Section#

Qualified name: manim.scene.section.Section

class Section(type, video, name, skip_animations)[source]#

Bases: object

A Scene can be segmented into multiple Sections. Refer to the documentation for more info. It consists of multiple animations.

Parameters

type (str) –
video (str | None) –
name (str) –
skip_animations (bool) –

type#: Can be used by a third party applications to classify different types of sections.

video#: Path to video file with animations belonging to section relative to sections directory. If None, then the section will not be saved.

name#: Human readable, non-unique name for this section.

skip_animations#: Skip rendering the animations in this section when True.

partial_movie_files#: Animations belonging to this section.

See also

DefaultSectionType, CairoRenderer.update_skipping_status(), OpenGLRenderer.update_skipping_status()

Methods

`get_clean_partial_movie_files`	Return all partial movie files that are not `None`.
`get_dict`	Get dictionary representation with metadata of output video.
`is_empty`	Check whether this section is empty.

get_clean_partial_movie_files()[source]#

Return all partial movie files that are not None.

Return type: list[str]

get_dict(sections_dir)[source]#

Get dictionary representation with metadata of output video.

The output from this function is used from every section to build the sections index file. The output video must have been created in the sections_dir before executing this method. This is the main part of the Segmented Video API.

Parameters: sections_dir (Path) –
Return type: dict[str, Any]

is_empty()[source]#

Check whether this section is empty.

Note that animations represented by None are also counted.

Return type: bool