Blender & Science - Episode 3

Published 2022-12-11

Rounding out 2022 with Blender and Science Episode 3. In this video I cover exciting new developments in Blender, walkthrough some assets for creating 2D materials and battery figures, highlight some recent work throughout the blender community, and close out with some opinions on the responsibilities of researchers, with a specific focus on the topic of AI Art.

Invitation to our community discord: discord.gg/p62E9qzHbT

Proko Podcast Episodes on AI Art:
Discussion with an AI Developer:    • What AI Developers Want Artists to Kn...
Discussion with Artists:    • AI Ethics, Artists, and What You Can ...

Video and Feature Links:
Brady at BCON:    • Visualising viruses
Freya's Video on the Continuity of Splines:    • The Continuity of Splines
Erindale's Video on Scripting CSV import:    • Geo Nodes and Python - Blender Tutorial
Old Lithium Cobalt Oxide walkthrough:    • Free Lithium Cobalt Oxide Lattices fo...
Ryo Mizuta Graphics on Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/ryo_m_graphics
Alex Hadjilaou (AlexHH from our Discord) on Twitter: twitter.com/hadjilaou
Microsingularity: youtube.com/@MicroSingularity
Entropic: youtube.com/@entropic8039

My BCON 2022 Talk Recommendations for Scientists:
Architectural Tools:    • The architectural design and visualiz...
Z-Anatomy:    • Z-Anatomy: The open source 3D atlas o...
Machine Learning Trains:    • Train the train by generating data fr...
Synthetic Data Sets:    • Generating synthetic data for deep le...
Polyhaven:    • Poly Haven: Free content as a busines...
Bonus - Advanced Physics for Celestial Bodies:    • Advanced physics for atmosphere and c...

Asset and Blender Links:
Blender Launcher: dotbow.github.io/Blender-Launcher/
Pureref: www.pureref.com/
Simulation nodes: builder.blender.org/download/experimental/ (under the branch heading)

My Asset Links:
Lithium Cobalt Oxide: cgfigures.gumroad.com/l/Egazp?layout=profile
Metal Dichalcogenides: cgfigures.gumroad.com/l/MetalDichalcogenides?layou…
Graphene and Boron Nitride: cgfigures.gumroad.com/l/grhZH?layout=profile

The CGFigures Asset Library:
A compilation of most of what I've released/will release in one CC0 package:
Free at: www.cgfigures.ca/assetlibrary
Launch video:    • Blender for Scientists - The CGFigure...

On Gumroad (if you'd like to pay to support it. More of this will go to me directly though I do donate to the blender dev fund every month as a gold level supporter): cgfigures.gumroad.com/l/TheCGFiguresAssetLibrary

On Blendermarket (if you'd like to pay to support it and directly contribute to the blender development fund, 25% of the cost): blendermarket.com/products/the-cgfigures-asset-lib…

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Overview
0:40 The Blender Launcher
1:36 Developments in the Blender Community
2:04 Channels Recommendations for Simulation Nodes
3:53 New Features in Blender 3.4
4:45 Blender Conference 2022
5:14 Quick Tip 1 - Quick Light Control
6:10 Quick Tip 2 - Organizing Nodes
6:55 Main Walkthrough Section
7:56 Working with the Assets
12:43 Recreating 2D Material Figures
15:54 Manual Customization of Geonodes Assets for 2D Materials
22:06 Common Battery Figures Breakdown
24:08 Recreating a Standard Lithium Ion Battery
26:55 Working with the Lithium Cobalt Oxide
33:07 Making the Porous Separator in Geonodes
36:58 Points on Surfaces and Space-Filling Points Figures
46:12 Community Updates - CGFigures Hits 10K
46:36 Community Updates - Jorge's Periodic Table
47:07 Community Updates - Bobby Broccoli and Asset Feedback
47:45 Community Updates - Sam M
48:16 Community Updates - Erindale and Accessible Themes
48:55 Community Updates - Freya's Videos
49:23 Community Updates - Erindale Again - Python Scripting for Importing CSVs to Geonodes
49:42 Community Updates - New Tutorials from Microsingularity, Entropic, Jojo's coming tutorial, and Dr. Peter's Workshop in Auckland
50:31 Community Updates - Brady Goes to BCON 2022
51:15 Community Updates - My Recommendations for BCON Talks for Scientists
51:36 Inspiration - Phospho's New Video with MaastrichtU
52:17 Commentary - AI, Art, and our Role as Researchers

For more CGFigures content checkout the links below:
Patreon: www.patreon.com/cgfigures
Twitter: twitter.com/CgFigures
Instagram: www.instagram.com/cgfigures
Website: www.cgfigures.ca/
Blendswap: www.blendswap.com/profile/1324219/blends
Gumroad: gumroad.com/cgfigures

@MRF77 1 year ago

Please consider doing full tutorials of different battery and other electrochemical devices.

@BradyJohnston 1 year ago

Yet another great Blender & Science episode. Thanks for providing such comprehensive overviews of everything!

@delta911turbo 10 months ago

I've been using Blender for years now and watch most of the videos during that time on the topic.. not once have I heard someone point out the feature to change the lights that way. Thank you sharing that.

@truepolymorph1782 1 year ago

I joined at 10k. And i will follow until you reach the big Mil. Great work

@yash1152 1 year ago

4:58 scientist giving talk on using molecular nodes to visualise viruses - wow, that seems awesome

@no_one161 1 year ago

Thank u.. u r the best

6:09 another nice little tip is to ever so often just poke around most all menus you can think of and see if they have smth new.... i'll admit that i used to do this before when i was a kid, but now i have become quit busy and can't do this myself anymore either orrrr maybe just that the tools i use nowadays are always changing

@sonjoydeytusher8244 1 year ago

Have been waiting for these for a while! Great job my man!

@UmeshSuryawanshi-pm3hm 1 year ago

Your videos are so helpful. Could you please make a tutorial video for 3D Nickel foam and Nanostructures like Nanosheets, Nanorods, Nanowires, etc. It would be really helpful for me. Thank you.

@ilyas7867 8 months ago

Hey, thanks so much for your great job! I have one question on how to make MoS2 stacks. I've checked previous videos but still a little confused. Could you please give me some tips? By the way, I think videos about 2D materials will be much popular, also their heterostructures. Thanks.