Blender & Astronomy (1-4): Understanding Blender Voxel Data

Welcome to the first tutorial o the series where we will understand how to the Blender software Voxel Data for visualization of astronomy datacubes. You can download all the material from my GitHub repository: https://github.com/matgarate/Blender_Bvoxer These tutorials and their content were developed with the help (both directly and indirectly) of all these people. Here I include the respective acknowledgements and also links to the websites that can be useful to learn more of scientific data visualization in blender. Useful Websites: Download Blender from: www.blender.org Learn Blender Basics: http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html To install python and numpy: http://www.scipy.org/install.html Download Fargo3D code: http://fargo.in2p3.fr/ Other scientists which have done scientific visualization using Blender are: Matthias Meschede : http://pythology.blogspot.com Dr. Brian Kent: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/blender/ Dr. Jill Naiman: http://www.astroblend.com/ Special thanks to: -Dr. Jorge Cuadra from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who developed the Stellar Winds simulations using Gadget-2 in Geryon*. -Dr. Sebastián Pérez from Universidad de Chile, who developed the Protoplanetary Disk simulation with Fargo3D in Belka**. -Dr. Pablo Benitez-Llambay (main developer of Fargo3D) Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, who collaborated in the development of the bvoxer_Fargo3D code. This project was developed with financial support from Millennium Nucleus RC130007 (Chilean Ministry of Economy), and the associated PME proyect: “MAD Community Cluster”. *The Geryon/Geryon2 cluster housed at the Centro de Astro-Ingeniería UC was used for (part) the calculations performed in this work. The BASAL PFB-06 CATA, Anillo ACT-86, FONDEQUIP AIC-57, and QUIMAL 130008 provided funding for several improvements to the Geryon/Geryon2 cluster. **These simulations were performed in the Belka GPU cluster by S. Perez at the Protoplanetary Disk Millennium Nucleus, commissioned thanks to a FONDEQUIP grant."