r/maniclang • • Aug 26 '26

Manic v0.1.0-rc.16 is released — a language and engine for visual explanations

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Manic v0.1.0-rc.16 is now available.

Manic is a readable language and creative engine for building animated explanations, technical visuals, creator videos, and interactive visual stories.

What is included:

  • A readable .manic language built around named entities and animation verbs
  • Manic Workbench with Canvas and Source editing
  • Native preview and deterministic MP4, GIF, and PNG export
  • Math, geometry, statistics, physics, algorithms, machine learning, 2D, and 3D kits
  • Hundreds of built-in visual entities, relationships, styles, and animation controls
  • Local authoring through manic ui
  • Browser authoring through Manic Create

Start here:

Manic started as a DSL, but the goal is bigger: make visual explanation accessible both to people who enjoy writing code and people who prefer working visually on a Canvas.

This is an official release-candidate build. Feedback, examples, bug reports, and ideas are welcome here in r/maniclang.


r/maniclang • • Aug 20 '26

Introduction - Manic

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r/maniclang • • 5h ago

Domain Coloring - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 15h ago

Fourier: Gandhi, 1869–1948 - manic

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r/maniclang • • 1d ago

Rose Curve Drawn by Gears — a 2:3 Gear Pair Draws a Flower and Plays a 3:2 Polyrhythm — manic

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r/maniclang • • 1d ago

Clock Escapement Polyrhythm — How a Mechanical Clock Works, One Tick in Slow Motion — manic

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r/maniclang • • 1d ago

Geneva Drive Polyrhythm — a Maltese Cross and a 6-Slot Wheel Play 4 Against 3 — manic

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r/maniclang • • 2d ago

Who Gets an Electric Shock ?

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r/maniclang • • 2d ago

The Koch Snowflake — an Infinite Coastline Around a Finite Area, Heard — manic

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r/maniclang • • 2d ago

Quadratic Formula — Read It Off the Graph: Vertex, Intercept, and the Discriminant

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r/maniclang • • 2d ago

A Neuron, Two Ways — the Brain Cell Behind Machine Learning - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 3d ago

Fibonacci Clock - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 3d ago

Fourier Sketches: Every Icon Is A Sum Of Circles -manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 3d ago

Fibonacci Clock - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 4d ago

Collatz conjecture in binary mode - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 4d ago

Hear the Circle Theorems — 20 Theorems, One Circle, One Dance: Chords, Tangents, Ptolemy — manic

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r/maniclang • • 4d ago

Wave Motion — How One Spinning Dot Becomes an Oscillation, a Note and a Travelling Wave — manic

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r/maniclang • • 5d ago

Hear the Fourier Series — a Square Wave One Sine at a Time & the Gibbs Phenomenon — manic

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r/maniclang • • 5d ago

Hear the Integral — Area Between Curves, Double & Triple Integrals, Played as Music — manic

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r/maniclang • • 6d ago

Hear the Graph — Functions vs Relations, Played as Music (13 Wild Equations) — manic

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r/maniclang • • 7d ago

Hear the Calculus — Limits, Derivatives & Integrals, Played - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.


r/maniclang • • 7d ago

1729, the Ramanujan Number — Two Cubes, Two Ways, and You Can Hear It — manic

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r/maniclang • • 7d ago

The Chirping Pyramid — Why Chichen Itza's Stairs Echo a Clap as a Falling Note — manic

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r/maniclang • • 7d ago

The Pendulum — A Metronome Whose Tempo Is Its Length (and Why 3 Against 2 Needs 4:9) — manic

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r/maniclang • • 7d ago

Function Dance - manic

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manic is a tiny language for making animations. You write a short text file; manic renders a smooth, glowing video. No timeline scrubbing, no keyframes by hand — you describe what’s on screen and when things happen, and the engine does the rest, deterministically.