Downloading Blender

As we all know, a blender is an electric kitchen appliance used to blend vegetables and fruits into drinks, sauces, or pastries. But in this tutorial, we will be using another Blender, which is an open source 3D computer graphics software developed and maintained by the Blender Foundation.

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You can download Blender for free, at http://www.blender.org/download.

Currently, three platforms are officially supported: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Due to Blender's open source nature, it can be easily ported to other operating systems as well.

A brief history of Blender

Blender was originally proprietary software developed in the mid 90's by Ton Roosendaal for his animation company. Unfortunately, the company was shut down by investors in early 2002, resulting in Ton losing the ownership of Blender.

Later that year, Ton founded a non-profit organization called the Blender Foundation and successfully raised a total of 100,000 EUR in only seven weeks to convince the former company...