THE VIDEO SHELF · math animation with manim
How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks
Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown shows his workflow for animating math videos with Manim, with Ben Sparks. He codes scenes live, including a Lorenz attractor, and walks through example scenes.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a rare detailed look at how 3b1b videos are made, including live debugging of his rendering engine.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 3Blue1Brown
- Topic
- math animation with manim
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Grant's work with 3blue1brown and Manim is simply amazing. The quality of the videos is so high, not the least thanks to the visualizations. Not an easy task given the abstract nature of the topic. It's linked in the readme, but I want to highlight …
emaro on Hacker News · 2025-08
In Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videosIt was impressive how he spotted a bug in his rendering engine and found a workaround for it in realtime! [VIDEO]
vindex10 on Hacker News · 2024-10
In How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]there is at least one video, if not a series of videos, where he explains his process in detail, showing the coding process and everything. it is a collaboration with another person where, if i recall, he is teaching them. i will see if i …
john_strinlai on Hacker News · 2026-03
In This picture broke my brain [3B1B video]
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