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Webinar Talk on Blender and 3D Graphics at the Henry Royce Institute, The University of Manchester, UK

https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/stand-out-skills-webinar-3d-scientific-visualization-with-blender/

June 2023

Tutorials for the Royce Institute Webinar Series

Dr. Brian R. Kent, Director of Science Communications

Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @VizAstro
https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Vpju5Mwig

Royce Institute website: https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/stand-out-skills-webinar-3d-scientific-visualization-with-blender/

Blender resources

Blender interface intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3qtedwbSI

BlenderGuru intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4&list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U

Open Shading Language (OSL): https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage

Blender OSL documentation: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/osl.html

OSL Tutorial: https://thhube.github.io/tutorials/osl/osl.html

OpenVDB (not using this today, but is supported by Blender): https://www.openvdb.org/

Great AstroPy tutorial on working with FITS cubes: https://learn.astropy.org/rst-tutorials/FITS-cubes.html

My YouTube channel - videos and tutorials:https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualizeAstronomy/videos

Publications and References:

3D Scientific Visualization with Blender: https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6270-5612-0

Visualization in Astronomy: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1538-3873/page/Techniques-and-Methods-for-Astrophysical-Data-Visualization

Extragalactic Distance Database: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AJ....138..323T/abstract

CT Scan data: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/voldata/

360 Video and Spherical Panoramas: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PASP..129e8004K/abstract

Neutral Hydrogen data cubes: https://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/THINGS/Data.html

Visualization Colorimetry

https://seaborn.pydata.org/

https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html#general-principles-for-using-color-in-plots

See references at the bottom of this page: https://medium.com/hipster-color-science/a-beginners-guide-to-colorimetry-401f1830b65a

Talk by Dr. Michael Waters: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7s9seplrnw3ea7p/Practical_Colorimetry_for_Scientific_Visualization_-_Michael_J_Waters_-_2021_3_14.pdf