These are indeed quite cool. I went to look up who this is, and I found the following Pokemon agent-based model of his: https://twitter.com/matthen2/status/1543226572592783362

Super cool. I'd be interested if he has a write up for how he creates the animations, especially the panning and zooming around, which is quite nice.

He also appeared in a number of Numberphile episodes on YouTube (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKgImYwrKIL3iWw...).

Interesting! I recently wanted to make something similar and I completely fell in love with https://www.manim.community/ created by 3B1B.

There’s also https://reanimate.github.io/, which is the same thing for Haskell.

3B1B is incredible. I loved his video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k) using Fourier series to make epicycle animations. I worked through the details to make my own: https://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/

How is this different than Brilliant?

Free and open source

Both great tools, but for different applications.

Brilliant is an education platform. Manim is an animation tool.

Manim animations could be used for education, but I do not believe Brilliant can be used to create custom animations.

The disappointment that the gravity link is dead :(

I appreciate the occasional analogue entry.

(also: https://blog.matthen.com/post/21277018974/it-can-be-hard-for... )

While at it, let me just say that I’ve become a big fan of Desmos (https://www.desmos.com/). I’m in no way affiliated with them, just a happy casual user.

Does anyone know of a forum that discusses making this kind of thing? I am making some illustrations and struggling with questions such as a good range of colors that display well both on a computer screen and on a beamer. It'd be great to have folks to talk with.

I guess the Processing/p5.js people are the ones

+1 for Processing. Amazing tool to iterate quickly on these sorts of ideas.

another +1 I can't recommend Processing/p5.js enough

manim had a Discord.

Thanks, did not know that. Will look.

I just can't trust anyone who mentions "maths".

It’s pretty much only North America that calls it “math”. All the rest of the English-speaking world calls it “maths”.

TIL.

He has a YouTube video where he explains in quite detail how he makes his animations. His most important software tools are Adobe After Effects and Python with matplotlib.