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Blender is such an incredible piece of software. It’s a great example to show people what open source can be. I have a company where I design custom jewelry wi
by doctoboggan 5y ago
Blender is such an incredible piece of software. It’s a great example to show people what open source can be.
I have a company where I design custom jewelry with my customers fingerprints (https://lulimjewelry.com https://lulimjewelry.com) and I use blender on the backend to automate it.
NYTimes maintains a blender docker container and I run it on google cloud run to take displacement maps and use them to “engrave” my jewelry and output an STL file. The displacement maps are generated client side using fabric.js
It’s awesome that blender can be run headless in a docker container. I’ve also been looking forward to these new blender apps. It seems like you can specify a paired down interface for blender so you could have it purpose built for a single task.
- hnaccount141 5y ago> NYTimes maintains a blender docker container Interesting, anybody know what NYTimes uses it for? Can't find much information about it.
- dagmx 5y agoThe New York times does various 3D graphics for some of their pieces, and has some very cool use of three.js etc.. They have an R&D page that goes into some of their 3D endeavours too https://rd.nytimes.com/projects/reconstructing-journalistic-scenes-in-3d https://rd.nytimes.com/projects/reconstructing-journalistic-...
- hnaccount141 5y agoWow, had no idea they had an R&D page. There's some pretty cool stuff in there, thanks!