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Show HN: Wanim – Embed interactive 3Blue1Brown-style animations in your blog

https://github.com/Acfboy/Wanim

Hi HN, I love 3Blue1Brown's animations and Manim, the Python animation engine behind them. So I wanted to run it in my blog to build interactive animations. But that wasn't easy. Running it with Pyodide is too heavy.I came up with a new approach: by patching rapydscript-ng (a tool that transpiles Python-like syntax to JS), I make it translate Manim code into JS, and pair it with a companion JS...

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Show HN: Wanim – Manim in the browser, but 1/20 smaller

https://github.com/Acfboy/Wanim

Hi HN, I really like Manim, but when I tried to use it to make interactive small demos on the web, I found that no project can simultaneously satisfy running original manim python code without carrying the bulky pyodide which makes it impossible to embed. So I made one. My idea is to rewrite a js library that is almost completely identical to manim, and then patch rapydscript-ng to translate...

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Interesting idea. Whether the marketing and promotion strategy used in the project is backed by real-world data or practical experience?