Computer animation and robotics have most of their mathematical foundations in common. So, Blender is a natural (but still undiscovered and imperfect) GUI candidate for robot simulation and programming. The robotics research community lacks an advanced graphical tool such as Blender, but, on the other hand, it has more advanced and efficient algorithms than Blender for the physically realistic ...

This paper shortly describes Blender 3D modification and its use for the design of mechanical parts. The 3D modification of the Blender modeling system and experiments made brought interesting results especially from the human-computer interaction field. The modification relies on the stereoscopy based devices which are currently available at the market. However, the stereoscopy has some drawba...

Apart from improving your renderer you will also have to model a scene of your own, which demonstrates the implemented algorithms. For this part you can use the freely available modeling package blender (www.blender.org). On our course web site you can find some information about using blender as well as a Python script, which can be executed within blender to export your scene as an NFF format...

A descriptive approach for automatic generation of visual blends is presented. The implemented system, the Blender, is composed of two components: the Mapper and the Visual Blender. The approach uses structured visual representations along with sets of visual relations which describe how the elements – in which the visual representation can be decomposed – relate among each other. Our system is...

The Street Performer Protocol, first introduced by Kelsey & Schneier, describes a method for the private funding of public information goods. A campaign by the Blender Foundation, using this method to collect donations for releasing the Blender 3D software as Open Source, has been very successful. This demonstrates that the Street Performer is not just an interesting theoretic construct, but ca...

Granular mixing is a vital operation in food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Although the tumbling blender is by far the most common device used to mix grains, surprisingly little is known about mixing or segregation in these devices. In this paper, we report the first fully three-dimensional particle dynamics simulations of granular dynamics in two standard industrial tumbling blende...

We present Aeolus Blender (Blender in the following), a software product for the automatic deployment and configuration of complex service-based, distributed software systems in the “cloud”. By relying on a configuration optimiser and a deployment planner, Blender fully automates the deployment of real-life applications on OpenStack cloud deployments, by exploiting a knowledge base of software ...

A melt flow indexer (MFI) was used to investigate high-temperature transitions in melts of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The MFI data were obtained in the range 190–230°C. These transitions were found in the MFI at about 210 and 225°C and reproduced in a Haake melt blender. Polystyrene was used in the blender experiment to demonstrate typical amorphous behavior. For HDPE melts, the MFI–temp...