Tag: Blender 2.7x

Episode 8: Some Resources for Astronomy Visualization with Blender

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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

Blender workshop at the 2017 Pleiades Conference

This was another great memory.

I had lots of wonderful help running the workshop, and I was very proud of the result. The materials include several examples of methods for creating fulldome content with Blender 2.79.


The materials are currently on my GitHub account – click “Clone or Download” to download the whole thing as a zip file.

2017 Blender Workshop Materials

I hope to remake the materials with Blender 2.80. Mostly the same, but the interface and shortcuts have changed. The new features are still evolving and could merit a new chapter.

I’m keeping the Blender 2.79 materials around, though. Folks with older computers might not be able to run Blender 2.80.