My biggest problem with Manim is the long feedback loop as you (last time i used it) have to render the animation to view it. But it is a really valuable tool.
With p5.js you can get an instant feedback loop and have the animation frame number available with a little effort.
Thanks, it's a bit unexpected. How good is Power Point for math intensive animations? I am not sure I could easily (or at all) recreate most of the demos from mainm repo, but maybe I am missing something. I will have a look, I am intrigued.
I have made animations with it with enough Math and Deep Learning that were presented both in-company and outside where work done with animations made in PP even won awards.
The Deep Learning papers one sees in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc. almost all have diagrams made in PP in them.
Using PP has made my life easier.
I even use Google Docs when I do not need animation.
I am a primary Linux user, and I keep at least one machine running Windows because of PP.
Mathologer on YouTube uses PowerPoint (or keynote, don’t remember exactly). He has great math animations. I’m sure it takes a ton of time to make. (It would also take a ton of time to make with manim.)
I have actually done both, and the time taken to do the same task in PowerPoint is much lower. I would say 1/5th or 2/5th.
Also, as I said, the experience of writing code with Manim Community is not good.
If you have experience using prewritten libraries (i.e. you are not an academic or traditional Data Scienctist, and have proper programming experience), you will see that Manim is a bad tool. Not mincing words.
Yes, it takes time. But you get better and spee increases.
