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Symmetry Tile Painting in Blender

After working out how to use Blender to paint hyperbolic tilings I then thought of using Blender to look at planar symmetric tilings. A while back I wrote a GIMP plugin which takes ...

Painting in the Hyperbolic Plane

While playing around texturing the hyperbolic football from the previous post I discovered this technique for painting hyperbolic tilings directly in Blender. Download the hyperboli...

Hyperbolic Tiling in 3D

In a previous post I explained the shape of planes, spheres, and hyperbolic planes in terms of hexagons arranged around either another hexagon (plane), a pentagon (sphere) or a hepta...

Shaders for Sverchok 04 - Vertex Colors Update

When I wrote my Shaders for Sverchok 02 - Vertex Colors post, I used a small piece of python code to assign the vertex colors. Sverchok now has a "Vertex Colors" node and I'll now sh...

Blender Linked Stars

I've been fascinated by the structure of Bathsheba Grossman's Quin Pendant Lamp since I first saw it. There are many tutorials around the web for making a similar structure in differ...