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Organic yet accurate modeling with the golden spiral

Foreword First off, let me say that I am profoundly amazed at the orderliness in nature. If you haven't heard about the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...), you should check it out. This mathematical concept of the Fibonacci numbers…
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Scale Space Between Multiple Objects

If I have multiple objects selected can I use scaling to make the objects closer together (without rescaling the objects)?
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How to make all faces flip to the right/consistent direction?

What's happening is that I have tried to flip the normals, inside and out, but there are always faces which have to be flipped! Normals recalculated Inside View If I flip them again, all faces get flipped and end up horrible and, not working at…
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What is the best way to unwrap a sphere?

After reading How to get perfect UV sphere Mercator projection? It seems that there is no perfect solution for getting rid of the stretch at the poles of UV spheres. According to What is the difference between a UV Sphere and an Icosphere?,…
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Hiding all but the selected objects?

I was doing my best to follow this tutorial from the Blender Guru, but, alas, 8 minutes in I've run into a real spot, a few moments after this spot in the video. I can only hide the selected, not hide all BUT the selected. (Edits then effects ONLY…
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Can blender export 2D curves to svg?

Is it possible to convert/export 2D curves to an svg? I know you could render it to a raster image and then convert it with inkscape/potrace, but it would be nice if you could keep the splines the way they are in blender.
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Techniques for modeling a network of blood vessels

If you've ever seen anything like Body Worlds or the Bodies: The Exhibition you'll know how they dissect individual organ systems and put them on display with a technique known as plastination. For instance, plastic can be pumped through the…
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What is the simplest way to generate a dodecahedron?

I've been thinking of animating some dice and while most are easy to make, I'm having some trouble figuring out a way to generate a regular dodecahedron. I could hand build it but it would be potentially uneven. Would using the base of a 5 sided…
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How to save render?

Every time I render an image and try to save it, it just disappears. How do you exactly save a render? I am using a mac.
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Show mesh vertices ID

I am try to do something based on the ID of a vertices. I want blender to show me the vertices ID. How can I have blender show me the ID in the viewport? I do not see an option in the Mesh Display tab.
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Any Video formats that render with Alpha Channel?

Does anyone know if there are any video formats (besides the HUGE uncompressed avis) that you can render in that maintain the alpha channel? (i.e. for after FX etc.) I used to use quicktime, but that's no longer an option. I know you can render in…
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How to remove interior faces while keeping exterior faces untouched?

I built something Minecraft style model by cubes. Now I met a problem: when I'm trying to remove all interior faces, it appears that some exterior faces are influenced inevitably. I wonder if there is some better way to do it better. P.S.: There…
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How to make mesh lights work in Blender Eevee?

The closest I can get to making mesh lights affect their environment in Blender Eevee is giving them an Emission material and turning on "Bloom". But this isn't emitting proper light, it just looks like it is, but it doesn't light the surroundings…
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How Do You Use An Image As The World Background?

I'd like to use a background image for my world, but I'm not sure how to do it. Right now I am using the sun as a lightpoint and it looks like sky and a flat plane (not realistic). I was thinking of just using a mountain background image for the…
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Is it possible to work on two or more files at the same time (or open multiple Blender instances?)

I know Blender is pretty resource intensive on less mighty hardware, but supposing that I have the hardware to handle it, can I open two files in different Windows, or open different instances of Blender?
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