Tomcat-Blender/README.md

tomcat_blender

Scripts to automate TOMCAT data visualization in blender with python. TODO: build into python module with classes TODO: maybe wrap system call of blender TODO: add cupy/cucim support

required packages: xarray, scikit-image, trimesh, numpy

How to use

1. Extract series stl-files for desired time series with e.g. 01_extract_surfaces.py

2. Choose appropitate time step to set up scene and everything (e.g. cycles-render) in blender, do a test render, save the blend-file

3. Run the animation script from cammand line

   Windows

   <path_to_binary>blender.exe blend-file.blend --background --python animationscript.py
   

4. (optional) adjust frame and sampling rate, better option: create separate avi-files, merge and convert to mkv, e.g. combining ImageJ and ffmpeg