The TMiP Animation Generation Collaboration is a community project to create and publish 'process' videos of mathematical animations using a range of different techniques and processes. Each month we'll release a prompt for an animated mathematical concept, and participants will have approximately one month to produce a process video of themselves making an animation for that prompt. The videos we receive will be added to a playlist, and we'll release a compilation video of some of our favourites for each prompt.
March 2025: Circle and Sine curve
Create an animation that shows the link between a sine curve and a unit circle (i.e. that the y-coordinate of a point on the circle is the sine of the angle to the x-axis at that point).
Deadline for submissions: 31st March 2025
Your video should show how you created the animation - but other than that it's up to you! It can be any length, and give as much detail as you feel happy with. It could be anything from a screen capture of you creating the animation with a simple voiceover to a fully-comprehensive tutorial, or anything in between.
Again, it's up to you! There are many ways to create mathematical animations, including but not limited to:
We're keen to showcase as many different methods as possible, so if you use something that's not on this list we'd love to see it!
For these videos, the audience will be mainly other maths communicators who are interested in creating maths animations and would like to find out how to do so. But keep in mind that the audience for the finished animations could be anyone that a maths communicator might present an animation to - students, YouTube viewers, nerdy adults, etc. If you're creating an animation with a particular audience in mind, you could mention that in your video.
This is absolutely fine! If you think it works, we want to see it. Many people are put off creating maths animations because they think they have to do it 'properly'. We want to showcase ways to create animations relatively quickly and easily, even if it feels messy or involves workarounds. An animation that's been created with a slightly dodgy method but shows the concept well is much better than an animation that doesn't get created at all for fear of not being perfect.
Not a problem! Even using the same software, different people will create things in different ways. We want to see as many as possible.
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They will also be published on the TMiP social media channels, and circulated within the network.
Upload it to YouTube (either public or unlisted) and send a link via this form. You can use the hashtag #MathsAnimationTMiP on your video title and social media posts to help people find it.
No! There's no commitment - you're free to take part in as many or as few as you like.
Email your idea to animation@talkingmathsinpublic.uk.