The International competition "MathLapse Festival" (ic16.imaginary.org/mathlapse), organized by Imaginary (a project of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach), held in Berlin (last 22 of July), selected the best 5 MathLapses* from the 47 submitted videos.

One of the 5 prizes was awarded to Atractor (www.atractor.pt), a Portuguese scientific project devoted to the popularization of mathematics, for the movie "Constructions by pin-and-string - conics" (imaginary.org/film/mathlapse-constructions-by-pin-and-string-conics). This MathLapse illustrates a process for drawing the three conics (ellipse, parabola and hyperbola) by pin-and-string constructions. The University of Coimbra (through FCTUC, the Faculty of Science and Technology, and its Maths Department) is a partner of Atractor.

In the Atractor YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/channel/UCymZYeiV6b-86ZpDM3_HspQ) you may see other MathLapses produced by Atractor.

*MathLapse is a short movie that illustrates some mathematical idea.