Re: Tonight's meeting

["Waylena McCully" <wmccully@parkland.edu>]

I never make it to meetings because I am in Champaign and taking night
classes,
but I want to say that I'm glad to see Blender being introduced. I've
been using Blender 
for the last three years, first on Windows and now on both (Linux at
home, Windows at 
work). In fact, it was the Blender community that initially got me
interested in Linux.   

The graphics and animations I create with Blender are appearing in many
of our newer
Planetarium shows. There's a built-in editor that has some neat
compositing tools, and
many output options. The interface is indimidating at first, but well
worth it.

For anyone who's interested, there's more information on Blender
available at 
www.blender.org  (the official site) and www.elysiun.com  (the most
active community site).

Have fun!

-Waylena


Waylena M. McCully, 
Production Designer/Producer
William M. Staerkel Planetarium
(217) 403-4596
wmccully@parkland.edu

>>> erich@museum.state.il.us 09/09/03 08:20AM >>>
Hi all,
  I have come across a repackaging of Knoppix, going by the name of
"Media 
Linux". This contains all of the multimedia packages available under 
Debian. I thought that I would have it running on a number of the
machines 
in the Technology Learning Center of the ISM RCC, so maybe we can
wander 
together through the variety of programs available.
  This version of Knoppix also contains the 3d modeling/animation
software 
called "blender" so I can also give a very basic introduction to this 
powerful (and confusing) software.

  As usual, the meeting will be at the Illinois State Museum Research
and 
Collections Center, located at 1011 East Ash Street, and accessed from
10 
1/2 street.

Erich


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