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Disney Offers Ptex on New Open-Source Site
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| âPtex from Disney Animation is one of those
| premiere technologies that can only reach its
| full potential by releasing it as open
| source,â said Andy Hendrickson, chief
| technology officer. âIt is a revolutionary
| idea, and though some would characterize it
| as a Disney competitive advantage, it has
| more value to the corporation as an industry
| standard in solving the time-consuming
| computer graphics problem of assigning
| textures to geometry. Setting a new standard
| is best accomplished by giving technology
| away for free.â
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http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/11233
Get started with Blender
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| You canât learn Blender overnight,
| unfortunately, even if you only need to use a
| sub-set of its tools, such as producing
| static 3-D images. But thatâs because, for
| most people, thinking in three dimensions is
| hard, and drawing in three dimensions (on a
| two-dimensional screen) is even harder. All
| of the techniques Blender offers to build 3-D
| models â meshes, skins, NURBs, extrusion â
| are just shortcuts to help you get from the
| design you can picture in your head to a
| concrete, well-defined model inside the
| computer. They take some getting used to, and
| more than that, they take practice. But
| thereâs no reason to feel intimidated by
| them.
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http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/get-started-with-blender.html
Recent:
Blender 3D Incredible Machines
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| The introduction in the book states that the
| reader requires no previous experience of
| Blender to make use of the book. However
| further on in the book it is said that the
| book is not a beginners book and that many
| things will not be described in detail as the
| reader is expected to know the basics of how
| to use Blender in terms of its interface and
| various buttons and keypresses. After having
| read the entire book I would say that a
| beginning Blender user would be able to
| understand most of the book as most of the
| time things such as key presses and the basics
| of how to use Blender are explained in a way a
| new user to Blender would be able to follow.
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http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/02/17/1414239/Blender-3D-Incredible-Machines
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