rate functions (smooth, there_and_back, etc.) have some quirks that are easy to get subtly wrong. Did you reimplement those from scratch or find a way to match the Python easing curves exactly? - For the py2ts converter — how far does it get on real-world scripts? I have a few older Manim CE scripts with custom VMobjects and I'm wondering if it handles subclassing or if it's more of a "simple scenes only" thing.One suggestion: it'd be really useful to have an export-to-GIF or export-to-MP4 option directly in the browser (maybe via MediaRecorder API). A lot of the Manim use case is generating assets for slides/posts, not just live playback.
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  itishappy
  Bug reports:The entire Manim CE Logo example, the `x - x_1` text from the Brace Annotation example, all text from the Sin Cos Plot example, and the entire Heat Diagram example all flicker roughly once per second.The text looks rather fuzzy, especially the large M from the Manim CE Logo example.The Three D Light Source example also doesn't appear to have any functioning directional lighting.
• somethingsome
  Very nice project, I see many use cases.However, I use Manim for maths, for me having computational libraries (python) is a requirement. Most of the transformations that I do are found by using linear algebra, calculus and sometimes full neural networks. All my geometry is computed, not placed by hand.I'm wondering if it would not be possible to have a 'canvas' backend for the web in the python version instead.Btw, Manim is kind of easy to install in its own docker ;)
• lioeters
  Looks great! Just started exploring the docs, the links under each example with heading "Learn More" are not clickable. Congrats on the launch, I'll enjoy learning more about it.
• ziotom78
  Thank you! I regularly use Reveal.js to create interactive slide decks for my classes, and your project will be a great tool to have!
• anematode
  Amazing!! This is a project I've wanted to tackle for years but never got the chance to properly do.
• sriram_malhar
  This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
• socalgal2
  thank you! this is awesome!!!I'm far more into the web than python and have wanted something I could drop into a web page.
• unova
  Congrats! This looks awesome!
• hamishwhc
  Now someone’s going to write a react-manim renderer I’m sure.