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Just a short notice: Blender 2.46 is due to be released in april/march 2008. The list of features is amazing. I’m most excited about the ability to simulate anisotropic materials and Gloss. Both i need for my day-job so I’m looking forward to them.. I’m also interested in the way this has been implemented and [...]

Phew! At last i was able to build and even modify the blender sources. I need to do that for my current project:
I’m trying to Simulate different BRDF-models for my research using the render engine of blender. It was easy to find the source code locations, where i had to change it, but the hard [...]

Ever been looking for a system to manage your list of literature? Well, only think about the time needed to write a thesis, a paper or any other publication. Most of the time, you’re searching for “that paper”, you’ve just read some months or even years ago.. Then, you’d like to have the documents that [...]

Information management is a complex field and the solutions available - be they freeware, open source or commercial - to gather, organize and interlink information range from small post-its up to complete version-based and multi-author capable wikis and project content management systems.
Me, I’m used to creating simple and small text files with a more or [...]

For the last month I’ve been working on my final year project (Diplomarbeit) which consists of a measurement integration for high precision forged crankshafts. The institute I’m working at has bought a shaft measurement system. The system from Hommelwerke (Jena) uses the principle of light projection and - using focused light-rays - can detect geometrical [...]