{"id":600,"date":"2005-06-14T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/14\/blender-open-source-3d-rendering-software\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:01:13","slug":"blender-open-source-3d-rendering-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/14\/blender-open-source-3d-rendering-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender &#8211; Open Source 3d Rendering Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender3d.com\/cms\/Home.2.0.html\">http:\/\/www.blender3d.com\/cms\/Home.2.0.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a number of folks picking up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\">Inkspace<\/a>, a new open source SVG editor, and rightly so &#8211; the development of open source apps that are not infrastructural or aimed back at the development community itself is exciting and growing at an incredibly rapid pace. But frankly I was still blown away to come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender, an open source 3-D rendering program<\/a>, as I hadn&#8217;t expected to find this level of sophistication in this type of application available as open source quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>A quick read of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender3d.com\/cms\/History.53.0.html\">software&#8217;s history<\/a> offers an explanation and is a fascinating case study &#8211; the software has been around for some time, and the rights and code were bought by a group of ex-employees and enthusiasts after a public fund-raising campaign explicitly so it could be released as open source. And their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender3d.org\/e-shop\/\">e-shop<\/a> offers another vision of how, given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscommerce.com\/\">low overheads now to create online stores<\/a> and create products on demand, open source projects can create small revenue streams to fund at very least expenses like website hosting and bandwidth costs. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.blender3d.com\/cms\/Home.2.0.html I&#8217;ve noticed a number of folks picking up on Inkspace, a new open source SVG editor, and rightly so &#8211; the development of open source apps that are not infrastructural or aimed back at the development community itself is exciting and growing at an incredibly rapid pace. But frankly I was still blown away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/14\/blender-open-source-3d-rendering-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blender &#8211; Open Source 3d Rendering Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,436],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-authoring","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}