[Noisebridge-discuss] Interest in a Blender / Computer Graphics class?

[Daniel Dunbar]

Hey Mike,

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Although I'm always limited in time, I have a mild interest in
> 3D stuff, and little-to-no knowledge of it.
>
> The machine learning group meets up every Wednesday at
> 7:30pm in the Church classroom, and a few weeks ago we
> watched a video where these artificial 3D lifeforms were evolved
> in an environment and learned to move around and fight for
> food.
>
> I just came across some interesting "Blender in AI" pdf too:
>
> http://download.blender.org/documentation/bc2008/BlenderAI.pdf
>
> Anyways, although I'm just one person in the ML group, it could
> be potentially fun and interesting for us to share space in the Church
> classroom some time and talk about blender and how to use it for
> creating virtual environments. What do you think? I cc'ed the ML list
> in case anyone else has an interest.

I could be up for this. I don't really know anything about AI but I
can explain what Blender can and can't do...

One thing I imagine covering in a Blender / 3D class is how to use the
Python scripting AIs inside Blender as an "easy" introduction into
working with 3D stuff.

 - Daniel

>
>  mike
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Timmy Shih Jun Yee
>> <yu.shijun at masterofpi.org> wrote:
>>> On 04/09/2011 11:54 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone be interested in a Blender (open source 3D software,
>>>> http://blender.org) or more generally a computer graphics class? I can
>>>> teach either the "how to use 3D software" or the "how to write 3D
>>>> software side" (or both), depending on interest.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in a Blender / computer graphics class. I've taken a computer
>>> graphics class back in my college years, but my skills in that field is
>>> rusty now. I was also looking into learning Blender until I got busy
>>> recently.
>>
>> Cool! Are you interested more in the using 3D software or the writing
>> 3D software side?
>>
>>>> There are other things I'd enjoy opining about, but it seems like the
>>>> programming class spectrum is already pretty well covered. However, if
>>>> someone is dying to learn how assemblers or compilers work, I can
>>>> teach that too. :)
>>>
>>> A class like that would be cool too. :)
>>>
>>> What times are you thinking of teaching any of these classes? For me,
>>> weekends and nights are best since I have a regular 9 to 5 job.
>>
>> A weekday night works best for me, I was kind of thinking Wed or Thu
>> but I am flexible.
>>
>>  - Daniel
>>
>>>
>>> --Timmy
>>>
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