ManimGX

Overview

ManimGX is an open-source 3D animation engine by Academa for creating math and 3D videos with Manim CE's Python API. Its Rust and wgpu renderer produces native MP4 videos quickly, and a browser path uses npm, Pyodide, and WebGPU.

Key Features

• Compatible with Manim CE's Python API, including typed keyword arguments and .animate chains.
• Rust and wgpu renderer for native GPU rendering and WebGPU in the browser.
• 2D and 3D scenes together, with surfaces, meshes, moving cameras, text, equations, and plots.
• Browser embedding via npm install manimgx, Pyodide in a Web Worker, and WebGPU, with no render server.
• Agent feedback through manimgx inspect, including storyboards and 2D layout checks at chosen play endings or times.
• Text and math via LaTeX or Typst without a LaTeX installation, plus speech-aligned animations with self.say().

Use Cases

• Creating explanatory math animations from Python scenes.
• Rendering 1080p60 MP4 videos natively from scripts.
• Embedding rendered scenes in web pages without a render server.
• Letting coding agents generate and inspect 3D or math animations from prompts and llms.txt setup instructions.

Getting Started

• Install with pip on macOS, Linux, or Windows using Python 3.13+: pip install manimgx.
• Alternatively, paste the project's llms.txt setup instructions into Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor so the agent handles setup.
• Save a scene as scene.py and render it with manimgx render scene.py; the example produces Hello3D.mp4 at 1080p60.

Deployment & Requirements

• Python 3.13+ on macOS, Linux, or Windows for pip installation.
• Fonts, typesetting, and video encoding are included.
• Native rendering uses wgpu; Linux wheels bundle Mesa's lavapipe for Vulkan rendering on CPU when no suitable GPU is available.
• Browser use requires npm install manimgx, Pyodide in a Web Worker, and WebGPU.

Before You Adopt

• License: MIT. Review its terms before using, modifying, or distributing the project.
• Browser-based execution relies on Python running in a Web Worker and WebGPU rendering.