Python engineering animations: Bring math & data to life

About Course

How would you like to have an idea for a scientific animation and be able to actually create it and show it to other people? How would you like being able to code a program that gives you that technical animation? How would you like to present technical data as a movie? In order to achieve that, it is important to know a programming language that can create technical animations and it is essential to know certain Mathematical concepts for that.

Python has a great library called Matplotlib and it gives us an amazing opportunity to create scientific animations easily and in a very neat way. If you know how to use it and you know some math, then you have the ability to create very impressive animations and visualize data in a very creative way. Imagine how great it would be to present your scientific data to your coworkers or partners in the form of a movie. They say, that a picture is worth 1000 words. Well, perhaps an animation is worth 1000 pictures. I guess that is why videos are the primary tool to convince people of something.

In this course you will not only learn how to use the infrastructure of Python animations in Matplotlib, you will also master the mathematics that you need for creating technical animations. We will animate airplanes, 3 joint robots, water tanks, autonomous vehicles, trains on rails, a UAV drone, free falling objects on different planets, etc. While doing that, we will learn Mathematical concepts such as Functions, Derivatives, Vectors, Physics for free falling objects, Trigonometry, Time delays, Circular motion in 2 and 3D dimensions and even a short Intro to a fascinating field of Control Systems.

If you want to learn all these interesting and exciting concepts and know how to apply them to create impressive technical animations, then ENROLL in this course and let’s get started. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

Best Regards,

Mark Misin

Course Content

intro to course structure & python environment installation

Welcome

01:07
Course-structure

04:41
Intro-to-Linux-macOS-Terminal-Windows-Command-Prompt

12:50
Intro-to-Python-environment-installation

01:30
Python-installation-Ubuntu

06:01
Python-installation-Windows-10

06:01
Python-installation-macOS

08:01
Course Material Download Link

00:00

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Airplane forward motion

Basic-mathematics-for-the-animations-1

06:01
Basic-mathematics-for-the-animations-2

13:09
Intro-to-Matplotlib-functions-pyplot-gridspec-animation

13:29
Creating-arrays-for-time-X-Y-dimension

11:34
Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-1

07:50
Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-2

06:06
Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-3

11:10
Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-4

13:10
Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-1

09:18
Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-2

09:47
Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-3

08:22
Making-a-line-go-faster

11:48
Index-Error

04:46
Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-1

10:43
Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-2

07:01
Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-3

07:52
Building-skyscrapers-building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-1

10:00
Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-2

04:43
Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-3

05:41
Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-4

04:22
xticks-yticks-functions

14:38
Labels-titles-and-grids

02:32
Adding-changing-text-to-Python-animations

14:46
Modifying-moving-lines-and-avoiding-pitfalls-in-the-animation

17:21
Making-the-airplane-faster-exercise

00:25
Making-the-airplane-faster-solution

05:49
Creating-subplot-properties-for-the-2nd-subplot

06:50
Some-more-pitfalls

09:17
Animating-the-function-line-in-the-2nd-subplot

13:34
Adding-a-vertical-moving-line-in-the-1st-subplot

06:56
Creating-a-3rd-subplot

10:27
Creating-moving-lines-in-the-3rd-subplot-resolution-change-warning

07:15
Creating-changing-text-objects-in-the-3rd-subplot

14:29
Quadratic-and-cubic-motion-of-the-airplane

08:05
Quick-intro-to-derivatives

13:11
Applying-derivatives-to-the-speed-function

09:50
Visualizing-speed-on-the-X-Y-plane

07:15
Animating-3-airplanes-simultaneously-1

10:53
Animating-3-airplanes-simultaneously-2

11:00
Adding-a-square-root-function

07:21

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Free fall motion

Follow-up

00:37
Intro-to-Physics-of-a-free-fall-1

08:57
Intro-to-Physics-of-a-free-fall-2

12:25
Creating-a-circle-in-Python-animations-1

10:30
Creating-a-circle-in-Python-animations-2

09:01
Creating-a-function-for-a-circle

08:09
Defining-initial-variables-for-the-animation

04:09
Make-the-circle-fall

17:35
Make-the-circle-stop-on-the-ground

05:31
Creating-position-function-animation

06:32
Creating-velocity-function-animation

06:27
Creating-acceleration-function-animation

05:46
Adding-Mars-and-the-Moon-animations-to-all-the-subplots

13:24
Experimenting-with-conditional-statements-in-the-update-plot-function

02:19
Create-different-radii-to-different-circles

05:59

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Delay & oscillation – Cars

Intro-to-the-car-train-animation

02:54
Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-1-Math

03:55
Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-2-Math

12:16
Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-3-Math

05:23
Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Math

10:03
Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Amplitudes-Math

06:02
Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-frequencies-Math

08:14
Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Amplitudes-frequencies-Math

09:23
Building-the-animation-code-1

04:23
Building-the-animation-code-2

12:07
Building-the-animation-code-3

08:00
Building-the-animation-code-4

09:13
Building-the-animation-code-5

06:43
Building-the-animation-code-6

04:05
Building-the-animation-code-7

12:56
Building-the-animation-code-8

05:06
Building-the-animation-code-9

03:02
Building-the-animation-code-10

02:27

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Delay & oscillation – Water tank

Water-tank-animation-Math

06:13
Building-water-tank-animation-code-1

09:07
Building-water-tank-animation-code-2

11:45
Building-water-tank-animation-code-3

07:06
Building-water-tank-animation-code-4

04:40
Building-water-tank-animation-code-5

04:57
Building-water-tank-animation-code-6

01:53
Building-water-tank-animation-code-7

11:01
Building-water-tank-animation-code-8

07:56

Animation controlling 2 dimensions – straight & circular motion

2D-animations-Intro

04:30
Vectors-Math

15:00
Creating-a-2D-animation-code-1

06:18
Creating-a-2D-animation-code-2

06:35
Creating-a-2D-animation-code-3

05:23
Creating-moving-vector-arrows-in-Python-1

11:47
Creating-moving-vector-arrows-in-Python-2

07:56
Creating-moving-vector-arrows-in-Python-3

09:53
Creating-a-sinusoidal-forward-motion-1

03:39
Creating-a-sinusoidal-forward-motion-2

09:25
Creating-rotational-motion-in-Python-1

08:04
Creating-rotational-motion-in-Python-2

10:58
Creating-rotational-motion-in-Python-3

14:12
Creating-rotational-motion-in-Python-4

08:46
Creating-rotational-motion-in-Python-5

19:09

Animation controlling 3 dimensions

Multi-joint robot animation

Equations-for-a-2-joint-robot-Math-1

14:34
Equations-for-a-2-joint-robot-Math-2

07:56
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-1

03:58
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-2

06:18
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-3

05:22
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-4

08:05
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-5

15:13
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-2-joint-robot-6

08:46
Equations-for-a-3-joint-robot-Math

09:09
Building-the-animation-code-for-a-3-joint-robot

08:04
Creating-an-animation-for-the-moving-orbit

10:11

Experimentation assignments

Extra material 1 – Intro to control systems

Intro-to-Control-Systems-1

02:26
Intro-to-Control-Systems-2

14:16
Intro-to-Control-Systems-3

06:51
Intro-to-Control-Systems-4

15:59
Intro-to-Control-Systems-5

15:31
Code-explanation-1

17:56
Code-explanation-2

11:15
Code-explanation-3

11:18
Code-explanation-4

13:26
Code-explanation-5

11:58
Code-explanation-6

13:47

Extra material 2 – Autonomous vehicle animation

Autonomous-vehicle-Math-1

05:15
Autonomous-vehicle-Math-2

10:40
Autonomous-vehicle-Math-3

08:45
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-1

08:59
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-2

09:55
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-3

06:54
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-4

10:25
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-5

03:17
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-6

06:55
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-7

05:01
Autonomous-vehicle-animation-code-explanation-8

06:25

Extra material 3 – UAV drone animation

Extra material 4 – Writing python animations as mp4 files + moving arrows in 3D

Last words

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Student Ratings & Reviews

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Ahmad Mushtaq

8 months ago

I completed his 3 courses on Control Systems and looking at how good of a teacher he is, i enrolled in this course just to see what else he has to offer. And turns out that it is actually really beneficial in engineering to know how to animate the simulation/hardware outputs. Really is a fun thing to learn and implement. Would recommend this to all engineers.

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

intro to course structure & python environment installation

Welcome

Course-structure

Intro-to-Linux-macOS-Terminal-Windows-Command-Prompt

Intro-to-Python-environment-installation

Python-installation-Ubuntu

Python-installation-Windows-10

Python-installation-macOS

Course Material Download Link

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Airplane forward motion

Basic-mathematics-for-the-animations-1

Basic-mathematics-for-the-animations-2

Intro-to-Matplotlib-functions-pyplot-gridspec-animation

Creating-arrays-for-time-X-Y-dimension

Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-1

Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-2

Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-3

Create-the-1st-animation-moving-line-4

Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-1

Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-2

Explaining-animations-in-terms-of-objects-3

Making-a-line-go-faster

Index-Error

Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-1

Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-2

Moving-a-line-with-a-fixed-length-3

Building-skyscrapers-building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-1

Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-2

Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-3

Building-a-flying-airplane-from-lines-4

xticks-yticks-functions

Labels-titles-and-grids

Adding-changing-text-to-Python-animations

Modifying-moving-lines-and-avoiding-pitfalls-in-the-animation

Making-the-airplane-faster-exercise

Making-the-airplane-faster-solution

Creating-subplot-properties-for-the-2nd-subplot

Some-more-pitfalls

Animating-the-function-line-in-the-2nd-subplot

Adding-a-vertical-moving-line-in-the-1st-subplot

Creating-a-3rd-subplot

Creating-moving-lines-in-the-3rd-subplot-resolution-change-warning

Creating-changing-text-objects-in-the-3rd-subplot

Quadratic-and-cubic-motion-of-the-airplane

Quick-intro-to-derivatives

Applying-derivatives-to-the-speed-function

Visualizing-speed-on-the-X-Y-plane

Animating-3-airplanes-simultaneously-1

Animating-3-airplanes-simultaneously-2

Adding-a-square-root-function

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Free fall motion

Follow-up

Intro-to-Physics-of-a-free-fall-1

Intro-to-Physics-of-a-free-fall-2

Creating-a-circle-in-Python-animations-1

Creating-a-circle-in-Python-animations-2

Creating-a-function-for-a-circle

Defining-initial-variables-for-the-animation

Make-the-circle-fall

Make-the-circle-stop-on-the-ground

Creating-position-function-animation

Creating-velocity-function-animation

Creating-acceleration-function-animation

Adding-Mars-and-the-Moon-animations-to-all-the-subplots

Experimenting-with-conditional-statements-in-the-update-plot-function

Create-different-radii-to-different-circles

Animation controlling 1 dimension – Delay & oscillation – Cars

Intro-to-the-car-train-animation

Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-1-Math

Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-2-Math

Introducing-delays-in-the-animation-3-Math

Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Math

Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Amplitudes-Math

Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-frequencies-Math

Using-trigonometric-functions-in-the-animation-Amplitudes-frequencies-Math

Building-the-animation-code-1

Building-the-animation-code-2