Getting Started With manim
I’ve been working on creating a Linux tutorial lately and I wanted to make the guide not so… drab. The 3blue1brown videos really have grown on me, and I wanted to do something with manim.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t so easy to get started, as documentation is still in the early staged with manim. With some poking around, however, I was able to create this sequence, which I was satisfied with.
My first approach though felt really clunky with a lot of manual play() and wait() calls, where I was specifically choreographing the fading in and out of text and descriptions.
I knew that describing command line prompts/results would lead to a lot of this repetition, and would be very tedious, but I’d be following the same script of:
- Show the line
- Fade out everything but the first Mobject
- Fade in descriptions and subsequent Mobjects
So, I created a small library that condenses that clunky gist into a few simple lines of code, and called it manim-linuxMobject. Check it out!