Tutorials for the Flatiron Institute 2021 Sciware talks
Dr. Brian R. Kent, Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @VizAstro
https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/blender
https://github.com/brkent/flatiron-sciware-blender-2021
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeWVL90IWfo
Sciware website: http://sciware.flatironinstitute.org/
Blender interface intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3qtedwbSI
BlenderGuru intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4&list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U
Open Shading Language (OSL): https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage
Blender OSL documentation: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/osl.html
OSL Tutorial: https://thhube.github.io/tutorials/osl/osl.html
OpenVDB (not using this today, but is supported by Blender): https://www.openvdb.org/
Great AstroPy tutorial on working with FITS cubes: https://learn.astropy.org/rst-tutorials/FITS-cubes.html
My YouTube channel - videos and tutorials:https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualizeAstronomy/videos
3D Scientific Visualization with Blender: https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6270-5612-0
Visualization in Astronomy: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1538-3873/page/Techniques-and-Methods-for-Astrophysical-Data-Visualization
Extragalactic Distance Database: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AJ....138..323T/abstract
CT Scan data: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/voldata/
360 Video and Spherical Panoramas: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PASP..129e8004K/abstract
Neutral Hydrogen data cubes: https://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/THINGS/Data.html
https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html#general-principles-for-using-color-in-plots
See references at the bottom of this page: https://medium.com/hipster-color-science/a-beginners-guide-to-colorimetry-401f1830b65a
Talk by Dr. Michael Waters: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7s9seplrnw3ea7p/Practical_Colorimetry_for_Scientific_Visualization_-_Michael_J_Waters_-_2021_3_14.pdf