3Blue1Brown: The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy

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    Code for the manim-generated scenes used in 3blue1brown videos

  • He's generally using his own tool called 'manim'. All of his code/animations are open-source. The code for this specific video can be found here: https://github.com/3b1b/videos/blob/master/_2022/wordle.py

  • manim

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

  • There is also the community fork of manim

    https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

    According to 3b1b on the main repo:

    "Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlier to get started with."

    https://github.com/3b1b/manim

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  • manim

    Animation engine for explanatory math videos

  • There is also the community fork of manim

    https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

    According to 3b1b on the main repo:

    "Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlier to get started with."

    https://github.com/3b1b/manim

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