Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU
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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) created Manim, the Python library he uses to make the math animations in his videos.
We reimplemented Manim with the same Python API, but the implementation underneath is Rust, connected to Python through PyO3. The Rust code uses wgpu, so rendering happens on the GPU.
To run it in the browser, we compiled the Rust parts to WebAssembly so the PyO3 extension loads in Pyodide. In the browser, wgpu targets the WebGPU API, so animations render in real time on your