Mscene¶

A Python library for creating science animations with Manim in Google Colab.

Manim is an animation engine designed to program precise animations for science videos. Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service that requires no setup and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs.

GitHub

Docs

Scenes

Clips

Plugins

Docs

Scenes

Clips

Plugins

Quickstart¶

Manim in Colab¶

Create a new Colab notebook at colab.new and run the cells below.

%pip install -q mscene
import mscene
%mscene -h

Install Manim

%mscene -l manim

Import Manim

from mscene.manim import *

Example Scene

Manim Gallery

%%manim -qm ExampleScene
class ExampleScene(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        banner = ManimBanner()
        self.play(banner.create())
        self.play(banner.expand())
        self.wait(1.5)

Mscene Plugins¶

Plugins extend Manim with additional features.

Mscene Plugins

%mscene plugins
from mscene.plugins import *

%%manim -qm FractalScene
class FractalScene(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        ks = KochSnowflake(level=2)
        self.add(ks)
        self.play(ks.animate.next_level())
        self.wait(1.5)
        self.play(ks.animate.prev_level())
        self.wait(1.5)