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Algan v0.0.2
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Algan v0.0.2
  • Installation
  • Tutorials & Guides
    • New User Tutorials
      • Getting Started
      • Basic Animations
      • Combining Animations
      • Grouping Mobs
      • Updaters
      • Your First 3-D Scene
      • Where To Next
    • Galleries
      • The Mob Gallery
      • Built-in Animations
    • Advanced User Tutorials
      • Positioning and Layout
      • Bezier Curves and Circuits
      • Text and Mathematics
      • Importing From Manim
      • Cameras
      • Lighting and Shadows
      • Shaders and Materials
      • Reflections and Glass
      • Images and Textures
      • Importing 3-D Models
      • Backgrounds and Post-Processing
      • Transparent Backgrounds
      • Audio and Speech
      • Custom Animations
      • Animating Out of Order
      • Multi-Scene Projects
      • Performance and Quality
      • Renderer Limitations
      • Settings
      • Saving Videos and Images
      • The Render Daemon
      • Extending Algan
    • Manim Migration Guide
    • Developer Tutorials
      • An Overview of Algan’s Internals
  • Reference Manual
    • Scenes
      • scene
        • Scene
        • active_scene_method
      • scene_manager
        • SceneManager
      • render_loop
        • RenderLoopMixin
        • algan.render_loop.EmptySceneWarning
      • project
        • Project
      • daemon
      • viewer
        • ViewerHandle
      • session
        • ViewerSession
      • hierarchy
      • pixels
        • PixelRecord
    • Animation
      • animatable
        • Animatable
      • mob
        • Mob
      • mob_hierarchy
        • MobHierarchyMixin
      • mob_orientation
        • MobOrientationMixin
      • mob_movement
        • MobMovementMixin
      • mob_layout
        • MobLayoutMixin
      • mob_morph
        • MobMorphMixin
      • mob_materials
        • MobMaterialsMixin
      • animation_contexts
        • AnimationContext
        • AnimationManager
        • Audio
        • ComposedEasing
        • Lag
        • NoExtra
        • Off
        • OnInit
        • Seq
        • SlideShow
        • Speech
        • Sync
      • timeline
        • AnimationTimeline
        • AttributeTimeline
        • EditQueryIndex
        • EditRecord
        • FunctionApplicationEvent
        • FunctionTimeline
        • Lifespan
        • RowRanges
        • SegmentWindow
        • TimelineEvent
        • TimelineManager
        • TimelineSpan
        • UpdaterEvent
        • UpdaterSpan
      • manim_animations
      • movement
      • changing
        • AnimatedBoundary
      • indication
    • Core
      • errors
        • algan.errors.AlganConfigurationError
        • algan.errors.AlganError
        • algan.errors.AlganWarning
        • algan.errors.ApproximationWarning
        • algan.errors.AudioTranscriptMismatchError
        • algan.errors.ContextReuseError
        • algan.errors.DespawnedMobWarning
        • algan.errors.HierarchyChangedDuringUpdaterWarning
        • algan.errors.HierarchyError
        • algan.errors.InvalidColorError
        • algan.errors.LegacySceneDiscoveryWarning
        • algan.errors.ModifiedProtectedAttributeError
        • algan.errors.NeverSpawnedMobWarning
        • algan.errors.UnsupportedFeatureError
        • algan.errors.UnsupportedFeatureWarning
      • color
        • Color
      • material_presets
      • spatial
      • math
      • easings
      • geometry
      • logger
    • Mobs
      • group
        • Group
      • text
        • Code
        • MarkupText
        • Paragraph
        • Tex
        • TexTriangulated
        • Text
        • TextTriangulated
      • image_mob
        • ImageMob
      • image_compat
        • AbstractImageMobject
        • ImageMobject
        • ImageMobjectFromCamera
        • OpenGLImageMobject
      • manim_compat
        • Angle
        • AnnotationDot
        • AnnularSector
        • Annulus
        • Arc
        • ArcBetweenPoints
        • ArcBrace
        • ArcPolygon
        • ArcPolygonFromArcs
        • Arrow
        • Arrow3D
        • ArrowCircleFilledTip
        • ArrowCircleTip
        • ArrowSquareFilledTip
        • ArrowSquareTip
        • ArrowTip
        • ArrowTriangleFilledTip
        • ArrowTriangleTip
        • ArrowVectorField
        • Axes
        • BackgroundRectangle
        • BarChart
        • Brace
        • BraceBetweenPoints
        • BraceLabel
        • BraceText
        • BulletedList
        • Circle
        • Code
        • ComplexPlane
        • ComplexValueTracker
        • Cone
        • ConvexHull
        • ConvexHull3D
        • Cross
        • Cube
        • CubicBezier
        • CurvedArrow
        • CurvedDoubleArrow
        • CurvesAsSubmobjects
        • Cutout
        • Cylinder
        • DashedLine
        • DashedVMobject
        • DecimalMatrix
        • DecimalNumber
        • DecimalTable
        • DiGraph
        • Difference
        • Dodecahedron
        • Dot
        • Dot3D
        • DoubleArrow
        • Elbow
        • Ellipse
        • Exclusion
        • FullScreenRectangle
        • FunctionGraph
        • Graph
        • Group
        • Icosahedron
        • ImplicitFunction
        • Integer
        • IntegerMatrix
        • IntegerTable
        • Intersection
        • Label
        • LabeledArrow
        • LabeledDot
        • LabeledLine
        • LabeledPolygram
        • Line
        • Line3D
        • ManimBanner
        • ManimCompatMob
        • MarkupText
        • MathTable
        • MathTex
        • MathTexPart
        • Matrix
        • MobjectMatrix
        • MobjectTable
        • NumberLine
        • NumberPlane
        • Octahedron
        • OpenGLAnnularSector
        • OpenGLAnnulus
        • OpenGLArc
        • OpenGLArcBetweenPoints
        • OpenGLArrow
        • OpenGLArrowTip
        • OpenGLCircle
        • OpenGLCubicBezier
        • OpenGLCurvedArrow
        • OpenGLCurvedDoubleArrow
        • OpenGLCurvesAsSubmobjects
        • OpenGLDashedLine
        • OpenGLDashedVMobject
        • OpenGLDot
        • OpenGLDoubleArrow
        • OpenGLElbow
        • OpenGLEllipse
        • OpenGLGroup
        • OpenGLLine
        • OpenGLPoint
        • OpenGLPolygon
        • OpenGLRectangle
        • OpenGLRegularPolygon
        • OpenGLRoundedRectangle
        • OpenGLSector
        • OpenGLSquare
        • OpenGLTangentLine
        • OpenGLTipableVMobject
        • OpenGLTriangle
        • OpenGLVGroup
        • OpenGLVMobject
        • OpenGLVector
        • OpenGLVectorizedPoint
        • Paragraph
        • ParametricFunction
        • Point
        • PolarPlane
        • Polygon
        • Polygram
        • Polyhedron
        • Prism
        • Rectangle
        • RegularPolygon
        • RegularPolygram
        • RightAngle
        • RoundedRectangle
        • SVGMobject
        • SampleSpace
        • ScreenRectangle
        • Sector
        • SingleStringMathTex
        • Sphere
        • Square
        • Star
        • StealthTip
        • StreamLines
        • Surface
        • SurroundingRectangle
        • Table
        • TangentLine
        • TangentialArc
        • Tetrahedron
        • Tex
        • Text
        • ThreeDAxes
        • ThreeDVMobject
        • TipableVMobject
        • Title
        • Torus
        • Triangle
        • Underline
        • Union
        • UnitInterval
        • VDict
        • VGroup
        • VMobject
        • VMobjectFromSVGPath
        • ValueTracker
        • Variable
        • Vector
        • VectorField
        • VectorizedPoint
      • opengl_compat
        • OpenGLSurface
        • OpenGLSurfaceGroup
        • OpenGLSurfaceMesh
        • OpenGLTexturedSurface
      • bezier_circuit
        • BezierCircuitCubic
        • BezierCurveCubic
      • triangulated_bezier_circuit
        • TriangulatedBezierCircuit
      • shapes_2d
        • Circle
        • Dot
        • Line
        • Point
        • Polygon
        • Quad
        • QuadTriangulated
        • Rectangle
        • RegularPolygon
        • Square
        • SurroundingRectangle
        • Triangle
        • TriangleTriangulated
        • TriangleVertices
      • shapes_3d
        • Arrow3D
        • Cone
        • ConvexHull3D
        • Cube
        • Cylinder
        • Dodecahedron
        • Dot3D
        • Icosahedron
        • Line3D
        • Octahedron
        • Polyhedron
        • Prism
        • Sphere
        • Tetrahedron
        • Torus
      • point_cloud
        • DotCloud
        • Mobject1D
        • Mobject2D
        • OpenGLPGroup
        • OpenGLPMPoint
        • OpenGLPMobject
        • PGroup
        • PMobject
        • PointCloudDot
        • TrueDot
      • surface
        • Surface
      • procedural_textures
      • three_d_models
      • mesh
        • TriangleMesh
      • model_mob
        • Model3D
      • assimp_loader
      • gltf_loader
      • scene_data
        • AnimationData
        • MaterialData
        • MeshData
        • NodeAnimation
        • NodeData
        • SceneData
        • SkinData
      • manim_mob
        • ManimMob
      • numeric_display
        • DecimalNumber
    • Rendering
      • camera
        • Camera
      • lights
        • AmbientLight
        • DirectionalLight
        • HemisphereLight
        • Light
        • PointLight
        • RectAreaLight
        • SpotLight
      • materials
        • AdvancedPBRMaterial
        • DiffuseMaterial
        • ManimMaterial
        • Material
        • MeshBasicMaterial
        • MeshDepthMaterial
        • MeshLambertMaterial
        • MeshMatcapMaterial
        • MeshNormalMaterial
        • MeshPhongMaterial
        • MeshPhysicalMaterial
        • MeshStandardMaterial
        • MeshToonMaterial
        • PBRMaterial
        • Side
        • SpecularMaterial
        • UnlitMaterial
      • material_shaders
      • pbr_shaders
      • fragment_shaders
        • FragmentPipelineShader
        • FragmentStage
      • tracer
        • RenderPlan
      • raytracing
      • settings
      • truncation
        • TruncationCounts
      • denoise
      • primitive
        • RenderPrimitive
        • algan.rendering.primitives.primitive.OutOfRenderMemory
      • triangle_primitive
        • TrianglePrimitive
      • bezier_circuit_primitive
        • BezierCircuitPrimitive
      • post_processing
      • memory_model
        • AffineFrameCost
        • ChunkMemoryModel
        • PeakRatioModel
    • Settings
      • settings
      • abstract_settings
        • Settings
      • root_settings
        • AlganSettings
        • SettingsSnapshot
      • video_settings
        • VideoSettings
      • computing_settings
        • ComputingSettings
      • path_settings
        • PathSettings
      • style_settings
        • StyleSettings
      • raytracing_settings
        • RayTracingPreset
        • RayTracingSettings
    • Utilities
      • algan_utils
        • RenderResult
      • animation_utils
      • file_utils
      • memory_utils
        • AllocationRecorder
        • ManualMemory
        • ScopeRecord
        • TempMemoryContext
        • algan.utils.memory_utils.InsufficientMemoryException
      • mob_utils
        • BatchedMobViewSequence
      • manim_svg_cache
      • singleton
        • Singleton
      • tensor_utils
      • python_utils
      • audio_effect
        • AudioEffect
        • AudioManager
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • FAQ: General Usage
  • Contributing
    • Development
  • Changelog
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Frequently Asked Questions¶

Table of Contents

  • FAQ: General Usage
    • Why is my video empty?
    • Why is my first render slow?
    • Do I need a dedicated GPU?
    • Can I keep animating after calling save_video()?
    • Why didn’t my change to SETTINGS.video do anything?
    • What changes when samples_per_pixel is greater than 1?
    • Why is my LaTeX not compiling?
    • Why won’t my transparent video play?
    • Where are my rendered files saved?
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