[Bf-committers] [GSOC17][Proposal] Jupyter Kernel addon for Blender

[Joshua Leung]

Hi Andrea,

Have you considered going down the "bpy_standalone" route then?  IIRC,
there's a CMake option to compile Blender for use as a Python module, and
then you could just call that from your Python projects. Or do you
specifically need to be able to interact with Blender while doing this?

Regards,
Joshua

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:35 PM, andij.cr at gmail.com <andij.cr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For this gsoc i'm going to submit a proposal about adding a jupyter kernel
> to connect blender.
> Right now my only non trivial example of jupyter kernel comes from cling,
> the interactive c++11/14/17 shell https://root.cern.ch/cling
> so i'm still exploring the infrastructure needed to make this work
> As i wrote in my previous message to this list:
>
> > I have a background in c++14 and improving my knowledge in python3, and i
> > wonder if a proposal about improving the python editor in blender is
> > something that has any chance of being accepted.
>
> > I got the idea while developing a small project where i needed to convert
> > an equirectangular texture to another format, using texture baking from a
> > lat-lon sphere to another solid, and finding that it was easier for me to
> > do this work by hand than to workout a script to automate the process.
>
> to which Andreas Klostermann replied
> > It may be possible to use Blender as a Jupyter "kernel". Using asyncio,
> it
> > may be possible to implement the jupyter protocol which in turn uses
> zeromq.
>
> Which is obviously a better solution for my use case than recreating some
> of the features of jupyter inside blender.
> So this i why i'm writing a new proposal, to gather feedback on this idea
>
> As this is a use case tailored to developers, i'm thinking that writing an
> addon is best suited than trying to include this in blender.
>
> what will i need?
> right now i know that i will need to understand blender addon architecture
> and jupyter kernel architecture,
> that i need to integrate zmq api in a portable way, as this is the pipe
> used to comunicate with jupyter,
> find the right ux pattern to make this addon useful and not an hassle to
> use bigger than the current way to use python inside blender.
>
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