Small Blender Things

Some time ago I wrote about a routine to calculate the closest distance to a quadratic bezier spline and recently I reused this routine aga...

Falling snowflakes are easy enough to dimulate in Blender with a particle system but if quite a few of them might be seen fairly close up, t...

Last weekend I had the pleasure to read Blender 3D printing esentials by Gordon Fisher. Gordon previously authored Blender 3D Basics and...

The next few days I will be reading Blender 3D printing esentials and I hope to write up a full review shortly. If you would like to know...

The basic idea of this shader is to scatter around wiggly lines that can be used as fibers, hairs or, like in the image below, noodles. Eac...

A while ago when I started this blog I created a simple shader for chocolate sprinkles and while I was reviewing comments I noticed that th...

The other day I was reading about old printing techniques and I wanted to create the look and feel of screen printing with half tones and s...