The Notes:

Our notes are based on Blender version 4.1, but any version that you have that is 3.5 or greater should be fine.

These are the notes:

• One slide per page
• Two slides per page
• Four slides per page
• Six slides per page

Latest update of these notes: July 15, 2024

Here's Something Fun -- You Can Place 3D Blender Scenes on a Web Page!

Blender Files:

These are Blender example files from the notes.
Blender Campers: please pre-load these on your memory stick!

anim1.blend	One-character animation
anim2.blend	Two-character animation
balltubes.blend	Physics: ball rolls down tubes
blowing.blend	Blowing particles (see particles.blend below)
cloth.blend	Cloth animation
cloth.pinned.blend	Pinned-cloth animation
cornhole.blend	Using physics to get a cube to bounce into a hole
cycles.blend	Cycles-rendering scene
cycles_stereo.blend	Spherical Stereo for a VR Headset
cycles_stereo_spherical.jpg	Spherical Stereo image for a VR Headset
dominos.blend	Rigid body dominos animation
fluidmonkeycone.blend	Monkey-fluid falling over a cone
fluttering.blend	A flag fluttering in the breeze
freestyle.blend	Freestyle rendering
golf.blend	Physics: ball rolls into a hole
hinge.blend	Rigid body joint
lattice.blend	Modeling with lattices
meshes.blend	The Blender set of mesh objects
mist.blend	Shows use of the mist option
model.blend	Human-ish model
modelmoved.blend	Human-ish model posed
parent-child.blend	Parent-child relationship
particles.blend	Non-blowing particle system (see blowing.blend above)
reflrefr.blend	A scene with reflection and refraction
reflrefr6.blend	A scene with lots of reflection and refraction
rigid.blend	Rigid body motion
scene.blend	A scene we will use to talk about rendering
stereo.blend	Stereographics
textures.blend	Both procedural and image textures
wireframe.blend	Using the wireframe modifier
worldtex.bmp	A texture file of the world

And, if you want textures for other planets, visit one of NASA's sites at: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/images

Also check out: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/

and: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Obj Files:

Pre-created files that can be imported into Blender:

cat.obj	Cat
bunny010n.obj	The Stanford Bunny
cow.obj	Cow
dino.obj	Triceratops
dog.obj	Dog
skeleton.obj	Human skeleton
shapeship.obj	Spaceship
teapot.obj	Teapot

Blender Videos:

anim2,mp4	Two-character animation
cloth,mp4	Cloth animation
dominos,mp4	Falling-dominos physical simulation
fluttering.mkv	A flag fluttering in the breeze.
lattice,mp4	Lattice sculpting
particles,mp4	Particle simulation
reflrefr6,avi	An animation with lots of reflection and refraction

Good Blender Web References:

• Main Blender Site (includes the Download link) http://www.blender.org/

• Andrew Price's Blender Guru site http://www.blenderguru.com/

• Blender Tutorials https://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/

• 3D Models (some free, some not) http://turbosquid.com/

• 3D Models (some free, some not) http://tf3dm.com/

• Swapping Blender Assets (one membership level is free, one costs money) http://www.blendswap.com/

Good Printed Blender References:

• John Blain, The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation, Seventh Edition, CRC Press, 2022.

Did you like these notes? Want to try some other fun K-12 stuff from Oregon State University?

• Scratch notes -- drag and drop programmiung with animation and sound, and even some game development

• SketchUp notes -- who would have ever guessed it was so easy to draw in 3D?

• TinkerCAD notes -- this is really good if you want to make models that can be 3D-printed

• Processing notes -- serious graphics programming

• A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics

Related college courses at Oregon State University:

• Intro to Computer Graphics

• Computer Graphics Shaders

• ParaView -- Interactive 3D Visualization

• Vulkan

• Parallel Programming (includes GPU programming)

• Computer Science Skills for Simulation and Game Programming

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