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hello and welcome to the final section

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of pycon

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we'll be beginning with a talk by Sam

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Bishop who

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is going to be telling us a bit about

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blender and 3D art

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they're a professional software

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developer an amateur rocker scientist

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which I'm told is less impressive than

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it sounds

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they love python Jango cats working on

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software and Hardware

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and everything space

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take it away Sam all right

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[Applause]

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okay

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so I'm Sam Bishop I'm a freelance

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software developer and a consultant as

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well I'm also working on space robots at

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Tetra orbital I am here to talk about

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blender and python contact details are

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on the bottom of the slide there so if

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you want to reach out to me you can get

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to me there and we'll start with the

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obvious question what is blender

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for those of you who aren't familiar

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blender is a one of the older open

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source projects initial work started

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with ton Rosenthal in-house engineer at

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Neo Geo which was a Dutch Animation

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studio and this work started in the

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December of 1993 the first working build

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he had that had any kind of feature at

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all was in 94 in 95 they had their first

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useful version of it and the world got

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its first visual look at blender in 1998

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when they released it as shareware for

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the SGI Erics operating system which is

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probably something that some of you have

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never even heard of

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um but after the various Tech bubble

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things happened around the end of the

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year 2000 some bankruptcies happen some

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corporate trading happens and in 2002

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ton is successful in spearheading a

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public campaign to gather funds and open

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source the project by buying out the

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intellectual property and interestingly

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the name blender actually comes from a

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song by Swiss band yellow from their

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album baby which was used by Neo Geo way

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back in the day as part of showreel

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um and since being open sourced blender

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has grown significantly over those 21

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years and it has gained notoriety with

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things like its open movie projects

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which have developed a significant Show

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reel of blender's capability for itself

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and highlighting what can be done with

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open source software and helping push

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forward new releases of blender several

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of these movie projects have involved

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developing brand new features for rent

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and green and other capabilities blender

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did not have at the start of the

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decision to make that movie one of the

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ones that isn't on that slide involves

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doing rotoscoping and real-time visual

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effects overlays

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there are many features that blender has

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pushed forward or significantly improved

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as part of this active use cycle where

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they decide we are doing this and they

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have to make it work the third one in

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the top right there cindel was actually

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sintel sorry it was actually

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a test bed for the Alpha version of

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blender 2.8 and so they were using the

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development preview for the entire

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development of this movie making sure

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that every feature that they added and

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changed in 2.8 was going to be useful

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for real users when they released and

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it's a pretty impressive thing for them

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to have been doing this for 21 years and

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blender has a lot in it and I've only

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got 30 minutes so I'm going to try and

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not leave you feeling like this has

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happened I'm going to try and actually

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leave you feeling like you could pick

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this up and do things because current

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blender has a lot in it I was not

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kidding

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blender has a absolute ludicrous amount

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of tools inside of it it has tools for

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modeling sculpting rigging animation

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visual effects a non-linear video editor

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like Adobe Premiere is actually inside

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of blender it has multiple rendering

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engines it has physics simulations for

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rigid bodies cloths fluids hair and fur

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particles and smoke and in addition to

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capabilities and editing in a 3D World

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so you can actually take your 2D vectors

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and move them around in 3D to do all

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kinds of crazy awesome stuff and you

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rendering there when they did the

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wonderful sort of Van Gogh effect

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and it is just an insanely powerful

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package and it is also insanely flexible

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customizations to the UI and extensions

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to the physics engine where people have

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started pushing it and customizing it

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and scripting it and in that case adding

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new widgets to control it like a gear

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stiff to make that swipe turn into a

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road through a whole dynamic tree of

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nodes they've customized and

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overall it is one of the most powerful

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with you know it is insane and it has a

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python interface which you can see right

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there that is a capability that does not

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come stock he has written his own script

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there and that is actually puppeting

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that model in real time using that Xbox

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360 controller like a virtual Puppeteer

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powered by python and speaking of that

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python let's have a look at what python

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is inside of blender so python in

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blender is actually a full python

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installation just like if you went and

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downloaded python 310 off buyer.org and

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actually had it installed by itself it

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has its own complete python environment

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an interpreter site packages it comes

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bundled with several major python

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numpy and it has a built-in version of

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that and a number of other libraries

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which help it do significant amounts of

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data processing that it needs to do

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thousands of geometry pieces all the

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time when it's doing things for your

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animations or rendering or anything else

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you do with it and it has its own C apis

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which are bundled up into a python

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package that is the blender API which

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they pre-bundle into that python

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environment when they ship you blender

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and so there is a lot going on but at

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the end of the day when you actually try

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to use it as a user there are three ways

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it via scripts or packages or add-ons

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add-ons are basically the blender word

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for a plugin we'll get to some of those

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and do it by hand but it's not too hard

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to use just like any other python

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but let's start with the scripting

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so I've got a really simple script here

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now this script is just going to do us a

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little four by four grid of Cubes it's a

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nice simple demo it just shows two for

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primitive it just Chucks a cube in the

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something like that which is a very

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simple demo it's not visually

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principle you just Chuck it in run it

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and there you go so let's do something

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more complicated let's try and make it

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more visually interesting what we'll do

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nice kind of a mosaic effect we'll take

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grid and we'll grab that script and

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3D package after all let's do something

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corners because it looks a bit better in

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3D to do it this way I switched over to

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middle so rather than having sort of

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awkward edges and Corners sticking out

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the simple script it's just got one more

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running through and how they all as it

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there again very simple script did not

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bit more visually interesting these have

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cubes in the world and it's not the most

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interesting thing to look at so let's

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try and make something more visually

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and modify it again so what we'll do

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this time is we'll skip anything on the

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inside of that Cube because it is a cube

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thwomp sort of looking spiky Cube thing

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which is definitely more visually

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interesting than something that we had

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earlier but again it's just a very small

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modification to a series of iterations

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and it's easy to sort of play around

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with and start getting a feel for how

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you can make more complicated things

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with these scripts I've got a script

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demo at the end that really shows off

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how you can stack these things and

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that's at the end so let's go into the

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add-ons so

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CA is a node-based geometry plugin

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an add-on technically

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um that I wasn't actually able to run on

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Apple silicon so it is a great one I've

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used it before I've had to grab the

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gifts off their GitHub repo show off the

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capabilities

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um it is a useful set of over 250 nodes

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that you can link together and I'll

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explain this nodes and linking stuff in

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another in the next slide next demo bit

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and those allow you to build a series of

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events changed together that take data

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in process that data produce outputs to

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the end of that chain that give you

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various forms of geometry you can see in

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a couple of those gifts if your

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eyesight's good enough that you're

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manipulating these properties and things

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change about the geometry in the world

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because you have direct access to those

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properties just like if you were running

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a script going in and calling the

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function with a different variable

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except those are accessible to you in

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the UI with nice and easy to manipulate

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sliders so showing this off a bit better

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will be sphere shock now spur shock is

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named spiritual because that's Russian

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for grasshopper and it's a plug-in for

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blender which was designed to create a

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similar capability and it is the older

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of these two plugins a similar

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capability to the node-based editing

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feature of rhino which is a CAD software

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package a proprietary one that most

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people haven't used but it is a very

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powerful way of linking everything

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together in this visual processing way

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and

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they just basically copied the name and

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picked a different language so it gives

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us these nodes and you can see them down

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the bottom and what I've done is I've

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started with the simplest one I can

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think of give me a box and then I asked

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it to go and make that box a rendered

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object in the world with a nice little

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pink pink plastic nice and simple uh now

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okay I've just got a box what can I do

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with it

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um let's bevel the edges of my box I've

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grabbed the bevel node I've chucked the

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bevel node into the script chain and

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then set some properties and it's

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beveled my box

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um okay it still looks pretty simple

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I've just rounded the corners off okay

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let's do something more

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a inset Chuck in the inset node and then

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perform an out inset which is a little

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funky until you understand the math

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behind it but

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it pulls these edges out and inserts

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them slightly and it gives us this kind

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of cut crystal looking effect which

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looked a lot nicer when I played around

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with it but it was a bit hard to see on

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the screen when I did it in like a

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translucent Crystal

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so I just stuck with the pink plastic

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but it's a good demonstration of how you

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can chain these things together quite

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simply and play around with them and

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manipulate them until you start to get

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something you like the look of now

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that's just the basics of using these

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kind of node-based tools where these two

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add-ons are interesting is that they

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have the ability to have python plugins

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inside of them so you can write Python

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scripts pull those into these two

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add-ons as nodes and make your own nodes

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with python so in this case here I've

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got a very simple demo I've got a python

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script this spershock attractor here I'm

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going to pass the data from that into a

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pipe and then I'm going to turn that

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pipe into a mesh with some properties

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there I've picked a bronze material just

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for example to keep it different can't

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keep making everything pink so I've got

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that script here and that's what that

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script looks like there's some stuff in

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the doc string at the top that tells

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spur shock what the inputs and outputs

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need to be

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and then there's just the script for the

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rest of the block there now when I load

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that in and I run that chain of nodes in

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searchok what I get is I get a little

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fractal attractor there rendered in

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bronze it's not fancy it's a fairly

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straightforward sort of application I

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just found a function that made some

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points in a line that I liked and

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chucked it in and made some stuff with

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it now

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that's one tiny example but there are

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more because you can build a whole

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library of these you can make a whole

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package of extensions to spurtshock and

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sawka based on this principle you can

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build your own library of functions for

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yourself and import them into blender

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for these plugins to use you can extend

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the plugins and there are existing

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extensions there are people who have

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made libraries already like spiritual

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open 3D and spiritual Beamish that have

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expanded the capability of spershock and

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given it more power than it has out of

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the box and

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that node-based editing can go a long

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way so what about getting some basic

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data in there there's been a couple of

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people this weekend talk about data

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visualization in 3D and various things

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like that so let's have a look at some

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of the data visualization options if you

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have a bunch of data and you think you

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could do something pretty with it in

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blender well there's multiple blad-ons

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and plugins again so here are three

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example ones these seem well supported

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they ran when I checked them blender

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plots blend database and data effects

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but I'll get back to burn to plots at

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the end but I'm going to demo blendfig

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which is yet another one so

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what I've gone is I've just used the

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same lorentz thing again because I had

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it handy and I'm like well yeah I can

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ask for more dots great more dots and

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then I've asked it to do a scatter plot

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so with that scatter plot down there at

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the end it's just going to do the

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rendering of our scatter plot now it

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looks pretty boring right now

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it's not the most interesting thing I

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think it looked better in bronze but it

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is more well defined so okay what can I

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do with that well I'm going to use

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blender's built-in equivalent just for

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chalk and saw car because after the

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success of these plugins the blender

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developers were like you know that's not

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a bad idea maybe we should have a thing

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that does that and so they it built

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their own and now we have three options

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on this table all of which have

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different capabilities and strengths and

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weaknesses there are things that you can

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do in Saw car that are not in blender

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built-in geometry nodes or in Search

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oxnodes and vice versa for all three so

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what I've done here just to show off

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these geometry nodes is I've just taken

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that mesh because what I got from the

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scatter plot was just a straight line of

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dots connected with you know lines

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and I've asked blender to treat it as a

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curve and then I've asked blender to

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take a stop shape from its default

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primitive box and turn that star shape

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into a pipe via extruding a curve with

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the mesh and then I've asked it to cover

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it in a like a blue edge light sort of

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cyberpunk sound texture looks kind of

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kind of when I get that it's kind of

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like a bit of a black hole kind of a

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collision sort of a look which looks a

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bit better when you kind of have less

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clutter around it

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um

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but these are just the tips of the

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iceberg there is so many plugins out

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there thousands on GitHub hundreds of

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thousands of scripts that have been

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written over the years there is an

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absolute mountain of content out there

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for blender

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um

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some of these are more useful to you as

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a beginner trying to get started and

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learn than others which is why these two

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are the first ones so open with IDE is a

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really tiny one script file you can just

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load it like a plugin and then you get a

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button that opens those scripts that I

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was demonstrating earlier in something

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like vs code so you can get intellisense

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autocomplete you can install the blender

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environment and it can actually know

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what those packages contain which makes

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it a lot easier to edit bigger scripts

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like the one at the end and then there's

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a script that you'll easily take care of

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pip installing for you because as I

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mentioned earlier that self-contained

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environment can be a little hard to work

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with sometimes especially if you have

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multiple copies of blender for some

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reason like having multiple long-term

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stable ones because say a plugin might

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not work which can happen in the open

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source world as we all know so

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having an easy way to not muck around

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and reliably go in and make sure that

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that version of blender has that

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particular python Library you want to

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use is a really handy thing to do so

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let's look at a few we can actually use

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again some of these are add-ons and some

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of these are packages that you would

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have to pip install their documentation

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covers that but I just wanted to show

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off a few really useful ones that you

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can play around with without needing to

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know the ins and outs of blender super

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well so there's geometry script which

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can automate creating those geometry

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nodes I showed earlier if you want to

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play around with building a big sequence

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of them you might want to make that

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repeatable so that you don't make a

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mistake when you blow it all the way and

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try and make it again so you can

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automate that Creation with this library

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then if you do play around with it by

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hand and you want to kind of reliably

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reproduce that well there's a library to

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go the other direction there's node to

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python which will take a set of nodes

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and turn them into Python scripts so you

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can play around in either direction and

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still keep these things for working out

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future versions there's things like a

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solar system simulator someone was like

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I can't want to make some stuff orbit

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but I don't really know how to animate

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it for that and I'm like well okay I'll

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do the physics and so they put in a

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kiplarian integrator and did all the

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physics there with some python libraries

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that they install as well and what you

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have is the ability to just Chuck

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objects into a blender environment give

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them the correct parameters and then

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blend it just orbits them for you you

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don't have to do any hard work it's nice

548
00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:13,679
and simple

549
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,480
um

550
00:18:13,679 --> 00:18:17,100
and speaking of complicated things done

551
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,320
simple molecular Dynamics and other

552
00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:21,480
visualization thing so you can load up a

553
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,460
bunch of chemical data on say a smaller

554
00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,799
molecule or a complete protein as is

555
00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:27,720
visualized there in the GIF and it will

556
00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:29,280
do a full demonstration of that

557
00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,600
including using some math behind the

558
00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,860
scenes to work out when things should be

559
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,360
moving around in sort of a random

560
00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:35,580
rounding motion like some of these

561
00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:37,200
things do apparently and that adds some

562
00:18:35,580 --> 00:18:39,960
of its own geometry nodes in there as

563
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,160
well so another powerful plugin to do

564
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,559
this kind of visualization of

565
00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,059
complicated information to a more simple

566
00:18:43,559 --> 00:18:46,860
version of the information there is

567
00:18:45,059 --> 00:18:49,500
things like a music visualization plugin

568
00:18:46,860 --> 00:18:50,640
so you can visualize music into your

569
00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:52,260
environment as either a background

570
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,360
effect or tied into something else

571
00:18:52,260 --> 00:18:56,220
that's just one of their quick demos and

572
00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,480
again there are so many of these out

573
00:18:56,220 --> 00:18:58,919
there that once you start looking you'll

574
00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,660
probably find something that does what

575
00:18:58,919 --> 00:19:03,120
you kind of want or shows how you can

576
00:19:00,660 --> 00:19:04,980
start working it out yourself in

577
00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:07,740
particular there is an absolute plethora

578
00:19:04,980 --> 00:19:10,080
of procedural content generation plugins

579
00:19:07,740 --> 00:19:11,640
and add-ons for blender and not to

580
00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,679
mention how many of the various python

581
00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,299
libraries you could use to sort of

582
00:19:13,679 --> 00:19:17,160
Cobble together your own procedural

583
00:19:15,299 --> 00:19:18,720
generation tools as well this tree

584
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:22,740
generator here I actually cover in more

585
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:24,419
detail in a 2001 sorry 2021 pycon Au

586
00:19:22,740 --> 00:19:26,220
talk about procedural content generation

587
00:19:24,419 --> 00:19:27,900
which mentions a few other blender

588
00:19:26,220 --> 00:19:29,059
add-ons that can do procedural content

589
00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,440
as well

590
00:19:29,059 --> 00:19:32,940
and if you do get really into all of

591
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,500
this and you do actually want to start

592
00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:36,419
showing off to the world how you're

593
00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:39,299
doing this all the time there's actually

594
00:19:36,419 --> 00:19:40,860
a Discord plugin so you can put your

595
00:19:39,299 --> 00:19:43,320
current what am I doing in blender into

596
00:19:40,860 --> 00:19:46,140
a Discord

597
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,340
um and after showing all of those things

598
00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:48,960
I'm going to use a slightly more

599
00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:50,100
visually interesting demo because all

600
00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,840
the demos up to this point have been

601
00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:53,760
pretty simple I mean sure that your

602
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,900
fractal with the blue was nice but I

603
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,179
think we can go a little bit better with

604
00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:59,460
the time we have left so uh one final

605
00:19:57,179 --> 00:20:00,600
demo I'm going to pull in numpy and I'm

606
00:19:59,460 --> 00:20:02,580
going to use that blender plots Library

607
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,320
I pointed out earlier because it does

608
00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:05,700
generate plots slightly differently to

609
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,260
the other libraries which is useful for

610
00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:08,940
what I want to do in a moment and then

611
00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:11,340
I'm going to use the palatable Library

612
00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:13,559
which I've installed via Pi Pi which is

613
00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:14,760
a library full of plot gradients for

614
00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:15,960
when you're generating different plots

615
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,580
and want to color all your data

616
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,140
correctly so I've gone and pulled out

617
00:20:17,580 --> 00:20:20,760
one of their particular color gradients

618
00:20:19,140 --> 00:20:22,440
and I'm giving it a nice name so that I

619
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,760
could play with it later and I'm

620
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,020
chucking in a simple little helper

621
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,760
function I use quite frequently to get

622
00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:28,919
myself pairs from an iterable so if I

623
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,600
have one two three four it'll return a

624
00:20:28,919 --> 00:20:32,520
set of tuples to me so I've got one two

625
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,080
two three three four handy sometimes

626
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,720
when you want to kind of build lists of

627
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,799
things like this so now I'm going to

628
00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,419
give myself another function that's

629
00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:41,700
going to Generate random points between

630
00:20:39,419 --> 00:20:43,080
two spheres so if I've got a big sphere

631
00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:45,419
and then a smaller sphere it'll give me

632
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,520
a random distribution of dots in the

633
00:20:45,419 --> 00:20:49,260
space between them which you'll see what

634
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,000
that's for in a second so it does a

635
00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:53,220
bunch of numpy stuff some trigonometry

636
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,419
and it gives me those random points now

637
00:20:53,220 --> 00:20:55,919
I'm going to have to get some more

638
00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:57,240
information from those points I'm going

639
00:20:55,919 --> 00:20:59,220
to have to work out how to aim them

640
00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,720
somewhere so what I'm going to do is I'm

641
00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:02,760
going to do some more trigonometry with

642
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,460
numpy and I'm going to work out how to

643
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,260
rotate in the world for blender to aim

644
00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:08,640
something from that random Point towards

645
00:21:07,260 --> 00:21:10,559
a direction that I want to point it in

646
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,960
and so we've got that function now added

647
00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:14,460
to the script here and then what we'll

648
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,960
do is we'll tie them together so I'm

649
00:21:14,460 --> 00:21:18,059
going to generate a list of pairs of

650
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,320
adjacent colors and that's just going to

651
00:21:18,059 --> 00:21:21,240
give me a nice little list of tuples

652
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,860
then I'm going to get a list of how many

653
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,640
things I want to put at each step of my

654
00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:25,500
script

655
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,480
that's just a little step sequence of

656
00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,220
powers and then I'm going to get a list

657
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,419
of Upper and Lower bounds for those

658
00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:32,340
spheres so that I get kind of a

659
00:21:30,419 --> 00:21:33,720
progressive stacking effect and then I'm

660
00:21:32,340 --> 00:21:35,340
just going to do a single for Loop here

661
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,799
and I'm going to generate multiple plots

662
00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:39,419
I'm going to generate the points rotate

663
00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:40,799
them so that it knows where to go and

664
00:21:39,419 --> 00:21:42,419
then scatter plot them using that

665
00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:44,220
blender plot library to do the scatter

666
00:21:42,419 --> 00:21:45,780
plot and when I Chuck it all into

667
00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:48,419
blender and just hit the render button

668
00:21:45,780 --> 00:21:50,520
to see it with the preview I get this

669
00:21:48,419 --> 00:21:52,919
and it doesn't look particularly

670
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,000
impressive in black and white but when

671
00:21:52,919 --> 00:21:55,559
you see how it turns out with the

672
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,400
gradient I think it actually looks quite

673
00:21:55,559 --> 00:22:01,020
good uh and that was about two hours it

674
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,400
wasn't particularly hard to work out how

675
00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:04,200
to put this together once I sort of

676
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,240
realized I could do the scatter plot and

677
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,980
muck around with the colors and just

678
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,140
play around with it in the space it it

679
00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:12,419
can be pretty simple to start stacking

680
00:22:10,140 --> 00:22:13,799
the things you know into these kinds of

681
00:22:12,419 --> 00:22:15,140
contexts and coming up with really

682
00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:18,059
interesting things you like the look of

683
00:22:15,140 --> 00:22:20,400
so with all that in mind that's the last

684
00:22:18,059 --> 00:22:21,659
of the demo there and hopefully you

685
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,280
don't feel like you've just watched a

686
00:22:21,659 --> 00:22:25,020
tutorial that skips the middle steps

687
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,820
hopefully you do feel like you can

688
00:22:25,020 --> 00:22:28,799
actually try to you know start doing

689
00:22:26,820 --> 00:22:30,360
some of these things because these are

690
00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:32,640
fairly straightforward starting steps

691
00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:34,880
and there is of course time for

692
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,880
questions

693
00:22:36,390 --> 00:22:45,419
[Applause]

694
00:22:43,620 --> 00:22:47,460
thank you Sam does anyone have a

695
00:22:45,419 --> 00:22:48,659
question oh and I do have it open in

696
00:22:47,460 --> 00:22:50,880
blender if you want to see it and

697
00:22:48,659 --> 00:22:53,059
actually see it fully in blender

698
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,059
foreign

699
00:22:54,260 --> 00:23:00,000
that was great uh is there a limit to

700
00:22:57,299 --> 00:23:01,500
what uh sort of imports you can put in

701
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,299
um is there capability for adding

702
00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:04,860
machine learning rights oh definitely

703
00:23:03,299 --> 00:23:06,360
there are a number of add-ons out there

704
00:23:04,860 --> 00:23:08,100
that do things like machine learning on

705
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,840
data sets and one of the things that

706
00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:11,580
people have started doing is using

707
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,740
machine learning to process the

708
00:23:11,580 --> 00:23:15,179
environment you saw there the what in

709
00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:17,340
that early video that was showing off

710
00:23:15,179 --> 00:23:18,900
the 3.6 release that show reel included

711
00:23:17,340 --> 00:23:21,419
someone who'd used a machine learning

712
00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:23,520
software package to emulate the van

713
00:23:21,419 --> 00:23:25,020
Gogh's style Isle of painting in the

714
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,360
rendering layer so that the environment

715
00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:28,919
was done in regular geometry but when it

716
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:31,260
was rendered out it kind of had that van

717
00:23:28,919 --> 00:23:33,120
Gogh swirly little line effects applied

718
00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:36,720
at the final rendering pass layer

719
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,720
awesome cheers

720
00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:51,780
is it possible to uh from end to end

721
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:54,840
Control Blender from a python script

722
00:23:51,780 --> 00:23:56,520
yes as in without like touching the

723
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,659
interface at all yes just completely

724
00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,480
there's actually a full head loss mode

725
00:23:57,659 --> 00:24:02,159
oh perfect which gets a significant

726
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,900
amount of use so it's it's not like a

727
00:24:02,159 --> 00:24:06,200
niche feature like the Chrome headless

728
00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:08,700
was for a while it it actually gets used

729
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,140
extremely Often by people doing large

730
00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:11,820
renderings if you are doing a batch

731
00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:13,679
rendering for a movie you may be

732
00:24:11,820 --> 00:24:14,640
rendering thousands of frames what

733
00:24:13,679 --> 00:24:16,440
you'll do is you'll set up your

734
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,840
automation pipeline to farm that job out

735
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,640
and you'll use the blender command line

736
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,220
interface to say render this particular

737
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,320
frame from this file and so they do

738
00:24:23,220 --> 00:24:27,620
heavily use it and fully know that it

739
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,620
works

740
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,100
yeah yeah you could pass a script in and

741
00:24:30,059 --> 00:24:33,419
run the script from the outside generate

742
00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:35,220
this and then render it out if you were

743
00:24:33,419 --> 00:24:36,960
to add all the extra camera positioning

744
00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:38,820
information and set everything up

745
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,260
correctly I didn't really want to show

746
00:24:38,820 --> 00:24:40,919
that because that kind of requires a lot

747
00:24:40,260 --> 00:24:42,780
of

748
00:24:40,919 --> 00:24:44,100
understanding of the way the 3D spaces

749
00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:46,380
work with stuff like rendering and

750
00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:47,880
textures and lighting and it's a bit

751
00:24:46,380 --> 00:24:49,740
more than I thought was sort of

752
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,940
appropriate for 30 minute demo when you

753
00:24:49,740 --> 00:24:53,159
know something like this is actually

754
00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:54,960
quite straightforward to show but at the

755
00:24:53,159 --> 00:24:56,520
at the same time positioning a camera

756
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,500
correctly in the world lighting it

757
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,240
correctly and and showing all the detail

758
00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,460
can be you know significantly more

759
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,720
tricky than just having it open and and

760
00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:05,340
being able to just sort of pan it around

761
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,919
so that people can see how it's built up

762
00:25:05,340 --> 00:25:09,240
of the layers because you can see that

763
00:25:07,919 --> 00:25:10,140
the different layers get stacked

764
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,000
together

765
00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:14,100
creating this sort of progressive effect

766
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,900
as it sort of moves out through the

767
00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:17,100
stack

768
00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:18,900
again it was fairly straightforward to

769
00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:21,179
sort of Chuck together once I saw one of

770
00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,840
these libraries do a scatter plot

771
00:25:21,179 --> 00:25:24,320
um

772
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,320
yeah

773
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,980
more questions there's still some time

774
00:25:32,220 --> 00:25:36,260
one I can try and render a proper one

775
00:25:39,299 --> 00:25:42,900
um

776
00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:43,860
is there support for

777
00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:45,960
um

778
00:25:43,860 --> 00:25:47,460
sorry words

779
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,360
hmm

780
00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:50,360
uh

781
00:25:50,940 --> 00:25:56,760
what was I asking it's gone

782
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,039
um having like a time-based animations

783
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,380
oh definitely to have it you know moving

784
00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:02,640
and animating yeah absolutely there was

785
00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:05,820
actually one of the slides had a video

786
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,140
sorry a gif from one of those packages

787
00:26:05,820 --> 00:26:09,179
that has that kind of functionality

788
00:26:07,140 --> 00:26:10,679
built in uh let me just jump back to the

789
00:26:09,179 --> 00:26:12,659
presentation and I might be able to

790
00:26:10,679 --> 00:26:14,360
quickly jump to it without taking too

791
00:26:12,659 --> 00:26:18,299
much of the time that's left

792
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:20,580
we should have further back here

793
00:26:18,299 --> 00:26:22,260
that one there is actually doing a

794
00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:23,820
time-based animation for the music

795
00:26:22,260 --> 00:26:25,740
passed in

796
00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:26,700
um as well as that one's doing it based

797
00:26:25,740 --> 00:26:31,500
on the data from the chemical

798
00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:32,940
information and the add-on here yeah

799
00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,440
there we go so the blender plots Library

800
00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:36,240
does actually have the capability of

801
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,720
doing time-based animations in there as

802
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:42,840
well so that and all the way back at the

803
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,120
very early one on or car that one on the

804
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,679
top right corner actually is doing it

805
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:48,059
with the timeline running down the

806
00:26:46,679 --> 00:26:49,320
bottom so that is actually Computing

807
00:26:48,059 --> 00:26:52,020
some of those properties based on the

808
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,820
current frame of the timeline set up so

809
00:26:52,020 --> 00:26:55,200
it's using that frame to determine some

810
00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:56,760
of the properties that it passes into

811
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,900
the math

812
00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,659
so

813
00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:02,760
no no it really isn't because like I

814
00:27:00,659 --> 00:27:04,799
said blender has so many features inside

815
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,539
of it that you you will routinely forget

816
00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:08,159
that it's got those things like I do

817
00:27:06,539 --> 00:27:10,140
have to keep remembering it has a full

818
00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:12,539
Adobe Premiere style non-linear video

819
00:27:10,140 --> 00:27:14,760
editor inside of it because

820
00:27:12,539 --> 00:27:18,140
why would it need that oh it needs that

821
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,140
to composite a complete movie

822
00:27:23,820 --> 00:27:27,900
I think we've still got about two more

823
00:27:25,140 --> 00:27:30,440
minutes so feel feel free I'm enough for

824
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one more question

825
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do you know some examples of movies made

826
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:38,159
with blender oh yeah yeah it was uh this

827
00:27:35,580 --> 00:27:40,559
slide right here uh they've done the

828
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more than these there's actually several

829
00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:43,500
extra ones

830
00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:45,720
um this was just the nine ones that fit

831
00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:47,480
prettiest when I sort of tried to find a

832
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,320
set that looked nice on screen together

833
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,600
they've done a number of these I think

834
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,640
they're up to about 15 now these are all

835
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:56,760
short movies uh the one in the middle

836
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,380
was hoping to get enough funds raised to

837
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,600
try and make a feature-length movie that

838
00:27:58,380 --> 00:28:03,000
didn't quite pan out but they definitely

839
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,500
did make a absolutely spectacular set of

840
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,760
fur shaders for that cheap

841
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,039
[Music]

842
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,600
really like you look at the difference

843
00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:11,760
in definition between the fur in the

844
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,260
sheep in the center and the fur in the

845
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,700
fuzzy animals in the top frame above it

846
00:28:13,260 --> 00:28:16,500
and and there's a significant

847
00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:18,539
Improvement in terms of being able to

848
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,919
both artistically control the fur as

849
00:28:18,539 --> 00:28:21,960
well as have it be a higher definition

850
00:28:19,919 --> 00:28:24,299
and less shortcuts necessary to render

851
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,980
it but again more rendering power with a

852
00:28:24,299 --> 00:28:27,840
more recent movie too so they kind of

853
00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:29,700
could cheat a little bit but yeah

854
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,260
blender has a lot of these examples out

855
00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:33,000
there I believe it has been used at

856
00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:34,980
least in part in a number of major

857
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,240
movies I don't have those memorized off

858
00:28:34,980 --> 00:28:38,640
the top of my head I just know I came

859
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,679
across them in the list of examples

860
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,299
um I wanted to more focus on ones that I

861
00:28:40,679 --> 00:28:45,299
knew wouldn't accidentally get any video

862
00:28:42,299 --> 00:28:46,919
de-listed from the internet

863
00:28:45,299 --> 00:28:48,480
because these are all Creative Commons

864
00:28:46,919 --> 00:28:50,400
licensed

865
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:54,720
thank you Sam for this wonderful

866
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,840
combination of programming and art

867
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,840
um

868
00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:04,580
thank you here is your customary mug and

869
00:29:01,980 --> 00:29:04,580
thank you card