Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is second video in a series inspried by the Talking Maths in Public group, I am trying my hand at showing how I create animations using 3blue1brown's (Grant Sanderson's) Python library ManimGL. The Talking Maths in Public Group encouraged creators to share how they would animate polyhedral nets folding up to create the corresponding polyhedron. In this video, I code in real time while talking about my thought process to create the animation at the end. I was able to do both the tetrahedron and cube in real time, and I also have animations for two different dodecahedral nets (with a link to the code below).

Let me know if you would like to see more "how-to-animate" math videos in the future.

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If you are interested in Talking Maths in Public, check out their website:

talkingmathsinpublic.uk/animation

If you want to see the final code that I wrote in this video, check out this link:

github.com/Tom-Edgar/MVPS/blob/main/TMiPFoldingPolyhedra.py

Thank you for watching!

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The dramatic music at the end is :

Epic Cinematic Saga Trailer | MYTHS by Alex-Productions | youtube.com/channel/UCx0_M61F81Nfb-BRXE-SeVA
Music promoted by free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

To learn more about animating with manim, check out:
https://manim.community