Blender.jl

Description

Julia interface to Blender-as-a-Python-module (easily installable on Archlinux via Aur; note that you typically would have to change your Python vendor to the system-wide installation, see here for details). Main point is to be able to programmatically render from Julia and to provide a base layer on top of which a BlenderPlot.jl package could rest.

Usage example

using Blender

Blender.render("examples/simple")

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Saved: 'examples/simple.png'
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Ideas

• Make use of JuliaGeometry family of packages.
  • Blender can be used to load different mesh formats, but it does not hurt to be able to use MeshIO.jl as well.
• Easily select rendering engine [Blender standard, Cycles (CPU/GPU), &c.]
• Node materials
  • Should be easily saved/loaded
  • Open node editor without loading all of Blender?