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Submission + - Blender 'Peach' presale hits 1000 mark (blender.org)

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LetterRip

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @05:01AM

LetterRip writes: "The Blender Foundation reached its goal of 1000 Project Peach 'Furry and Funny' DVD presales. The cool bit is that all preorders paid for before October 1st get to be listed in the movie credits."

Submission + - Blender Open Movie 2 and an Open Game announced (blender.org)

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LetterRip

on Monday June 11, 2007 @01:08AM

LetterRip writes: "The Blender Foundation has announced 'Peach' a second open movie project, their first open movie project was 'Project Orange' that resulted in Elephants Dream. Peach is planned to be a funny movie in contrast to the dark and surreal nature of Elephants Dream. A second exciting announcement is that in cooperation with Crystal Space and NLGD Conference ( the "Nederlandse Game Dagen" the annual conference for the Netherlands game industry) an open game (Project Apricot) will be developed. Lastly the Blender Foundation announced the establishment of the Blender Institute that will be a studio dedicated to hosting these and future projects. Also the Blender Foundation has put out a new manual 'Essential Blender' to make it easier to learn Blender. For those unfamiliar with Blender it is a free 3d animation suite."

Submission + - GMail spam filter has huge false positive

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LetterRip

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @12:48PM

LetterRip writes: "I love GMail, but I just went through my spam inbox and found 8 false positives most from correspondents from India, that is a false positive rate of 1% of the stuff flagged as spam, and a much larger percentage of my emails not flagged as spam for the same time period. According to a search this is better than yahoos and hotmails false positive rate which are confirmed by my personal experience. Unfortunately they are far worse than a number of open source filters such as spamassassin. So slashdot — what do you do to battle your false positives of spam for google? Is there an easy way to retrieve all messages that end in your spam box so that a superior filter can be used to correct the errors?"

Submission + - A new Blender release

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LetterRip

on Monday May 14, 2007 @01:48AM

LetterRip writes: "A recent Ask Slashdot asked why the free 3D animation suiteBlender was so popular — the reason? It kicks ass :) Here is another great release fresh out of the compiler. One of the major new features this release is subsurface scattering that gives a beautiful soft appearance to skin and other materials. Also some nice sculpting tweaks and improvements, a number of animation feature enhancements, and much more."

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released - with Google SOC tools

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LetterRip

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:08PM

LetterRip writes: "Blender 2.43 the free 3d animation suite has been released. There are a number of amazing new features including sculpting (which was supported by Googles Summer of Code) — you can now sculpt huge poly counts (6.5 million!) on Linux; fast 3D texture painting and numerous animation tool improvements."

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