Comments on: Blender 2.0 Guide on Google Books

By: Laughing Cheese

Laughing Cheese — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:11:22 +0000

EDIT: Nevermind, found them both! Sweet!!

By: Laughing Cheese

Laughing Cheese — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:04:15 +0000

Sweet!

But is it the whole book?

Seems to me it's old enough that it could be put under a GPL for books type thing…I know some Apress books like that.

A little off topic, but I thought you could download the Blender 2.3 guide as a PDF? What happened to that? I can't find it anymore?

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:40:58 +0000

>The yellow highlighting is probably because they remembered the search query ‘blender 2.0 guide’.

But I find that pretty cool if the image is a bitmap.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:30:12 +0000

Hmyeah, I thought I saw more pages yesterday. Yesterday I also noticed that the publisher in the lower right corner (who is supposed to have given permission for this to be published) seems to be alternating between 'Thomson Course Technology' and another name which I can't reproduce now anymore..

The yellow highlighting is probably because they remembered the search query 'blender 2.0 guide'.

Oh well, I enjoyed seeing (at least parts of) the guide there :)

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:10:12 +0000

haha "Some pages are omitted" showing 20+ pages from the 240 page book and google claims not to "color" information.

Smart software coloring the blender name yellow on scanned pages… what is up with that?

But, I admit, nice to see my name frozen in history. Then again so is Sven Wouter. What did he do again? :(

By: nik

nik — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:51:09 +0000

Okay - so this is factually wrong. I only counted about 30 pages on that preview - and that is certainly not the MAJORITY of the book as the article says.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:01:28 +0000

@Goofster: nothing, just some nostalgia :)

By: Goofster

Goofster — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:54:00 +0000

I'm guessing they used blender only for compositing on that cover :)
Nice for historic reasons, but other than that, what's the use of having
this online?

By: Idenheart

Idenheart — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:59:26 +0000

WOW!!! Blender did that cover! Could that version even output stuf like that!

check out the cover, if that really is blender made it should go in the gallery.

On a further note does anyone really have news of the new guide, I want to buy that thing so freaken bad!

By: harkyman

harkyman — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:16:31 +0000

I have the 2.0 guide on the shelf beside the 2.3, and I'm not selling it for nuthin'!