academa-labs / manimgx

Blazingly fast 3D animation engine for agents, compatible with Manim CE's API . 
 Powered by Rust and wgpu. Install with a prompt or pip. Run in the browser.
 Documentation ·
 Quickstart ·
 Examples ·
 API Reference 
**36.2 seconds of video, rendered in 3.08 seconds.** Across five scenes at 1080p60 on an Apple M4 Pro, ManimGX is **90.6× faster than ManimCE**, **11.5× faster than ManimGL**, and **18.7× faster than Blender Workbench**, from launch to finished MP4. How it was measured: the scenes, the settings and every run.
 All engines use the fastest encoding preset available. Lower is better. 
**Compare the same scene.** Linked rings at 2.5 seconds, rendered by each engine.
| ManimGX | ManimCE | ManimGL | Blender Workbench | Blender EEVEE |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| | | | | |
## Get started
**With a prompt.** Paste into Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. Your agent handles setup:
 [code] 
**With pip.** Install on macOS, Linux or Windows with Python 3.13+:
 [code] 
Fonts, typesetting and video encoding are included.
For editor setup and a guided first animation, follow the
Quickstart.
## From Python to MP4
Save this as `scene.py`:
 [code] 
Render it:
 [code] 
You get `Hello3D.mp4`, a 1080p60 video:
## Why ManimGX?
**An API for 3D video in the age of agents.** Your agent writes Python using
Manim CE's API.
ManimGX's Rust + wgpu engine renders the MP4, blazingly fast.
- **Fully statically typed.** Keyword arguments and `.animate` chains included.
- **2D and 3D together.** Surfaces, meshes and moving cameras alongside text, equations
 and plots.
- **Runs in the browser.** `npm install manimgx`. Pyodide runs
 Python in a Web Worker; WebGPU renders the scene.
 Embed a scene with no render server.
- **Agent feedback.** `manimgx inspect`: storyboards and 2D layout checks, at play endings or times you choose.
- **Text and math.** Write LaTeX or Typst. No LaTeX installation needed.
- **Speech in sync.** Match animations to spoken words
 with `self.say()`.
## Documentation
**manimgx.academa.ai** has the guides, rendered examples
with source code, and API reference:
- Quickstart: install, set up your
 editor, and render your first scene.
- User Guide: learn scenes,
 animations, 3D, text and sound, one idea at a time.
- Examples: watch complete films and read the
 Python that makes them.
- API Reference: look up classes, methods
 and their typed parameters.
- Coming from Manim CE:
 adapt existing scenes and check where behavior differs.
For agents, llms.txt provides setup instructions
and links to the documentation as Markdown.
## On the shoulders of giants
Grant Sanderson created
Manim. ManimGX targets the API of
Manim Community Edition, the widely used
community-maintained fork.
The Rust renderer uses wgpu for native GPU rendering and WebGPU in
the browser. Its 3D lighting is adapted from Google's
Filament: physically based materials,
image-based lighting, ambient occlusion, bloom and AgX tone mapping.
Typst typesets text and math, with
mitex