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CubeSter

Jacob Morris

CubeSter is an add-on for Blender 3D that takes an image or audio file and converts it into a height-based mesh object. The mesh can either be composed of multiple cubes or of a single plane. The height of the mesh is based either upon the pixel intensity and alpha value at that point or the loudness of an audio frequency. By default the RGBA channels are each contribute 25% of the height, but they can be manually adjusted or set to random.

Image sequences can also be imported and used to animate the meshes' color and height over time.

CubeSter can cause Blender to go unresponsive for a period of time, so an approximate time to generate the mesh is listed in the panel. Also, generating a plane object is faster then generating a cube based object.