Blender 2.8 - Hackdot

Re:Blender 2.8 by amelius on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:55PM (#18753263)

I never used Blender, but I always thought that its interface was the "vi" of 3d design tools: not easy to learn yet very powerful. But perhaps I was wrong about that.

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Re:Blender 2.8 by dvtrn on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:17PM (#18753389)

IMO that description is absolutely perfect, and that's not a knock on blender, if anything I think that's probably a superlative of the application.

When blender was in it's earliest forms, I was into 3D modeling as a hobby (a tv show called Eye Drops had me hooked) and recall quite well people who used blender and used it well being looked up with awe as if they were Moses coming down from the mountain, lol.

I stuck around with it long enough and now I make fun little gifs https://66.media.tumblr.com/6257d4052e4212e770fd5eb819c7688c...

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Re:Blender 2.8 by dmix on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:27PM (#18753458)

> and recall quite well people who used blender and used it well being looked up with awe as if they were Moses coming down from the mountain, lol.

It is a very powerful tool to be able to create anything you can imagine, visually with 3d. Especially back in the day it seemed like magic. And those 3d tools have quite a steep learning curve so it wasn't for nothing.

Software is our modern day alchemy. You can conjure up anything you imagine with it. It should be revered!

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Re:Blender 2.8 by dvtrn on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:34PM (#18753510)

Software is our modern day alchemy.

Are you my systems design instructor? My systems design instructor said the exact same thing in college

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Re:Blender 2.8 by dmix on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:04PM (#18755835)

Nope I thought myself. It's more persuasive revelation when you discovered the power of it by yourself than having someone teach it to you. I remember the moment it all started "clicking" and you feel like any software problem is now within your reach (which I give a ton of credit to SICP for teaching me the power of abstraction).

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Re:Blender 2.8 by dvtrn on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @12:33PM (#18758212)

Very true. The "aha!" moment is quite the powerful motivator, had one at work last week on a project that I was stuck on and it resulted in me staying after work for 2 extra hours once I figured out what everything was doing (inherited some very old code to troubleshoot).

Happy holidays, friend!

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Re:Blender 2.8 by hutzlibu on Monday December 24, 2018 @02:05PM (#18753686)

> Software is our modern day alchemy.

I rather think it is software combined with material science ... and 3D printer etc.

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