Articles, tips and tricks about programming Python applications. Monday, 5 February 2018. A small HTTP server in Python. Can be run from the commandline with. To provide a simple http server that listens on a configurable port and basically serves any file from the directory it is started from. It must server a limited set of files.

Customizing Blender with Python and OSL. Fast Voronoi F2F1 in Blender Cycles on GPU and CPU. All of this can be overcome by using Open Shading Language. But the Cycles OSL implementation is limited to the CPU and cannot benefit from a much faster GPU.

Customizing Blender with Python and OSL. When implementing add-ons that contain very time consuming activities, profiling can be a tremendous help in pinpointing the hotspots in your code. And if you use Numpy a lot, where a lot of hard work is hidden in a few lines of code, a line profiler is a godsend. I used it for instance in researching bottlenecks in some tree related code. Now the excellent kernprof package.