Manim – Mathematical Animation Framework

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What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Fix ImageMobject 3D rotation/flipping and remove resampling algorithms lanczos (antialias), box and hamming by @chopan050 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4266
• Fix YELLOW_C and add PURE_CYAN, PURE_MAGENTA and PURE_YELLOW by @chopan050 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4562

Highlights 🌟

• Rewrite MathTex to make it more robust regarding splitting by @henrikmidtiby in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4515
• Add new Animation Builder Mobject.always by @JasonGrace2282 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4594

New Features ✨

• Add a seed config option + --seed CLI option for reproducible randomness in rendered scenes by @arnaud-ma in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4532

Enhancements 🚀

• Enable strict=True for zip() where safe by @Oll-iver in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4547

Bug Fixes 🐛

• using color instead of fill_color with MathTeX for node labels by @Schefflera-Arboricola in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4501
• fix: infinite recursion caused by accessing color of a highlighted Ta… by @BHearron in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4435
• Prevent potential UnboundLocalError in PolarPlane by @RinZ27 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4557
• Fixed division by 0 in "turn_animation_into_updater" by @SoldierSacha in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4567
• Fix TOCTOU Race Conditions when creating directories by @SoldierSacha in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4587
• Resolve more race conditions potentially happening during directory creation by @SoldierSacha in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4589
• Fix c2p/coords_to_point with single flat list or 1D array input by @danielalanbates in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4596

Documentation 📚

• Enable rendered documentation of RandomColorGenerator by @arnaud-ma in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4533
• Remove pin to Python 3.13 in installation docs by @chopan050 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4534
• Fix broken aquabeam OpenGL link using Wayback Machine by @behackl in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4545
• Add type annotations and docstrings in opengl_renderer.py by @arnaud-ma in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4537
• docs: improve TransformFromCopy docstring by @GoThrones in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4597

Infrastructure & Build 🔨

• Install missing dependencies in release pipeline by @behackl in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4531

Code Quality & Refactoring 🧹

• Rework and consolidate release changelog script, add previously skipped changelog entries by @behackl in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4568
• Remove future.annotations from required imports by @JasonGrace2282 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4571
• Cleaned up mypy.ini by @henrikmidtiby in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4584
• Add py.typed to declare manim as having type hints by @Timmmm in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4553
• Fix assertion in ImageMobjectFromCamera.interpolate_color() by @chopan050 in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4593
• Reduce dependency on scipy - replace scipy.special.comb with math.comb by @fmuenkel in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4598

Type Hints 📝

• Add type annotations to rotation.py by @fmuenkel in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4535
• Add type annotations to opengl_compatibility.py by @fmuenkel in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4585
• Add type annotations to image_mobject.py by @henrikmidtiby in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4458
• Add type annotations to opengl_image_mobject.py by @fmuenkel in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4536
• Add type annotations to point_cloud_mobject.py by @fmuenkel in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4586

New Contributors

• @arnaud-ma made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4533
• @Schefflera-Arboricola made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4501
• @BHearron made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4435
• @RinZ27 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4557
• @SoldierSacha made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4567
• @Oll-iver made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4547
• @GoThrones made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4597
• @danielalanbates made their first contribution in https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/pull/4596

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/compare/v0.19.2...v0.20.0