Blender Lab
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The Blender Lab is introduced, showcasing experimental projects and research areas for the popular open-source 3D creation software, sparking discussion on its potential, funding, and community involvement.
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edit: you might need to auth yourself as human to cloudflare on blender.org for the site to display correctly.
If they're going to block unauthed stylesheet requests, surely they could at least make sure that the CF authenticator shows up on every page.
Edit: If I'm honest, I find this specific css fairly innocuous. I have a more general grudge that raw HTML is easy, free and accessible but we collectively insisted that it's not OK to use it.
The font is bigger, the lines are shorter, the navigation doesn't take half the page. The only thing worse would be the contrast but it's not that bad.
I do not think that word means what you think it means
The objective improvements from css here include: shorter lines are easier to read (per multiple legibility studies), the styling distinguishes navigation and secondary site elements from the main content (without css you get a half screen of navigation links), and the visual importance of in-page anchor links is reduced.
I prefer having a quiet single color background and being able to dictate how wide is the text I am reading than being limited by the website owner's choice. But that is also maybe just me.
Is it because of a misconfiguration on blender's end that should allow css to passthrough without verification, the query param messing a cloudflare passthrough default, or something else?
Devs: please practice observing your site without css
Blender has seen more success than most open source art tools but it still seems to be relegated to individuals and small studios, while the ILMs of the world continue to be neck deep in commercial or bespoke tooling.
https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/
Here's an wonderful Blender extension, the Sculpt Wheel, that has concentric rings, and is deeply customizable (this video was posted 15 hours ago so it's fresh and current):
Blender 4.5 Sculpt Wheel - Glyph+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhO-aU512NE&t=1s