From 3Blue1Brown.
Winners and honorable mentions for the SoME2 contest
Playlist of all entries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTZXPiD8ciEARRylD9brJXU
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Post with links to all entries:
https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some2
**Winners**
Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory
https://explanaria.github.io/crystalgroups/
The Lore of Calculus
https://youtu.be/5M2RWtD4EzI
How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZiJeaMO48
Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition
https://youtu.be/a-767WnbaCQ
The Coolest Hat Puzzle
https://youtu.be/6hVPNONm7xw
**Honorable mentions**
How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HeaeUUOnc
How are memories stored in neural networks?
https://youtu.be/piF6D6CQxUw
The shapes of waves of ships and ducks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3CjBZLHXs
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
https://thenumb.at/Autodiff/
Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms — Introduction to Groups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufsL2VgELo
Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication
http://xperimex.com/blog/panorama-homography/
A Tale of Tangent Spheres
https://youtu.be/zR_hpai3XkY
Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeBP3MG-WHg
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?
https://youtu.be/2dwQUUDt5Is
1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers
https://youtu.be/3gyHKCDq1YA
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2jYk37Rlg
A Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us
https://youtu.be/l7bYY2U5ld8
An Inverse Turing Test
https://calmcode.io/blog/inverse-turing-test.html
What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
https://youtu.be/dwNxVpbEVcc
Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing
https://youtu.be/CFBa2ezTQJQ
The Amazing Math behind Colors!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUYoQ1pwes
An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves
https://www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-curve-guide/
Does Every Game Have a Winner
https://almostsurelymath.blog/2022/07/28/does-every-game-have-a-winner/
A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds
https://youtu.be/LUCvSsx6-EU
Numberphile’s Square-Sum Problem was solved!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxW42R47bc
Timestamps:
0:00 – The rising tide
2:08 – Choosing winners
2:54 – Motivation (macro)
8:09 – Motivation (micro)
10:55 – Clarity
12:57 – Novelty
14:26 – Memorability
15:07 – Winners
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These animations are largely made using a custom python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here:
https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq#manim
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
You can find code for specific videos and projects here:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos/
Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/
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