Here are five takeaways:
1. Blender is an open-source 3-D content-creating software product mainly used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3-D printed models, interactive 3-D applications and video games.
2. Here is the process:
- Surgeons take CT scans of the surgical site bones, as well as the corresponding healthy bones on the opposite side of the body.
- The CT scans are converted into 3-D mesh data and loaded into Blender.
- From within Blender, the mesh of the healthy bones are mirrored and serves as a template for showing the corrective action that needs to be performed on the bones that require surgery.
- The mesh can even be used to build precise 3-D models of guides for aiding the surgical process.
- Those models get 3-D printed and used during the actual surgery.
3. The Blender Conference is an annual event held in Amsterdam for developers, designers and enthusiasts to learn more about Blender techniques, features and tools.
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