Another day, another new feature drops in Blender 2.91, this time in the form of a power-up for Blender’s search functionality, which now has fuzzy matching!
SLOPPY TYPERS UNITE! ? Don't remember how to spell Subsurface Scattering? Simply type "sss"! This new search in Blender will change your life. https://t.co/EvnYCPLz9r #b3d #devfund
— Blender.Today ? (@BlenderToday) September 10, 2020
Available in the latest Blender 2.91 experimental builds, this patch replaces the old exact search with fuzzy search based on the Damerau–Levenshtein distance.
In practice, this means the user can input a search term with one or more letters wrong and still get a match, such as inputting “grese pencil” to get grease pencil, greatly increasing the accessibility of the search function. This search even allows for the input of initials such as GP or SSS for Grease Pencil and Sub-Surface Scattering!
Pablo Vasquez demonstrates the power of this new search, implemented by the wunderkind Jacques Lucke, in the video below:
3 Comments
Brilliant. I'm always amazed how Google understands my apallign tpying... now Blender does too!
ha ha ha
you need that in the comment box ;)
Google use deep neural networks. powerful than fuzzy logic.