Valentina Pattern Example

Fashion Design Freedom – Valentina

While freedom in digital graphic design is a primary topic at Libre Graphics Meeting, applications outside the digital world are also fascinating to see! So there will be an opportunity to hear about (and hack with) the fashion pattern design tool Valentina this year. Susan Spencer Conklin first brought up the topic of free software…

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Magic Lantern – Free Your Camera

One of the projects which will have its first appearance at LibreGraphicsMeeting this year, is Magic Lantern. Magic Lantern is a free software add-on for most newer Canon EOS cameras. It allows you to get the most out of your camera and it adds many extra features that are not included from the factory by…

ColorHug+ Prototype

Building an OpenHardware Spectrograph for Color Profiling in Linux

At the 2012 Libre Graphics Meeting in Vienna, Richard Hughes presented a progress report on the ColorHug, his open hardware colorimeter. For over 2200 Linux users (and counting!), the Open Hardware ColorHug colorimeter has been an inexpensive way to calibrate monitors. Richard returns to LGM this year to talk about his newest project, a progression…

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Blender and the Manikin

Libre Graphics Meeting tries to bring in talks or presentations from the local community each year, and there is a fantastic presentation this year of the work done by Sebastian König recreating a 500 year old manikin with Blender for the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig. As detailed in the original post on Blendernation, the…