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Blender
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Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite.
It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing,
motion tracking and video editing.

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Project Pages
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- `Main Website <http://www.blender.org>`__
- `Reference Manual <https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/index.html>`__
- `Get Involved <https://www.blender.org/get-involved/developers>`__
- `Development & Issue Tracker <https://developer.blender.org>`__
- `Discussion Forum <https://devtalk.blender.org>`__


Development Notes and Build Instructions
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- `Developer Introduction <https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Developer_Intro>`__
- `Building Blender <https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender>`__


License
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Blender as a whole is licensed under the GNU Public License, Version 3.
Individual files may have a different, but compatible license.

See `blender.org/about/license <https://www.blender.org/about/license>`__ for details.