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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 4d

This has been in the making for a while, and it's coming soon:

An interactive 3D viewer for my virtual reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, right in your browser.

More details to follow. Stay tuned!

#tenochtitlan #blender #threejs

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 25d

I'm working on something, and it's almost done. More soon :)

#tenochtitlan #webgl #blender #b3d

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 27d

I will never not enjoy the wildly inaccurate battery level estimations of my laptop

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Aug 24

@aras-p.bsky.social would be proud

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Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social · May 1

Señor Flow in Mexico

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Apr 10

What a treat!

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Mar 23

The overlapping wires scare me. Is it nice?

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Blender @blender.org · Mar 18

Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 4.4! 🚀

A massive milestone in stability, with over 700 issues fixed and packed with features. Ready for production.

✨ What's new: www.blender.org/download/rel...
🧡 Donate: fund.blender.org #b3d

4.4 — blender.org

Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Feb 14

Wait till you hear about _harden normal_

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hey, glad to see you here :)

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 26

Classic heightmap painting (in Gimp), displacing, wrapping.

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 26

By offsetting the rough wood normal map per carve layer, a lot of depth is added.

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 26

Fictional Huehuetl model in Blender. #b3d #aztec #huehuetl

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 17

It's being resolved, sorry for the wait!

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 14

Mexico City is currently blessed with beautiful snow capped Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. Snow occurred in Tenochtitlan, and there's even a record of a proper blizzard. #cdmx #nieve #tenochtitlan

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 14

Of course I had to go see it. Very cool that a movie made with @blender3d.bsky.social, is playing in my local theater. Congrats Flow people!

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Jan 2

correcto ;)

Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 31

Smart, I'm gonna use this for my night-time shot.
How do you handle night looking the same as day? I'm just shifting white balance but that seems wrong?

Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 28

Sure:

I store the signed edge angle. Then I use values >0 for leaking, and <0 for dirt accumulation.

I then apply a bevel modifier with 2 segments and profile shape 1.0.

Then I store edge angle again, but this time that curvature is limited to the radius of the bevel. Does that make sense?

Edge Angle Node - Blender 4.3 ManualContentsMenuExpandLight modeDark modeAuto light/dark, in light modeAuto light/dark, in dark mode

docs.blender.org

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 23

I'm going for the Huizachtecatl

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 23

Indeed with the sweeping and the cleaning it would have been pretty clean. Even in a year stucco does weather a bit, I think this is not overdoing it (yet)

But, this is not Tenochtitlan ;)
Can you guess what temple this is?

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 22

Two masks: large-scale curvature and small-scale edges. Both populated via Geometry Nodes. And wireframe.

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 22

basecolor and... whatever this is (dirt from accumulation and deposition, it's applied subtly)

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 22

White / Black. Notice the chipped normals near the edges (might require some zooming)

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · Dec 22

Mostly procedural weathering in Blender / Cycles. Dirt accumulates in corners, edges of stucco are chipped. Rain leaves streaks across the vertical surfaces, and puddles in the floor. Everything is driven via Geometry Nodes #b3d #blender #aztec

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