Blender and Physical Processing Chips (PPUs)

Bullet In Blender.jpgWith recent news of Physical Processing Chips (PPUs), or physics cards, like Aegia’s PhysX I began to wonder if the eventual outcome of it’s usage might its adoption into Blender as an alternative to Bullet (the dynamics engine), fluids, particles, and cloth. I asked a few of these aspects developers if they see PPUs being utilized in the future.

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Elephants Dream License Explained

Creative Commons LogoElephants Dream is the first Open Source movie. This doesn’t just mean that Open Source software was used to produce it, but that all the production files will be Open Source as well! So, if you don’t like one scene or you want to change it you can fire up Blender, load the files and go ahead. The files will be published under a Creative Commons license.

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