v0.2.0

Date:

January 1, 2021

The changes since Manim Community release v0.1.1 are listed below.

Breaking Changes

  • Remove all CONFIG dictionaries and all calls to digest_config and allow passing options directly to the constructor of the corresponding classes (PR #783).

    Practically, this means that old constructions using CONFIG like:

    class SomeMobject(Thing):
    CONFIG = {
        "my_awesome_property": 42
    }

    where corresponding objects were then instantiated as my_mobject = SomeMobject() should now be created simply using my_mobject = SomeMobject(my_awesome_property=42).

  • Remove old syntax for animating mobject methods by passing the methods and arguments to self.play, and use a new syntax featuring the animate property (PR #881).

    For example: the old-style play call

    self.play(my_square.shift, LEFT)

    should be replaced with the new following call using the animate property:

    self.play(my_square.animate.shift(LEFT))

New Features

  • Added creation animation for ManimBanner (PR #814)

  • Added some documentation to construct() (PR #753)

  • Added a black and white monochromatic version of Manim’s logo (PR #826)

  • Added support for a plugin system (manim plugin subcommand + documentation) (PR #784)

  • Implemented __add__, __iadd__, __sub__, and __isub__ for Mobject (allowing for notation like some_vgroup + some_mobject) (PR #790)

  • Added type hints to several files in the library (PR #835)

  • Added some examples to creation (PR #820)

  • Added some examples to DashedLine and CurvesAsSubmobjects (PR #833)

  • Added new implementation for text rendered with Pango, MarkupText, which can be formatted with an HTML-like syntax (PR #855)

  • Added Fading in and out examples and deprecation of FadeInFromDown and FadeOutAndShiftDown (PR #827)

  • Added example for MoveAlongPath to the docs (PR #873)

  • Added ambient rotate for other angles - theta, phi, gamma (PR #660)

  • Use custom bindings for Pango (PR #878)

  • Added Graph, a basic implementation for (graph theory) graphs (PR #861)

  • Allow for chaining methods when using the new .animate syntax in play() (PR #889)

Bugfixes

  • Fix doctests in .rst files (PR #797)

  • Fix failing doctest after adding manim plugin subcommand (PR #831)

  • Normalize the direction vector in always_shift() (PR #839)

  • Add disable_ligatures to Text (via PR #804)

  • Make scene caching aware of order of Mobjects (PR #845)

  • Fix CairoText to work with new config structure (PR #858)

  • Added missing argument to classes inheriting from Matrix (PR #859)

  • Fixed: z_index of mobjects contained in others as submobjects is now properly respected (PR #872)

  • Let set_fill_by_checkboard() return the modified surface to allow method chaining (PR #883)

  • Mobjects added during an updater are added to Scene.moving_mobjects (PR #838)

  • Pass background color to JS renderer (PR #876)

  • Small fixes to docstrings. Tiny cleanups. Remove digest_mobject_attrs. (PR #834)

  • Added closed shape detection in DashedVMobject in order to achieve an even dash pattern (PR #884)

  • Fix Spelling in docstrings and variables across the library (PR #890)

Other changes

  • Change library name to manim (PR #811)

  • Docker: use local files when building an image (PR #803)

  • Let ffmpeg render partial movie files directly instead of temp files (PR #817)

  • manimce to manim & capitalizing Manim in readme (PR #794)

  • Added flowchart for different docstring categories (PR #828)

  • Improve example in module docstring of creation + explicitly document buff parameter in arrange() (PR #825)

  • Disable CI pipeline for Python 3.6 (PR #823)

  • Update URLs in docs (PR #832)

  • Move upcoming changelog to GitHub-wiki (PR #822)

  • Change badges in readme (PR #854)

  • Exclude generated gRPC files from source control (PR #868)

  • Added linguist-generated attribute to .gitattributes (PR #877)

  • Cleanup: removed inheritance from object for some classes, refactor some imports (PR #795)

  • Change several str.format() to f-strings (PR #867)

  • Update javascript renderer (PR #830)

  • Bump version number to 0.2.0, update changelog (PR #894)