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Playing with a python webcrawler to create geometry in Blender.

1. C by Coen on 31 Oct 2021, edited 3 Nov 2021 # +9 votes

   On a rainy Sunday I entertained myself by going to Wikipedia to read about brick sizes:

   https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_baksteenformaten

   I had the idea to webcrawl these dimensions and create geometry in Blender.

   In the process I learned how to install third party modules for Blender and parse tables from Wikipedia with Python.

   So I decided to make a little tutorial to share the knowledge:

   This brick is created from table data from Wikipedia:

   

   The bricks are created by changing the no_index in the python script which correlates with the index from the Wikipedia table:

   

   

2. G by Gorgious on 3 Nov 2021 # +1 votes

   Hehe this is very clever ! Thanks for sharing

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