{"id":128,"date":"2008-03-19T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/03\/19\/is-it-live-or-blender\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:43:51","slug":"is-it-live-or-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/03\/19\/is-it-live-or-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Live or Blender?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Foote has been playing with Blender<\/a> and made this…<\/p>\n

He writes: I had a few minutes to play with Solidworks, which is pretty awesome, from my experience with the first tutorial.<\/p>\n

\"render.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I took the opportunity to export the shell model into VRML, which can be read by Blender. Blender is an open-source 3d modeling\/rendering program, which is free and pretty powerful, and runs on all OSs. Get it here: http:\/\/www.blender.org\/ (The learning curve is pretty gnarly, so I can’t recommend it totally without reservation.)<\/p>\n

Blender lets you add light sources and render things (which may be possible in SW but I don’t think so). So I did a little experiment with internal lights (attached jpg). It’s wrong in several ways (no internal chassis) but it’s enough to get the idea. I may try some different light positions if I get some time (ha ha).<\/p>\n

I will check all this into SVN so others can play. You can do animations and move things around if you know what you are doing. Look in the media\/blender subdir
\n-J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Foote has been playing with Blender and made this… He writes: I had a few minutes to play with Solidworks, which is pretty awesome, from my experience with the first tutorial. I took the opportunity to export the shell model into VRML, which can be read by Blender. Blender is an open-source 3d modeling\/rendering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2007\/06\/08\/orb-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":128,"position":0},"title":"Orb updates","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From Mike: Just a brief note to let you all know that Lisa, Steve Monahan, and I finished welding the aluminum orb last night and brought it to the Box Shop for testing. There, Erik, Lee, Jon and I got it running and put it through it's paces. I'm pleased\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Progress"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":179,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/08\/15\/orbs-following-a-path\/","url_meta":{"origin":128,"position":1},"title":"Orbs Following a Path","date":"August 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From Mike Prados tonight, Niladri and I started the dispatcher program, detached the ethernet cable, and removed our stuff to a respectable distance from orb 1 on the soccer field.\u00c2\u00a0 It then spent a minute figuring out the initial bias on its sensors, and started rolling.\u00c2\u00a0 It turned left and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Progress"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/overhead-298x350.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":211,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2009\/04\/30\/event-swarm\/","url_meta":{"origin":128,"position":2},"title":"Event SWARM","date":"April 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been lax about posting to the SWARM blog... SWARM gets out way more than you know! Last week the orbs were found dancing and flirting with the laptops at the\u00c2\u00a0Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu Linux Release party!\u00c2\u00a0(Each orb runs ARM embedded Debian, pretty nerdy, huh?) This Thursday 4-30-09 a cadre of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Progress"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":253,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2010\/11\/06\/multispecies-salon-3-swarm-in-new-orleans-november-13-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":128,"position":3},"title":"Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM in New Orleans November 13-23","date":"November 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"CONTACT: Dr. Eben Kirksey, 831.600.5937, ekirksey@gc.cuny.edu Myrtle Von Damitz lll, 504.908.4741, myrtlered@gmail.com http:\/\/www.wix.com\/multispecies\/multispecies October 25, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM Exhibitions to Open in New Orleans November 13, 2010 Art exhibitions centered on the relationship between humans and other creatures, The Multispecies Salon 3: Swarm, will open\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fun"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/swarm-orbs-picture-49-350x233.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5dyZ-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}