Since he's showing Blender+ Pd, I thought I forward it here:

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From: Nick Porcaro nick@porcaro.org Date: February 21, 2009 7:55:49 PM EST To: Nick Porcaro nick@porcaro.org Subject: NYC Blender Users's meeting: Sat. Mar. 7th 2pm, Polytechnic University, Rogers Hall room 474 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1)

The New York City Blender User's Group http://www.blendernyc.org is holding a meeting at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, in Rogers Hall room 474 at 2 pm. Saturday March 7th at 2 pm

Directions: http://www.poly.edu/directions

We have the space for 5 hours.

I plan to make a presentation on the work I've been doing with the Blender Game Engine and Pure Data http://www.puredata.org in support of free improv art/ music, and Daniel Houghton will be discussing his short film called Pitch: http://download.blender.org/demo/movies/bc08/Best_short_film/Daniel-Houghton...

This gathering is for anyone interested in connecting or reconnecting to the Blender community in New York City. We encourage presentations of recent work, future projects, and ideas for collaboration. However, if you would like to attend simply to listen, please do.

Blender http://www.blender.org is a free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. It compares well to software like Maya or 3D Studio Max.

If you want to see what Blender is capable of, see:

Elephant's Dream: http://www.elephantsdream.org Big Buck Bunny: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org and Yo Frankie!: http://www.yofrankie.org

These projects were all supported by the Blender Foundation, and you can download all the .blend files for these projects at the sites shown above. Yo Frankie! is particularly interesting in that it represents lots of recent improvements to the Blender Game Engine, enabling more advanced real time support.

Hope to see you there!

Please RSVP, as Polytechnic has asked me for a head count.

• Nick Porcaro

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