Model Creation with Blender

J. Czech, M. Dittrich, and J. R. Stiles (2009). Rapid Creation, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Visualization of Realistic 3D Models. In Systems Biology: Methods in Molecular Biology, ed. Maly, Ivan V. Humana Press, Clifton, NJ, pp. 237-287.

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Updates to this chapter

The book chapter was written with Blender 2.45. Updated instructions (shown below) are available for Blender 2.49. These instructions have not yet been updated for Blender 2.50 and above.

• Updates to the model construction steps using Blender v. 2.49

Blender v. 2.45 downloads

• Intel OS X 10.3+ version compiled against python 2.5
• 32-bit linux version compiled against python 2.5
• 64-bit linux version compiled against python 2.5

Blender Project Files

• ChapterBlendFiles.tgz