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Top 5: Tips for GitHub, alternatives to Acrobat, and more
[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight tips for getting started with GitHub, alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs, how to secure your Linux system, thoughts on the Google v. Oracle case, and how to get started using IRC for chat. Top 5 articles of the week 5.An IRC quickstart guide VM Brasseur provides…
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Blender 2.7 Tutorial #11 : Intro to Lighting & Rendering in Cycles #b3d
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gTMORaEygRE/hqdefault.jpg Visit my Blender 2.7 Tutorial Series playlist for more Blender Tutorials: In this Tutorial #11 I cover: -How to allow material colors to display in a 3D viewport window. -How to light a scene without any lights (world material) -3 types of lamps: Point, Sun, and Area, and their differences -using lamps with nodes,…
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CGI 3D Animated Short HD: “Caminandes 3” – by Blender Foundation
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0MgeBzzCBWM/hqdefault.jpg Check out this adorable short called “Caminandes – 3”, episode 3 of the Caminandes cartoon series we learn to know our hero Koro even better! It’s winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin, in an epic fight over that last tasty berry.For more information, please…
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The Basics of Good Texturing in Blender
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rzXNZkEoTAk/hqdefault.jpg Blender tutorial showing you how to create your own realistic material and textures. Download the texture: http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/basics-realistic-texturing/ Sign up to be a Beta Tester of the new site: http://www.poliigon.com source
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Introduction to the Cycles Rendering Engine
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UTwXG3K4l2g/hqdefault.jpg Blender Tutorial: http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/introduction-to-cycles In this tutorial you will discover: -The difference between the internal renderer and Cycles -Some of the cool features of Cycles -How to create your very first Cycles render -Using lights, materials, textures and bump mapping -How I made the donut scene source
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Rumors of COBOL's demise have been greatly exaggerated: Meet GnuCOBOL
[ad_1] A recent article on Slashdot points out with some chagrin that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Veterans Affairs in the United States still use COBOL, originally invented in 1959, based on work by the late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. The implication is—and has been for some years in the IT community—that…
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Free culture in an expensive world
[ad_1] Open Source Bridge is coming up on June 21 in Portland, and you can catch the commotion ramping up on Twitter. In this interview I talk with Shauna Gordon-McKeon about her involvement in the free software and free culture communities, her day job, and her upcoming talk Free culture in an expensive world. Shauna is a programmer, researcher,…
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How a student in India got started with open source
[ad_1] Many of us aspire to contribute to open source projects, but only a few are able to actually do it. We’re all perennially short of time, and we’re always prioritizing. But how do the people who actually contribute to projects find time? What is it that they know and others don’t? We can learn…
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Short Film Sintel 3D Movie : HD Blender Video Animation
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LSHLg4hEVZ8/hqdefault.jpg Sintel Blender 3D movie animation by Durian open project is a short film in an High definition video HD for youtube. This Sintel video animation published on my youtube channel in HD is Licensed as CC Attribution 3.0 © copyright Blender Foundation | durian.blender.org source
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How to Make Fur in Blender
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EVj1fETtuN8/hqdefault.jpg Blender tutorial showing you how to use particle strands to make a cute fluffy ball. Read the text summary: http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/fluffy-fur-ball/ Get Pro-Lighting Studio: http://www.blenderguru.com/product/pro-lighting-studio/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=tutorial&utm_campaign=FurTut source