Blender

Overview

• Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline - modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools.

  • documentation and python api

Using

Use the module name blender to discover versions available and to load the application.

GUI

The blender application can be started as a GUI when run via an interactive desktop on SouthPass.

Multicore

The blender application can utilize multiple cores, but it depends on the task being performed i.e. general viewport navigation versus rendering versus simulations whether it does or not.

GPU Capabilities:

Blender does have GPU and Python related GPU capabilities:

• GPU Rendering

• Linux - Nvidia: Blender uses of OpenGL for the 3D Viewport and user interface. The graphics card (GPU) and driver have a big impact on Blender’s behavior and performance.

• Python: GPU Module (gpu)

Currently, GPUs are not available via the SouthPass interactive desktops. But, potentially, a blender related python script code be run on a gpu compute node.