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Re: Blender Lab

#21

Post by Duanemclemore »

lfaw wrote: post #19

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?

Can I ask what group you're with? I'm an architecture professor who implements (and teaches undergrads to implement) geometry with computational tool and I'm always trying to keep tabs on who's out there doing interesting work.

Re: Blender Lab

#22

Post by dagmx »

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?

Apple, AMD , Intel, NVIDIA, ILM are companies who have contributed or continue to contribute to Blender development.

Re: Blender Lab

#23

Post by saretup »

a2128 wrote: post #13
yuters wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The top navigation definitely put me off, I immediately came back without even scrolling down.

Re: Blender Lab

#24

Post by reactordev »

Duanemclemore wrote: post #21
lfaw wrote: post #19

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?

Can I ask what group you're with? I'm an architecture professor who implements (and teaches undergrads to implement) geometry with computational tool and I'm always trying to keep tabs on who's out there doing interesting work.

Man, to just be a fly on the wall. This is all so interesting to me. I hope these lab projects are open. I’d love to learn more about implementing computational geometry for architecture but lack the ability.

Re: Blender Lab

#25

Post by jsheard »

dagmx wrote: post #22
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?

Apple, AMD , Intel, NVIDIA, ILM are companies who have contributed or continue to contribute to Blender development.

What did ILM work on? I'm looking but I can't find anything regarding them even using Blender at any point, nevermind contributing back to it.

Blender has seen more success than most open source art tools but it still seems to be relegated to individuals and small studios, while the ILMs of the world continue to be neck deep in commercial or bespoke tooling.

Re: Blender Lab

#26

Post by Scaevolus »

matthewaveryusa wrote: post #18
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?

They might be allowing global public caching of their /news/ blog posts (because WordPress is slow?), but not of the static /wp-content/ directory.

Re: Blender Lab

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Post by lastdong »

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.

Fixed it for me, much better than having the top navigation element unstyled as a list. In any case, the CSS is pretty much innocuous, feels almost like reader mode (which is my go to). Thanks!

Re: Blender Lab

#29

Post by NewsaHackO »

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.

Yea, "Minimalism is better!" is like a reflex for some people

Re: Blender Lab

#30

Post by Kye »

It sounds like they're doing their own version of the experimental build thing that's long been popular in the Blender community. That's a good thing.
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