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comes PING of MuyLinux . Sometimes you do better, others worse, but always with the best intentions. Are we successful with the selection today? We all say after reading the following …

PING # 32: openSUSE, Gluster, Debian, Blender, Chakra, Firefox OS ...

    • openSUSE Edu Li-fe 12.3-1 . Now available the first version of which would become the equivalent of Edubuntu, but based on openSUSE 12.3. Have all the information in openSUSE news (certainly that and could you change the name).
    • Bodega, the KDE web applications . This very buggy but KDE also prepares its own “store” apliciaciones, called Bodega. You can check it out at KDEBlog.
    • An eye to the Open Source community Gluster . Our fellow MuyComputerPRO published an article a few days ago about this community special sponsored by Red Hat that is innovating so important when it comes to storage solutions are concerned. One of many examples that things are not black and white. Recommended
    • Debian 8.0 “Jessie” starts rolling . This software is a non-stop and for Debian is no exception. More information on Phoronix.
    • OpenNebula 4.0 . We go to The H Open now to collect the announcement of launch of the new version of OpenNebula. It is a complete framework Open Source for service management based on the much hyped cloud computing.
    • Blender 2.67 . And another new version, this time modeling program for excellence in our scene. In Osphérica find all the details.
    • Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4 . We continue with new releases, but in this case not be necessary presentation, right? You can find information about this tool on Slashdot, and hence access to the official announcement and downloads. (Many thanks for the heads up Adrian!).
    • Chakra extra repository is ready . And so we say goodbye to the Bundles in Chakra, of which, as you recall, we talked about recently. In The Chakra Bay’s an explanation of the matter that if users are Charka and visuo have not yet … you’re taking and
    • How to turn an old netbook into a “Firebook” . This is called a tutorial that were marked in Let’s use Linux and I really liked it a pretty meh. Recommended! (Many thanks to Antonio pro notice!)
    • Android operating system is still the most profitable mobile reports to Microsoft . We could have bundled a good posting this on the front page, but it is more of the same and the issue a bit bored, right? That is, Microsoft has done well lately with Windows Phone, the latest Nokia are very cool … but nobody cares, remember at ZDNet.
    • Smartphones
    • free with Firefox OS for developers . Do you have a good project in mind for Firefox OS? Contact our fellow Mozilla indicate MuyComputer and get lucky.
    • Make your own beer with Brewtarget . Finally, the frikadas-and it would still be very curious-of the week I meet in replicating the look. And I do not need to add more.

    Although best done with a little free music produced with free tools (at least for the most part), that’s why it’s Saturday. I’m talking about an album that has published the GNU / Linux Hispasonic, which you can listen online or download from this link. We passed the link on Twitter, so thanks to whoever did it (I forget the name).

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    this application developers design, 3D modeling and rendering have announced the availability of Blender 2.64 , whose main novelty improvement in two sections that have been demonstrated in the last production audiovisual made with Blender, Tears of Steel, we talked about recently.

     500x374 Blender Blender 2.64 February 64: improvements in the composition and working with green funds

    These sections are

    composition and working with green screens or backgrounds , which as you know are used in film to place the actors or objects that are being recorded with a camera in front of virtual background computer generated.

    addition, in Blender 2.64 we find an editor interface masks in images and video , which can be defined masks manipulating curves and can activate and deactivate objects in the scene with ease.

    You can learn more about the new features of Blender 2.64 in the official announcement or the release notes, and you can download this fantastic application from the downloads page, where issues arise from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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    Tags: 3D, Blender, Blender 2.64, compositing, 3D Design, green background, green screen, 3D modeling, Open Source, render, rendering, Tears of Steel

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    class=”article first_main_article” readability=”40″>It is gratifying

    occasionally receive emails from people as Angel Sanchez , a young Valencian developer wrote me this morning to tell me that published Steampac 3D , a videogame based on the legendary Angel Pacman but that he wanted to give a twist to the magic of 3D views for which Blender and GIMP has been used extensively .

     steampac 0 500x298 Steampac 3d blender 3D, a game made here and made with Blender and GIMP

    As I explained

    this programmer in the mail,

    Despite its apparent simplicity, the merit is the use of Blender 2.63, not only in their production process, but also as a game engine. The challenge I set was to see if a game “apparently” simple as it could be done using only the system of Blender Logic Blocks.

    Indeed, except for a couple of lines of code in Python, all programming is carried out by the module Blender game development and their “logic bricks”. Also, for editing images and textures has been used as a tool GIMP.

    the original post on the blog of Angel are many more details about a game that certainly is cured in every detail and that you can learn all the details. The game has been released under GPLv2 license and is available from SourceForge in both Linux and Windows, with the intention of having it available soon on OS X.

     steampac 3d 1 500x277 Steampac blender 3D, a game made here and made with Blender and GIMP

    I’ve already tried the new Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 and works seamlessly , but before you can run it I had to install a package (‘ sudo apt-get install libsdl1. 2debian ‘, without the quotes), after which everything perfect. No doubt an exemplary effort of this Spanish programmer who as you can see on your blog is an expert in handling Blender.

    We leave with the video in which you can see in action this unique development Our sincere congratulations for this project!


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    class=”article first_main_article” readability=”37″>Blender is protagonist

    Today … After news of Steampac newly released 3D also comes another new Blender related, this stunning development for animation and 3D design. This time it is the publication of a new Open Movie of Blender Foundation. Its title: Tears of Steel .

     tears of steel 500x263 Tears of Steel, the fourth short of the Blender Foundation

    This time the short is totally different from what we had seen in the past, remember, this is the fourth after Elephants Dream (2006), Big Buck Bunny (2008) and Sintel (2010) – as it mixes images computer generated and real actors, with a visually stunning result again demonstrates that-again-that Blender can be used for projects of any size in the field of audiovisual production.

    The story we tell is really strange, but I still think that for now the shorts are the Blender Foundation plus a tribute to the power of Blender for his screenplay masterpieces. The film, which you can get many more details on the official website, below:

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    The owners of the renowned open source project announced the availability Blender 2.63 , the latest version of this software for 3D modeling and design that comes with important developments.

     blender February 63 500x400 Blender 2.63 Available: BMesh comes

    most prominent of these is BMesh , a system that completely reinvents how Blender manages the geometry, which allows models and are not limited to triangles or squares, polygons that may have any number of sides.

    addition there is a new tool solution to remove vertices, edges and other elements without causing the creation of holes in these meshes (meshes), and a new tool “knife” (“Knife”) that takes advantage of these polygons with n-sides to create clean cuts.

    The release notes also add support in Cycles of a panoramic camera and textures with floating point precision, among other innovations. The Motion Tracker feature registration and motion capture has also been improved with the introduction of a 2D image stabilization system, and there are improvements at the time to hide portions of the mesh to sculpt.

    You can check

    all the improvements in the official notes of the version, and you can download Blender for any platform which is available on the official download site. I recommend taking a look at this video which takes a tour of these developments.

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    Blender 2.62 comes with new UV tools

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    responsible for this fantastic project have announced the release of Blender 2.62, the third in a series 2.6x, which comes with UV new tools such as modeling and an interactive setting for ” align and join UV islands “.

     blender Blender 2.62 February 62 comes with new UV tools

    show at The H Open, also added support for layers and rendering steps in the rendering engine Cycles, which allows users to divide objects in a scene into multiple layers , and split the rendered images in color and with direct and indirect light.

    Other changes affect the user interface for the game engine, new paint options dynamics, support for tracking objects in videos, and WIN fixes for over 200 errors that had been discovered in previous editions.

     blender tools 500x280 February 62 uv Blender 2.62 comes with new UV tools

    Blender developers continue to maintain that pace “relentless” a new version every two months and they said “we assume that each new version is stable.” So Blender 2.63 theoretically come in April, while Blender 2.64 will do in June.

    can find more information about the update and new record both in the version as in the release notes. And of course you can download and use Blender 2.62 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and FreeBSD, we are not sure, from the official download page.

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    3 games made with Blender

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    design and development of Blender 3D animation to give good news: in addition to their regular updates, which speaks highly of the hard work done by their leaders, are the animated shorts that are surprising for their quality. And that is joined for a while games that Blender has also developed a role .

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    Tech Drive-In have done a review of 3 games that are made with Blender , which among other things no doubt noticed the visuals.

    Yo Frankie!

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    game developed by the Blender Foundation itself and can be played on both Linux and Windows or Mac OS X. As with Open Movie Project films, the game was also aimed at promoting the use of Blender.

    Dead

    Cyborg

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    type game sci-fi adventure, also freely available, is also ready to run on both Windows and Linux (Mac are preparing their version), and uses the Blender game engine to generate scenarios and other visual components.

    Steel Storm

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    is an independent game company developed by Kolt-In-Action and is really a game in two parts. The first part can be enjoyed free of charge, but the call Episode Two (Steel Storm: Burning Retribution) is a commercial product, which for example was included in the Humble Indie Bundle 3. Although the game uses the game engine Darkplace, Blender has also formed part of the development for modeling and texture mapping. Steel Storm is available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

    Tags: 3D, Animation, Blender, Cyborg Dead, 3D Design, Indie Bundle Humble, Humble Indie Bundle 3, games, modeling, Steel Storm, textures, video games, Yo Frankie!

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    Blender also in supercomputing

    first_main_article” class=”article readability=”43″>Today I am productive

    (aka weight) … but is that “I can not get to hold” so interesting news about Blender. Where before he short, supercomputing speak now … but with Blender by:)

    Who is using Blender on a supercomputer? Nothing more and nothing less than ORNL … yeah man, yeah, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, those who have Jaguar supercomputer , that of +200 thousand (224,162) cores. Now you know who I mean, right? :) For these people, ORNL, have a bug with 224,162 cores and is ranked the third most powerful machine in the world and runs Linux operating system .

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    can see by comparing the size of the machine. Here larger image:)

    The thing is that there are some awards that are called Oscars (no, not the movie, these are the: Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research ) and simulations (and videos) made on Jaguar have obtained 3 Oscars. Mike Mathson words of OLCF (Oak Ridge Laboratory Computing Facility):

    Blender runs on the Linux Supercomputer Which is based. At least, MOST of the renderer does – we do not build the engine or game player or we do not use features. [...] We use Maya / MentalRay as well Because of license restrictions But We Can never match the sheer horsepower That We Can Employ with Blender. So really our unique situation Blender Makes a great tool for us. The most cores [...] That I can think of is simultaneously using Probably around 7500-8000. [...]

    The most Demanding

    use of Blender We have presentations on Everest is for. Everest is a 35 MPixel powerwall and we do render a select FEW At This resolution animations Which is 17x HD Than High resolution (1920 × 1080). These frames are absolutely brutal and home and rendering artifact Will Be visible so it Takes a lot of care in Creating Them. These frames take a long time to render and this is the sole use case Where We Have Used Many nodes to render single frames – although we still Will Usually just 1 frame per render node. If we are doing stereo – double the effort.

    translate:

    Blender runs on the supercomputer that is Linux. At least most of it render nodes are – do not compile the player or the game engine or things that do not use. [...] We use Maya / Mental Ray too, but due to licensing restrictions, we can not equate the power we can use Blender . So our situation only makes Blender is a great tool for us. [...] The maximum number of cores we have used simultaneously to my knowledge is 7500 – 8000 cores. [...]

    Using Blender

    more power is required when using Everest for presentations. Everest is a powerwall of 35 MPixel and If you render an animation to this resolution is 17 times greater than HD (1920 × 1080) . These frames are brutal and each artifact will be visible during rendering so you need to take great care in creating them. These frames take too long to render and is the only case in which we use many nodes to render a single frame – though as a rule use a node-by-frame. If we make stereo – we bow our needs.

    can close your mouth that you are filling the floor and you will drool to dry mouth) Well a picture is worth a thousand words … there I leave with some pictures:

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     Blender, also in supercomputing

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    some videos (the winners):

    Magnetic Fields in

  • Collapse Supernovae-Core
  • Magnetic Field

  • Active Galactic Nuclei outflows from
  • Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions
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    Blender 2.60 arrives

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    3D application development is definitely one of the most respected Open Source projects and admired all over the world have spent years honing their leaders a platform to model and do all kinds of 3D animations, and WIN now celebrate the release of Blender 2.60 . Indeed, the launcher icon is especially curious because it seems to represent an ocelot, perhaps in reference to Ubuntu

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    Among the many improvements in this version integrated 3D audio are the translation of the user interface , which already supports Asian languages ​​and fonts-, improved animation system, and many new in the game engine.

    You have at your disposal all those improvements described in both the official announcement and in the Blender wiki where find all the details and video tutorials to understand what can be achieved with an application of the free software enthusiasts are especially proud.

    And do not forget that shortly (5 to 6 November) Blendiberia event is held, which can attend to take advantage of some interesting lectures and talks that will take place on Blender.

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    Blender Conference and Workshop in Segovia

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    Well, well, well … that was very writing : work, personal matters, … A scroll.

     boring lecture Blender Conference and Workshop in Segovia

    seems that now I have more free time … free time? Dreaming is free:) The thing is, try to write some stuff from time to time.

    topic. How could it be otherwise, I’ll give you a story about Blender. A few weeks ago and wrote about Blendiberia tetchy to be held in Móstoles (Spain). This post is something similar as I inform you that be held again on 3D Market Wire , like every year. This is the third eidción Market and how could it be otherwise … going to talk about Blender . This market is held in Segovia, Spain.

     header 2011 Blender Conference and Workshop in Segovia

    Some time ago I mentioned that I attended talks about Blender here in Segovia in 2009 from the eidción 3D Market Wire. It was very interesting because Daniel Martinez Lara came and Claudio “evil” Andaur. This year there will be a talk on Saturday 15 October at 18:45 :

    Blender and its game engine: free software to create video games

    Sunday 16 there will be a workshop :

    Workshop

    game creation with Blender 3D Modeling

    the workshop must register as places are limited so do not leave it to the last minute;)

    For those willing and able to come, I encourage you to come near and fellowship. As if this were not enough to dare to come … take a look at the event program, which has other interesting lectures, an animation contest, screenings and parties at night .

    Well, post short, but informative;) You know: on Saturday there is talk about Blender at Segovia, and when done … to visit Segovia at night:)

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