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An open-source 3D creation suite for modeling, animation, and rendering.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 51%.
Evidence (4)
- 3Hacker News·8/11/2026researchMaking Holograms with a Pen Plotter
The article explains how a pen plotter can be used to create hand-etched hologram-like images by drawing reflective ridges whose curvature controls how highlights move. It builds the idea from intuitive optics, showing how the technique can render depth without traditional holography equipment.
- 4Hacker News·7/13/2026researchBenchmarking Old Tesla GPUs on Modern AI and Rendering Workloads
A hardware enthusiast benchmarked 15 retired NVIDIA Tesla enterprise GPUs, including K80, P100, and V100 cards, across modern workloads such as ResNet50, vision transformers, Blender, and llama.cpp. The article argues that these low-cost, end-of-life GPUs can still be useful in homelab settings if users accept higher power consumption and older software stacks.
- 7Hacker News·6/30/2026open_sourceZLUDA 6 adds PhysX, Blender texture support, and better Windows compatibility
ZLUDA has released version 6, a new major update for its project that enables unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs. The update adds pre-alpha 32-bit PhysX support, basic texture support that also enables Blender, and improved Windows handling for performance libraries and loaders.
- 7Anthropic News·4/28/2026product_launchAnthropic Adds Creative-Work Connectors for Claude
Anthropic announced new connectors that let Claude work directly with creative software such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton Live, SketchUp, Splice, Autodesk Fusion, Resolume, and Affinity by Canva. The company also highlighted uses like tutoring, code generation, pipeline bridging, and repetitive production tasks, and introduced Claude Design for exploring software experience ideas with export to Canva.