6 takeaways from the 2024 Blender Conference last week:
1. Ton’s goal is to 2-4x devfund donations. Blender currently has very low contributions compared to similar open-source projects. So join the devfund! https://t.co/QL2cmcpBjC
2. Ton only pays himself $10K p/mo (and that's a recent raise).
3. Blender is not against incorporating AI, provided it empowers artists and it makes sense for the task. https://t.co/ZUElonVw8H
4. Blender team recognizes it’s “years behind” being able to implement cutting edge graphics research papers. https://t.co/nfjb0CG063
5. NPR (non-photorealistic rendering) is gaining traction in Blender. All the Suzanne film festival winners were stylized NPR. And the upcoming 4.3 introduces a completely rewritten grease pencil system + procedural oil painting. So it’ll probably gain even further adoption in coming years. https://t.co/h10bxrKENK
6. Every 3 seconds someone downloads Blender (20 million p/yr). https://t.co/jHlC1FIqpW
#bcon24
Audio Universe are delighted to announce that we have released a Portuguese version of Audio Universe: Tour of the Solar System. Please share among the Portuguese speaking community!
https://t.co/iH2moVr7vv
It’s my pleasure to introduce the M-TOPnet (Multi-Task network Outputting Probabilities) pipeline to you 😎🙃
"Measuring redshift and galaxy properties via a multi-task neural net with probabilistic outputs: an application to simulated MOONS spectra"
https://t.co/AlgCLXhAyu
📣 Announcement 📣
We're delighted to reveal that we have officially signed a 999-year lease on our London headquarters, having agreed a deal with the Government earlier this year to transfer the building's ownership.
Read more about what it means here: https://t.co/F0lWpJyU3H
https://t.co/eyJ8rFRMQL
New paper day! Duncan's latest work on Resonant Shattering Flares (RSFs) from merging neutron stars, determining if they would be good tests of Chiral Effective Field theory, a theoretical approach to dense matter below a few times nuclear density 1/2
Come and work on gravitational waves at @yale with one of our exciting postdoctoral fellowships!
There is the YCAA Fellowship for astrophysics, https://t.co/2pAUz5WwYj
AND
The Mossman Fellowship, which is open to any field of physics, https://t.co/kXsmUbSRRZ
Happy to share that I am organizing an ALMA data reduction workshop on Oct 29 at @UMDAstronomy, supported by @TheNRAO! Anyone interested in ALMA is welcome to join. Free registration, and lunch provided if sign up by Oct 23!
👇 More info & registration:
https://t.co/F363WedaUM
Hi early career astronomers! @ExoCharbonneau's excellent presentation on "How to apply for Postdocs (in the USA)" as part of our @CenterForAstro workshops is now available for you on YouTube: https://t.co/XUZnLmzKQX, The slides are at https://t.co/chIwqk9UZJ
Join us on Wednesday 30th October for اكتشاف النظام الشمسي (Solar System Discovery), a planetarium show presented live by astrophysicist Houda Haidar (@blackholephd) in Arabic.
It's been over 10 years since we released Rogue Legacy 1, and in the pursuit of sharing knowledge, we are officially releasing the source code to the public.
https://t.co/BwIYTBIn7X
Eternal thanks to @flibitijibibo for setting this up, and being with us since the beginning.