Importing From Manim

Algan provides a bunch of built-in Mobs, but our collection is nowhere as extensive as Manim’s. So we provide functionality to import Mobs directly from Manim. This way you can make use of the vast collection of Mobs defined by Manim.

Important

You must install the Manim package to your Python environment in order to use Manim Mobs.

Note

You can only import mobs from Manim, but not animations. If there is a Manim animation you wish to use you will need to recreate it yourself in Algan.

The ManinMob

Importing is straightforward, just create a ManimMob object and pass in a Manim Mobject as the parameter.

Example: ImportingManimMob

from algan import *
import manim as mn

# Let's grab a complex plane from the manim library.
mob = ManimMob(mn.ComplexPlane().add_coordinates()).spawn()

# Now we have a mob that we can animate using Algan!
with Seq(run_time=5):
    mob.scale(0.5)
    mob.rotate(90, OUT)

render_to_file()

from algan import *
import manim as mn

# Let's grab a complex plane from the manim library.
mob = ManimMob(mn.ComplexPlane().add_coordinates()).spawn()

# Now we have a mob that we can animate using Algan!
with Seq(run_time=5):
    mob.scale(0.5)
    mob.rotate(90, OUT)

render_to_file()

Important

Do not use both from algan import * and from manim import *, as this will lead to clashing definitions. You must give them one of them a name, as in this example where we name manim as mn.