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Re: Blender Lab

#11

Post by badosu »

sim04ful wrote: post #10
Joeboy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the page is currently loading very quickly and is very easy to read due to an issue with Cloudflare. Edit: If I'm honest, I find this specific css fairly innocuous. I have a more general grudge that raw HTML is easy, free and accessible but we collectively insisted that it's not OK to use it.

It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

Funny if not tragic. I was impressed at how good the styling of the page was until I realized the css did not load.

Re: Blender Lab

#12

Post by yuters »

sim04ful wrote: post #10
Joeboy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the page is currently loading very quickly and is very easy to read due to an issue with Cloudflare. Edit: If I'm honest, I find this specific css fairly innocuous. I have a more general grudge that raw HTML is easy, free and accessible but we collectively insisted that it's not OK to use it.

It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

It is way more readable with CSS, I don't know what you're all on about.

The font is bigger, the lines are shorter, the navigation doesn't take half the page. The only thing worse would be the contrast but it's not that bad.

Re: Blender Lab

#13

Post by a2128 »

yuters wrote: post #12
sim04ful wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

It is way more readable with CSS, I don't know what you're all on about. The font is bigger, the lines are shorter, the navigation doesn't take half the page. The only thing worse would be the contrast but it's not that bad.

On mobile it's actually super readable and lines are a perfect length, and having to scroll past the top navigation doesn't affect readability much

Re: Blender Lab

#14

Post by simgt »

If there are contributors to Blender from the industry, who are they? It's easy to understand how big tech can be contributing to Linux, data processing pipelines, web frameworks, compilers etc. but it's harder to see who has both the skills and incentives for design tools. Maybe some game studios have the necessary slack?

Re: Blender Lab

#15

Post by hbosch »

sim04ful wrote: post #10
Joeboy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the page is currently loading very quickly and is very easy to read due to an issue with Cloudflare. Edit: If I'm honest, I find this specific css fairly innocuous. I have a more general grudge that raw HTML is easy, free and accessible but we collectively insisted that it's not OK to use it.

It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

The page is objectively and substantially better in every aspect of legibility with CSS loaded.

Re: Blender Lab

#16

Post by Uehreka »

simgt wrote: post #14

If there are contributors to Blender from the industry, who are they? It's easy to understand how big tech can be contributing to Linux, data processing pipelines, web frameworks, compilers etc. but it's harder to see who has both the skills and incentives for design tools. Maybe some game studios have the necessary slack?

I recall Apple contributing a Metal backend for Cycles back when the M1 Pro/Max came out. That was a big deal, made it actually possible to do renders on a Mac in non-insane amounts of time.

Re: Blender Lab

#17

Post by catapart »

hbosch wrote: post #15
sim04ful wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

The page is objectively and substantially better in every aspect of legibility with CSS loaded.

Hey, take it easy! It's not nice to pick on those poor developers who can only read text that has been piped into their preferred TUI.

Re: Blender Lab

#18

Post by matthewaveryusa »

frustracean wrote: post #3

If anyone else is having trouble loading the CSS for the page, go to https://www.blender.org/wp-content/themes/bthree/style.css?x... to be Captcha'd by Cloudflare - it should load fine after that.

So what's the issue here (I know what the issue is in terms of the subresource not loading, a bit like an oauth redirect not executing properly if a user needs to log back in.)

Is it because of a misconfiguration on blender's end that should allow css to passthrough without verification, the query param messing a cloudflare passthrough default, or something else?

Re: Blender Lab

#19

Post by lfaw »

I'm quite interested in the academic research aspect, especially since our computational geometry group uses or plans on using Blender. However, I'm unclear about the details of this announcement. Is it related to funding opportunities or suggesting experimental features?

Re: Blender Lab

#20

Post by DonHopkins »

This Blender Lab page "Beyond Mouse and Keyboard" page mentions the "wheel menu":

https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/

Here's an wonderful Blender extension, the Sculpt Wheel, that has concentric rings, and is deeply customizable (this video was posted 15 hours ago so it's fresh and current):

Blender 4.5 Sculpt Wheel - Glyph+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhO-aU512NE&t=1s

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