Manim Sequence Diagrams

Installation

Following manim's guide on how to install plugins on this guide, but TL;DR is:

run

pip install manim-sequence-diagram
manim cfg write

this will generate a manim.cfg file somewhere, you'll need to add to it this package

[CLI]
enable_wireframe = False
dry_run = False
tex_template =
plugins = manim_sequence_diagram

You'll know if you have it working if you run

manim plugins -l

and it shows something like

Manim Community v0.16.0.post0

Plugins:
  manim_sequence_diagram

Generate Examples

manim -pql docs/examples.py ClientRaceDatabaseNetwork

Although one day, we'd like to support proper sequence diagram syntax, for now, it's all in python.

Here's a quick example of how it works

from manim import *
from manim_sequence_diagram import *

class ClientRaceDatabaseNetwork(MovingCameraScene):
    def construct(self):
        actor_client = SeqActor(name="client")
        actor_delivery = SeqActor(name="delivery")
        actor_server = SeqActor(name="server")
        actor_db = SeqActor(name="database")
        for anime in SeqAction.introduce_actors(actor_client, actor_server, actor_delivery, actor_db):
            self.play(anime)

        # Move the camera yourself!
        self.play(self.camera.frame.animate.move_to(DOWN * 3))

        for anime in SeqAction.subject_gives_gift_to_target(
            subject=actor_client,
            gift=SeqObject(name="async getData"),
            target=actor_delivery
        ):
            self.play(anime)