Blender 4.1 goes into detail

The Blender release cycle consists of three new versions of the software per year. The first release is usually characterised by new features. The reason for this is that the third and final release is a Long Term Support (LTS) version, which is supplied with bug fixes for another two years.

The developers are naturally more hesitant when it comes to adding new features and are happy to postpone them until the next cycle. With a medium release, which includes the current version 4.1, clean-up work and improvements usually take place. This is the case again this time. Many of the new features that were introduced in Blender 4.0 have now been polished again. The cover graphic of the last edition with the Kuwahara Node alienated. The filter size is smaller the closer the elements are to the viewer. This makes it easy to recognise the hoses inside, while the sculpture becomes increasingly blurred in depth. Kuwahara filter controllable One example of this is the Kuwahara filter in the Compositor, which was introduced in Blender 4.0 and can be used to give images an oil painting look. This can now optionally be executed with higher precision, which should achieve a better result for images with HDR dynamic range and at particularly high resolutions with a slightly longer executi...


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