Free and open source software for the planetarium dome and other immersive environments.
Blender Conference 2026 (YouTube Playlist)
I haven’t watched all of the videos from BCON26 yet, but I’ve been mightily impressed so far.
Two (2) excellent talks on fulldome planetarium productions, talks on using Blender for science applications, unusual spaces, real time assets, 2D/3D combinations and so much more. Coding and node-ing and guided tours under the hood.
Don’t be surprised to see me reference some of the talks individually in the weeks and months to come.
Your favorite Open Source Sorcerers are at it again!
We take a dive into the birthday cake model I worked on for use in the planetarium, and we get to explore Ron’s delightfully clever way of using shader nodes to display a fading orbital trail.
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The birthday cake was shown in the previous post along with a link to the blend file.
The file Birthday_Cake.blend can be downloaded from
https://github.com/waystar/Featured-Blend-Files
I’ll post a followup linking to a peek at how I made parts of it in the current episode of The Ron and Way Show.