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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!

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

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).
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!

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.