Not completely off topic, since there will be Pd+Blender talk:
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From: Nick Porcaro nick@porcaro.org Date: September 2, 2009 2:31:00 AM EDT To: Nick Porcaro nick@porcaro.org Subject: RSVP? NYC Blender Users's meeting: Sat. Sept 12, 2009 2pm, NYU Polytechnic University, Rogers Hall X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936)
Hey Folks,
Polytechnic wants me to give security a rough head count, please RSVP by Friday afternoon if you plan on being there Sat Sept 12th.
Thanks,
- Nick
The New York City Blender User's Group http://www.blendernyc.org is holding a meeting at NYU Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 2 pm in Roger's Hall. (Just go there and look for the signs for which room)
Directions: http://www.poly.edu/directions
The format of the meeting will be 1 hour of short presentations for anyone who is interested in speaking, followed by an informal "hack meeting".
I plan to give a short update on the work I've been doing on the Blender Game Engine and Pure Data http://www.puredata.org in support of free improv art/ music. See http://www.porcaro.org/blendnik.html for more information.
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!
- Nick Porcaro
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