FOSSdome – FOSSdome

This week I followed a rabbit hole that led me to rediscover some projects I’d previously not liked, but now they have the potential to be what I need.

Links from the episode:

unfa channel https://www.youtube.com/user/unfa00

TechHut channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TechHutus

TechHut top 10 Linux apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVJydgFKWo

Vokoscreen https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG

KdenLive https://kdenlive.org/en/

KDE https://kde.org/

OpenShot Video Editor https://www.openshot.org/

ShotCut https://www.shotcut.org/

Blender https://www.blender.org/

Natron https://natrongithub.github.io/

Episode 10: Some Ups and Downs of FOSS for Digital Media

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Episode 10: Some Ups and Downs of FOSS for Digital Media

00:00 / 24:52

And that episode title sounds better than the one I used in the recording. In any case, this week is ~~some rambling from me in which I complain about stuff and complain about complaining about stuff~~ some insightful thoughts on some of the ups and downs of using FOSS.

Links to software projects mentioned:

POV-ray https://www.povray.org/

Blender https://www.blender.org/

Gimp https://www.gimp.org/

Krita https://krita.org/

Inkscape https://inkscape.org/

Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/

Olive https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

Natron https://natrongithub.github.io/

Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

QGIS https://www.qgis.org/

OpenSpace https://www.openspaceproject.com

WWT https://worldwidetelescope.org/home/

Episode 9: Resources for Astronomy Art with Blender

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Episode 9: Resources for Astronomy Art with Blender

00:00 / 21:32

This week I chat about some interesting tools and tutorials for using Blender for non-visualization Astronomy stuff.

Links for this week:

Cycles X https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/

Fulldome Production With Blender https://github.com/waystar/2019-Blender-Workshop-Materials

How to make planets in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6224Wisxwxc

Darkfall Shader Library intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbj20u53uW8

The Shader Library https://darkfallblender.blogspot.com/p/the-shader-library.html

Mark Kingsnorth original nebula tutorial (files no longer available, but still good to read) http://www.markkingsnorth.com/2017/01/31/blender-nebula-group-node-tutorial-download/

Mark Kingsnorth Nebula Generator on BlenderMarket https://blendermarket.com/products/nebula-generator

3D Star Map (link to demo version and store in description) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRshK5qhJDA

Black Hole art from Void_SW on BlenderNation https://www.blendernation.com/2021/05/04/hand-picked-blender-art-4/

Create a Black Hole in Blender – Iridesium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naMFeWTBeY

Procedural Galaxies in Blender 2.91! -CBaileyFilm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQXI5KownU

Procedural Solar Flare Shader Blender Tutorial! – CBaileyFilm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9anTO45bCM

Mustafar Procedural Lava Planet Shader – CBaileyFilm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCztNvPGq1w

Episode 8: Some Resources for Astronomy Visualization with Blender

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Episode 8: Some Resources for Astronomy Visualization with Blender

00:00 / 17:01

Another update and a look at some interesting resources for learning to take astronomy data into Blender for visualization. It’s how the magic gets made!

AstroBlend https://www.astroblend.com/

AstroBlend https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUcA4vXe2IPdnCjBslj6XQ

AstroBlend at 2015 Blender Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vY-sl1oXME

Dr. Jill Naiman https://www.astronaiman.com/

Dr. Brian Kent https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/blender/

Matías Gárate’s Blender & Astronomy Tutorial. Using Voxel Data for 3D visualization https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjFmkbKBKd0WuhhbR2MGPXZyWW7TPcNSw