{"id":4287,"date":"2015-04-02T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:37:18","slug":"blender-day-9-cycles-render-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/blender-day-9-cycles-render-engine","title":{"rendered":"Blender &#8211; Day 9 &#8211; Cycles Render Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Who likes waiting?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\nI must confess that I was never a big fan of the rendering process. Clicking a button and then waiting minutes while an image (or portion of an image) appears, is&#8230; painful.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was all the years working in I.T.. I calculated it ounce, based on a few projects that I worked on. I spent over a year of my life staring at progress bars.<\/p>\n<p>0%&#8230;. 10%&#8230;. 50%&#8230; 51%&#8230;. 52%&#8230;. 53%&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>*passes out*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blender<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-from-2015-04-02-092504.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4296 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-from-2015-04-02-092504.jpg\" alt=\"blender day 9 monkey in cycles\" width=\"900\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-from-2015-04-02-092504.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-from-2015-04-02-092504-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot-from-2015-04-02-092504-788x570.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis brings me to Blender&#8217;s relatively new render engine, Cycles. Separate from Blender&#8217;s built-in render engine, this wonderful addition can create stunning lighting with photo real results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; though don&#8217;t expect anything &#8220;photo real&#8221; coming from me anytime too soon, I&#8217;m still working to get there.<\/p>\n<p>Blender&#8217;s Cycle render engine renders stuff on the fly, refining the render more and more, as time progresses. This is making it very simple for lighting setup.<\/p>\n<p>Cycles can also utilize a GPU for faster render speeds, though installation of CUDA is required (for NVIDIA graphics cards). This isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;m going to mess with yet&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 but double or tripling render speeds would be so so sweeeeeet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Who likes waiting? &#8211; I must confess that I was never a big fan of the rendering process. Clicking a button and then waiting minutes while an image (or portion of an image) appears, is&#8230; painful. Perhaps it was all the years working in I.T.. I calculated it ounce, based on a few projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,771],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blender","tag-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}