blender – OnlyOnesAndZeros

Visualizing Videos as 3D Objects with Blender

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 by Alex

A while ago, I saw this note I wrote to myself of a future project to work on: a 3D visualization of a video. I had been thinking about how videos are basically sequences of 2-dimensional images, comprised of millions of pixels arranged into different x and y positions, and any video can therefore be … Read moreVisualizing Videos as 3D Objects with Blender

Blender – Tree Render With Sapling Add-on

January 16, 2017 by Alex

A while ago, I made a tree in Blender with the help of the sapling add-on (it’s built into Blender, but you have to enable it it the user preferences). The add-on basically lets you create custom tree meshes using dozens upon dozens of different settings, and it also includes several helpful presets. The leaves and branches/trunk are separated, so I assigned separate materials to each of them, then rendered and added a slight vignette in paint.net.

Blender – Dice

January 16, 2017 by Alex

This is a die (dice can also be used as a plural, apparently) I created in Blender with a rounded cube and materials assigned to specific vertices (to make the dots).

Blender – Star Swirls

January 15, 2017 by Alex

Bright swirling stars on a black background

Another image of stars, made in Blender with a turbulence simulation.

Blender – Another Explosion Test (Now With Fire)

January 13, 2017January 12, 2017 by Alex

Fireballs billowing smoke falling from the sky

Another explosion in Blender, polished with paint.net. A sphere is broken into particles, which are used as the smoke flow object, and create the fireballs. The base resolution is 30 and high resolution is set to 3. This time the particles emit smoke and fire instead of just smoke. The scene is lit with a sun lamp.

Blender – Explosion Test

January 11, 2017 by Alex

An explosion on a gray background, created with Blender

An explosion test I made in Blender, retouched in paint.net (added background, edited shape). The domain had a base resolution of 50 divisions, and high resolution with 2 divisions. The smoke flow object was particle-based, with 250 particles.

Colored Volumetric Smoke in Blender

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 by Alex

This is some more smoke I made in Blender with a physics simulation and a volumetric shader, this time colored blue:

Volumetric Smoke in Blender

January 8, 2017 by Alex

This is an image of some smoke I made in Blender with the built-in smoke simulator and a simple volumetric shader.

More Stars in Blender

January 8, 2017January 5, 2017 by Alex

This is a picture of some more stars I made in Blender using a particle system and location-based shaders:

Rainbow Smoke in Blender

January 3, 2017January 2, 2017 by Alex

This is some rainbow smoke I made in Blender using the built-in smoke simulator. I have six different meshes emitting different colors of smoke in the same domain.