Anyone in the #blender community (maybe @aras ?) know how to get all the cage info for a NURBS surface in Blender using the Python API? I’d like to export the NURBS geometry to a text file.
In the python console I see that I can access e.g. `bpy.context.selected_objects[0].data.splines[0].points[1].weight`, but not sure about connectivity info and the 3D coordinates of each point. Struggling to find this documented anywhere.
CW: Flashing imagery
Better quality version and behind the scenes pictures: https://rykarn.se/2025/09/29/hex
Texturing this guy was fun!
I'm particularly proud of the procedural scales, but the fins turned out well too.
It'll probably need some tweaks when I start putting the fish in an environment, but I'll worry about that later. 
Enough doom scrolling for today, here's some glitter for your timeline.
This is simple 2D curl noise in #Blender, combined with a few separation substeps, and some shader magic.
Here's another one of these flowy knot renders, but with the "cords" visible. 
Further exploring Blender's Geometry Nodes. Still enjoying it. Here's a star field warp kinda thingy. Another wink to classic Amiga "demoscene" effects. 
I've added the fully adjustable Blender scene to my shop, in case you're interested:
Started fooling around a bit with Blender's Geometry Nodes.
The first thing I just had to do is create an Amiga demoscene-like sinus snake. Of course, Blender's Suzanne monkey head had to be the victim of this experiment. 
"Was heute noch wie ein Märchen klingt, kann morgen schon Realität sein. Hier ist ein Märchen von übermorgen."
"What sounds like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow. Here is a fairy tale from the day after tomorrow."
Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) was a short-lived scifi tv show from germany, that aired in 1966 and was released very shortly after the Star Trek premiere in september of that year. The main space ship was the "Orion". This is a first test render of a modern interpretation I did a few years ago in Maxon&Redshift and now converted to #Blender. WIP.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #art #Raumpatrouille #SpacePatrol #Orion #RaumpatrouilleFanArt #OrionFanArt
New TracerBlender v1.1.2 now works on #Blender 4.5 LTS.
Crisp, ray traced 256x424 SCREEN 8 output, straight from #MSX BASIC, but modeled using the newest Blender.
Details and download: https://codeberg.org/randysimons/TracerBlender
This wild mine cart ride animation is finally done!
You can watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/yk0HXp93GX0
Ascend
Perry Rhodan style spheroid spaceship leaving earth. I created one of those a few years ago in C4D/Redshift, but since Maxon became evil and I am switching to Blender I decided to try a conversion. Of course all Redshift materials are lost when exporting to gltf (or other formats), so a complete reshadering was neccessary. This is a WIP and a first test render.
#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #art #3D #PerryRhodan #PerryRhodanFanArt #Spaceship #SpheroidSpaceship #Blender #Blender3D
If you'd like to explore preparing models for 3D-printing in Blender, I once wrote this tutorial about it, including non-destructive hollowing by using a stack of modifiers…
https://cgcookie.com/posts/how-to-prepare-objects-for-3d-printing-in-blender
OK Go - Impulse Purchase. Heavily featuring 
#blender and geometry nodes, a collab with blender studio. Production file and some tech bits over here: https://studio.blender.org/blog/impulse-purchase-production-file/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzbIUffcR4
The OK GO and Blender Studio collab is sweet! <3
Somehow I missed this. OK Go isn't something you'd find me listeining to, but I wouldn't turn them off if they came up in a radio.
But their videos are nothing short of amazing and I am excited to watch and rewatch their masterpieces over and over again.
Blender Studio collaborating with them is great news on its own, but learning about OSC and potentially using something like that for my live performances would be even more rad.
https://studio.blender.org/blog/announcing-an-animated-video-project-with-ok-go/
