Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by hyperpallium on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:33AM
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It's different people making the different complaints.
In general, you can't please all the people all the time.
GP isn't a complaint, but constructive criticism. When we lose the ability to tolerate criticism, we lose the capability of progress.
Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by quickthrower2 on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:34AM
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It's not that constructive though, just seems like a complaint.
Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by bosie on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:28AM
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How do you differentiate those two things?
Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by quickthrower2 on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:19AM
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To me constructive means there is a suggestion of how to improve.
Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by bitforger on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:46PM
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Don't get me wrong, I love his videos, and I think it's really nice of him to open-source the stuff.
But like some of the other comments have mentioned, it's not a general purpose tool... it's more like he open-sourced his dot files.
You can certainly make a few things work, but it would be nice to see a community of interested individuals come together to flesh out the abstractions, make sure everything is documented and works as advertised. As it is now, the class hierarchy is a little... misshapen. It's not clear what classes are responsible for what functionality, and how everything fits together in a nice, orthogonal way.
Re:Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory ma...
by GuiA on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:21AM
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People don’t know what they want. Or rather, they conflate what they want with real things that are close to, but not quite exactly, what they had in their mind. They then get frustrated because it doesn’t match what they imagined the whole time... but nobody told them it was!
'A few hacks thrown together' seems awfully pejorative. It is a tool he has developed over the years to enable him to produce the high-quality videos he releases.