This chapter explains Blender’s persistent data model and related data structures. We first discuss a high-level description of the blend file. One of the most interesting aspects about the blend file is that it has been engineered to be very fast. Its contents are a binary image of memory, when the file was serialized. Blender supports backward compatibility, making the required transformations of the data structures in a given release to any later release. We will ...
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B. E. HollisterCore Blender Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6415-7_22. Blender “DNA” and Serialization
Brad E. Hollister1
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Computer Science Department, CSUDH, Carson, CA, USA
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