Until recently the Blender art gallery has not been updated. So, I decided to do a bit of investigating, and find out what is going on with the minor update.
Blender Art Gallery
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
SIGGRAPH 2008 Shapeways interview
Shapeways is an online 3D printing company, you may have read about Bart’s past involvement with them. In this interview, they show off some of the objects that were made by contestants using Blender and their 3D printer for their SIGGRAPH contest. I also managed to get Sacha to pose with his “Man in Man” statue which I think you’ll enjoy.
Blender 2.47 released
Blender 2.47 was released today! Continuing Blender 2.4x series, Blender 2.47 is a bugfix release to stabilize the “Bunny Release”, serious effort has been put in tracking bugs and fixing them.Check out the release log and download the new version here.
Cute paper art made with Blender
The Mexican city of Guadalajara is being invaded by a small army of funny looking TENTAhooDs. Sightings are posted on a weblog, and if you manage to find one it’s yours!
Apricot, Blender, Beer & Thai Food
Last night I went to Amsterdam and met Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation / Blender Institute and Pablo Vazquez of the Apricot/Yo Frankie! project, Carsten Wartmann of BlenderBuch fame (and an old NaN colleague), and Frank van Beek, who is one of the founders of NeoGeo and an old NaN colleague. I still have a headache!
Beware: this movie is 26 minutes long :)
Realistic Smoke Coming to Blender?
Nils Thürey, who brought fluid simulation to Blender, has done it again! He’s co-author of a paper titled ‘Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation’, an algorithm which creates stunning smoke effects. Even though the algorithm is not implemented in Blender yet, the code is already available. Check out their site for some stunning videos!
Got a Question for the Apricot Team?
I’ll be visiting the Blender Institute later today and I hope I’ll have a chance to talk to some of the people in the Apricot team. As they’re in the last days of the project I’m sure they’ll be busy enough, but I might just be able to squeeze a few minutes of attention out of them. What are your burning questions for them?
Update: thanks for all your input! I’ll try to get the video up later today.
SIGGRAPH 2008 Emerging Technology
One of this years Emerging Technology on display at SIGGRAPH, is a user interface that expands on the mouse and tablet concept. With this technology, there are different types controls that you use to manipulate the various objects on your screen. These control objects are sensed by the “tablet”, they are neither electronic or wired to the tablet. I’m not quite sure how this will fit into the pipeline, but I was fascinated by the technology.
Blender Featured in Amazon’s 3d Animation Boutique
Amazon.com has published a ‘Boutique’ on 3D animation books featuring five prominent authors. One of them is none other than our own Tony Mullen!
Blender Workshop in Vancouver, BC, August 24
The University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre is hosting a free, full-day Blender workshop on Sunday, the 24th of August in Vancouver, BC. The workshop will be lead by Mike Pan and Dalai Felinto, both of whom are working with the Fisheries Centre on the underwater visualization. (We reported earlier on their Fish Population Data Visualisation project with the Blender game engine).
