How are mathematical animations made?

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  • manim

    Animation engine for explanatory math videos

  • 3blue1brown has in fact written his own software to do these kinds of animations. It's called manim and it's open source on Github ->https://github.com/3b1b/manim

  • manim

    A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations. (by ManimCommunity)

  • There is also a community maintained version ->https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

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  • geogebra

    GeoGebra apps (mirror)

  • Other approaches to do these kinds of animation would be to plot the graphs and equations in software like Desmos or GeoGebra and edit them together in a video editor. Alternatively, you could create it like you would create motion graphics with Adobe Illustrator + After Effects (or similar software).

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