[Edu-sig] PyGLUT + Blender update

[Jason Cunliffe]

Well Happy New Year of The Snake to you all

I am sorry if this is old or offedutopic news.. but I really thought you
might appreciate to hear that the good work continues in the strangely
feverish world of Blender developers and fans.
http://www.blender.nl

The new Game Blender v2.++ is attracting a lot of people initially make
[doh] games+ 3Danimation.
But soon they start asking about Python..sucked in by itse spell, promise
and potential ;-) Seems to be gaining an especiatl following in the UK,
Holland, Germany and France [The E-connection perhaps?]

some links to browse..

a french site
http://blender.free.fr/docs/didac1.htm

an article in German on Python programming for Blender
http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/2000/04/Blender/blender4.html

exporting blender to other renderers
http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/


Complete Blender - Python Script introduction [site is 'bilangue' = French +
English!]

Truly this is an excellent site - there is a so much here to consider. A
valuable resource to demonstrate and motivate any Python class; how
scripting languages connect to other program environments etc.

http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/python_script00.htm
Lovely Potatoids!!
http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/python_script05.htm
tesselate - eat your hearts out.
http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/python_wireshadows.htm

http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/index_prog_python.h
tm


Two key people in the Python-Blender work:
'jan' [the guy at Nan responsible for digging in deep to create for Blender
a truly useful Python API]
and
'tHe-IcemAn' [a master Blender user with some great tutorials and fan of
PyGLUT
http://205.152.62.12/gruff/
http://blender.free.fr/docs/didactic/iceman/index-ice.htm

Also there is a very nice new beginners Blender book out from the lively
'No-Starch Press'
http://www.nostarch.com/?blender

Deutschsprachige Informationen zu Blender und dem Buch gibt es auf:
http://www.blenderbuch.de/


Nan's revised tutuorial/books for v2 are due out soon too:
http://www.blender.nl/showitem.php?id=103
http://www.blender.nl/shop/tuto2/index.html

and an interesting book of Blender art by Shigeto Maeda
http://www.blender.nl/shop/kara/index.html


enjoy
-Jason
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Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology']