v0.7.0

Date:

June 01, 2021

Contributors

A total of 45 people contributed to this release. People with a ‘+’ by their names authored a patch for the first time.

• André +

• Anton Ballmaier

• Benjamin Hackl

• Clar Fon

• Darylgolden

• Devin Neal

• Hugues Devimeux

• Iced-Tea3 +

• Jan-Hendrik Müller

• Jason Villanueva

• Jerónimo Squartini +

• KingWampy

• Laith Bahodi

• Max Stoumen +

• Mohammad Al-Fetyani

• Naveen M K

• NeoPlato

• Newell Jensen

• Nikhil Garuda

• Nikhil Sharma +

• PaulCMurdoch +

• Philipp Imhof

• Raghav Goel

• Robert West +

• Ryan McCauley +

• Skaft +

• SwiddisZwei +

• e4coder +

• friedkeenan

• malte-v +

• ralphieraccoon

• sparshg

The patches included in this release have been reviewed by the following contributors.

• Aathish Sivasubrahmanian

• Abhijith Muthyala

• Anton Ballmaier

• Aron

• Benjamin Hackl

• Darylgolden

• Devin Neal

• GameDungeon

• Hugues Devimeux

• Iced-Tea3

• Jan-Hendrik Müller

• Jason Villanueva

• Jerónimo Squartini

• KingWampy

• Laith Bahodi

• Mark Miller

• Mohammad Al-Fetyani

• Naveen M K

• Nikhil Garuda

• Oliver

• Philipp Imhof

• Raghav Goel

• Ricky Chon

• Ryan McCauley

• Skaft

• SwiddisZwei

• e4coder

• friedkeenan

• ralphieraccoon

• sparshg

Pull requests merged

A total of 87 pull requests were merged for this release.

Breaking changes

• PR #1521: Improve Animation docs

  • Improve documentation of the Animation class.

  • Unify the signature of get_all_mobjects. Now it always returns a sequence of Mobjects. This breaks using FadeTransform.get_all_mobjects as Group.

• PR #1470: Drop support for Python 3.6

  Manim won’t work on Python 3.6 anymore.

Highlights

• PR #1447: Added PolarPlane for polar coordinates.

• PR #1490: Added Polygram, rework the polygon inheritance tree, and add Star

  • Add Polygram, a generalized Polygon that allows for disconnected sets of edges.

  • Make Polygon inherit from Polygram.

  • Add regular_vertices()

  • Add RegularPolygram.

  • Make RegularPolygon inherit from RegularPolygram.

  • Add Star.

• PR #1462: OpenGL: Added Shader, Mesh, and FullScreenQuad

  Add Shader and Mesh objects

• PR #1418: Added project management commands

  • manim init - quickly sets up default files for a manim project.

  • manim new project - lets the user set project settings. It also creates the project inside a new folder of name <project_name>

  • manim new scene - used to quickly insert new scenes into files. If file name is not provided main.py is used as default.

Deprecated classes and functions

• PR #1598: Update examples to use Axes and deprecate GraphScene

  GraphScene has been deprecated and its functionality has been shifted to Axes. See the updated example gallery for sample usage.

• PR #1454: Fading module enhancements

  Moved functionality of all Fading classes to FadeIn and FadeOut. All other fading classes have been deprecated.

• PR #1375: Deleted the deprecated ShowCreation in favor of Create

New features

• PR #1566: Added the ability to add gridlines to a Rectangle

• PR #1548: Added ArcBrace, a subclass of Brace.

• PR #1559: Update VGroup to support item assignment (#1530)

  Support indexed item-assignment for VGroup

• PR #1518: Allow fading multiple Mobjects in one Animation

• PR #1422: Added override_animation() decorator

• PR #1504: Color module enhancements

  • Replaced BLUE_E with what was previously DARK_BLUE and removed DARK_BLUE

  • Added alias LIGHTER_GRAY for GRAY_A

  • Added PURE_RED, PURE_BLUE and renamed GREEN_SCREEN to PURE_GREEN

  • All gray colors are now also available using British spelling (including GREY_BROWN)

  • Replaced color example in the docs. It can now be used as a quick reference for all color names.

• PR #1272: Implement metaclass approach in geometry module to make mobjects compatible with cairo and opengl rendering

• PR #1404: Added two deprecation decorators

  Added two function decorators deprecated and deprecated_params as a consistent way of deprecating code.

Enhancements

• PR #1572: OpenGL compatibility via metaclass: TracedPath, ParametricFunction, Brace, VGroup

• PR #1472: Porting methods from GraphScene to CoordinateSystem

• PR #1589: OpenGL compatibility via metaclass: ValueTracker

• PR #1564: Add extra notes for TeX compilation errors

  Add hint to use custom TexTemplate on TeX compilation errors

• PR #1584: Added a check for 0 in round_corners()

• PR #1586: Add OpenGLMobject support to all isinstance occurrences

  This PR increases the support for OpenGL in the remaining animation classes and in other places where appropriate.

• PR #1577: Added new metaclass ConvertToOpenGL (replacing MetaVMobject), restore IntelliSense

• PR #1562: Improved VectorField’s Nudge Accuracy Per Step

  Implemented the Runge-Kutta algorithm in VectorField’s nudge function. This increases the accuracy as an object moves along a vector field. This also increases efficiency as the nudge function requires less loops to achieve accuracy than the previous implementation.

• PR #1480: Add logging info to tex errors

• PR #1567: Compatibility Fixes with ManimPango v0.3.0

  • ManimPango v0.3.0+ is required for Manim now.

  • Show errors from Pango when Markup isn’t correct

• PR #1512: OpenGL compatibility via metaclass: graph

• PR #1511: OpenGL compatibility via metaclass: svg_mobject, text_mobject, tex_mobject

• PR #1502: Added center parameter to Sphere and point parameter to Dot3D

• PR #1486: Update of rate_functions

  Changed the picture for the non standard rate functions.

• PR #1495: Ported value_tracker to OpenGL

• PR #1382: Expand documentation, testing, and functionality of ValueTrackers; remove ExponentialValueTracker

  Added more documentation and inline operators to ValueTracker and ComplexValueTracker. Brought coverage for value_tracker.py to 100%. Removed ExponentialValueTracker.

• PR #1475: Add SVG elliptical arc support

Fixed bugs

• PR #1574: Fixed error when processing SVG with omitted elliptical arc command

• PR #1596: Fix indexing for non-whitespace tex arg separator

  Fixes #1568

  Fix issue when setting the arg_separator of a Tex object as a non-whitespace character(s). The method break_up_by_substrings(self) was not accounting for the separator when setting the index.

• PR #1588: Fixed multiple animations being saved in the same file

• PR #1571: Fix tests after introducing parallelization

• PR #1545: Fix outdated parameters for LinearTransformationScene and add an example + typing.

• PR #1513: Fixed rotation of gradients while rotating a VMobject

  • Fixed the direction of gradient which remained the same while rotating VMobjects

  • Added rotate_sheen_direction() method in VMobject

• PR #1570: Output errors to stderr

• PR #1560: Declare *.npz *.wav *.png as binary in .gitattributes

• PR #1211: Refactored scene caching and fixed issue when a different hash was produced when copying a mobject in the scene

  Refactored internal scene-caching mechanism and fixed bug when an inconsistent hash was produced when copying a mobject.

• PR #1527: Improved handling of substring isolation within sqrt, and fixed a bug with transform_mismatch for the matching shape transforms

• PR #1526: Fix fading

• PR #1523: Fix multiple FadeIn / Out only working on VMobjects

Documentation-related changes

• PR #1599: Added example for Annulus

• PR #1415: New example for gallery and some docs refinements

• PR #1509: Copyedited Documentation

  Added a link to Manim Community GitHub page in for_dev.rst. Fixed get_start() and added roll link in building_blocks-rst Added language to code blocks in configuration.rst

• PR #1384: Added typings to space_ops.py

  Added Typehints to most of the functions

• PR #1500: Example for apply_complex_function()

• PR #1551: Fixed the typo for Admonitions

• PR #1550: Restructuring of Contribution Section

• PR #1541: Fixing broken links and other minor doc things

• PR #1516: Update docs to use t_range instead of t_min and t_max in ParametricFunction

• PR #1508: Update troubleshooting docs

• PR #1485: Added Title example for the docs

• PR #1439: Cleaning Sequence typehints

• PR #1440: Added Scoop installation docs (Windows)

• PR #1452: Refine typehints at Angle

• PR #1458: Refine docs of Text ( add disable_ligatures=True for t2c)

• PR #1449: Added PointCloudDot example

• PR #1473: Added easy example for arrange_in_grid()

• PR #1402: Added typestring parser checker

• PR #1451: Reduce complexity of AngleExample

• PR #1441: Add inheritance diagrams to reference page

  Added inheritance diagrams to the reference page as a quick navigation method.

• PR #1457: Fixing broken doc links

• PR #1445: Remove $ from tutorial commands

Changes concerning the testing system

• PR #1556: Try pytest-xdist for parallelization in tests

Changes to our development infrastructure

• PR #1505: Add docs reference to PR template

  Added documentation link to the Pull Request Template.

• PR #1499: Updated Discord links in the docs to point towards a standardized redirect

• PR #1461: Build the docs - Logging

• PR #1481: pyproject.toml: poetry_core -> poetry-core

• PR #1477: Update RDT sphinx package to version 3.5.3

• PR #1460: Create CONTRIBUTING.md

• PR #1453: manim_directive: fix image links in docs - Windows

  Use POSIX path on Windows to link images so documentation can build locally.

Code quality improvements and similar refactors

• PR #1465: Added typings and description to some functions in coordinate_systems.

• PR #1552: Removed unwanted parameters in geometry

  Removed anchors_span_full_range, close_new_points, anchors_span_full_range, preserve_tip_size_when_scaling, mark_paths_closed and close_new_points

• PR #1597: Removed hilite_me and insert_line_numbers_in_html from global name space

• PR #1535: Update dependencies and fix tests

• PR #1544: Adding spell checker as a pre-commit hook

• PR #1542: Swapping a pango markup link in docs

• PR #1531: Don’t use deprecated methods in deprecation.py

• PR #1492: Remove stray print statements introduced in #1404

• PR #1471: Fix Some Warnings from lgtm

Changes that needed to be reverted again

• PR #1606: Bring back DARK_BLUE

New releases

• PR #1601: Preparation for v0.7.0: added changelog and bumped version number