The Linux User Group in Dakar, Senegal, is hosting a 3-day parallel session to the Blender Conference from October 28-30.
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The full schedule for the Blender Conference 2011 is now online – as it’s still a draft version there are still some holes in it, but I’m sure they’ll be filled up quickly. Which presentation are you looking forward to the most?
View Conference 2011 is taking place in Turin, Italy from the 25th to the 28th of October, and TOP-IX (Torino Piemonte Internet Exchange) are organising a series of workshops on creating digital media, several of which will feature blender.
Registration for the Blendiberia 2011 event in Madrid is now open.
A free Blender seminar in Monterrey, Mexico.
Meshflow, a system for interactively viewing how artists construct meshes in 3D applications, was presented in a paper at this years SIGGRAPH conference. The researchers used Blender to capture the modelling process for several kinds of complex models, and then used the meshflow system to cluster the modelling operations into expandable chunks, allowing the viewer to replay the modelling process at an overview level, or to dive in deeper to see each operation in the process, all whist being able to view the model from any angle.
From the paper’s abstract:
The construction of polygonal meshes remains a complex task in Computer Graphics, taking tens of thousands of individual operations over several hours of modeling time. The complexity of modeling in terms of number of operations and time makes it difficult for artists to understand all details of how meshes are constructed. We present MeshFlow, an interactive system for visualizing mesh construction sequences.
MeshFlow: Interactive Visualization of Mesh Construction Sequences
Russian Blender users are having a free online Blender seminar tomorrow. Please let us know how it was!
Animation shorts can be submitted for the Conference Festival now, in Categories “Best Short”, “Best Design” and “Best Animation”.
Quick reminder: if you intend to give a presentation at the Blender Conference 2011, hurry up! The deadline is August 30.
Julius Tuomisto has been helping at the Blender booth at Siggraph this year, and has written a write-up of his time there demoing blender, and seeing the sights at the conference. Read his report.
