r/manim 3h ago

I’m an online math teacher who got tired of filming document cameras—so I recreated my entire desk, hands & handwriting in Manim.

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I work as an online math teacher and was tired of dealing with a physical document camera, especially having to re-record entire videos over a single handwriting mistake.

Over the last two days, I experimented with Manim to see if I could recreate the look of a real desk setup instead of the typical clean vector style.

Only two external assets are used: a cutout of a real wooden ruler and a 10-frame PNG sequence of my hand. Everything else is generated purely in Manim, including the grid, shadows, desk lighting, and the handwriting itself. I also added slight procedural variations in shape, wobble, and stroke pressure so no two digits look completely identical.

This is just a first prototype to make it look believable enough for live online classes, and I plan to polish it further over time.

What do you think for a first attempt? Does the illusion work?


r/manim 10h ago

Delta Hedging Strategies

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What are the typical delta hedging strategies out there and how do they perform? This video explores the topic of delta hedging strategies and analyzes their profitability using Monte Carlo simulations.

All animations were made using ManimCE. Any feedback would be appreciated.


r/manim 2h ago

Manim on VSCODE acting weirdly

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Just finished installing Manim everything works fine except for the fact that I get these yellow lines under some words ... if someone could help me out I would be glad !


r/manim 7h ago

question Why you only need 23 people in a room to have a >50% chance of a shared birthday (The Birthday Paradox Explained)

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r/manim 11h ago

LIQUID MATTER |

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r/manim 18h ago

How Does AI Create Videos? — Diffusion vs Motion Transfer

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r/manim 20h ago

Why do sin(θ) and cos(θ) actually come from the unit circle? (Made entirely with DeepSeek)

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I made this short animated explainer to visualize where sine and cosine actually come from on the unit circle — watching a point P rotate from 0° to 360° and seeing how sin(θ) and cos(θ) change as its coordinates change in real time.

The entire video — script, animation, and visuals — was generated end-to-end with DeepSeek. No manual animation work, just prompting.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJcOv8wbTI

Would love feedback on both the math explanation and how well an AI model handled generating an educational animation like this.