Create impactful scientific visualisations on your laptop*! (* also requires access to HPC)

BlenderRemoteRender (Brr) is a client-server tool for working with Blender in a research context. Blender is a free and very powerful 3D design and rendering toolkit. Although it is used more and more by the research community for producing high quality scientific visualisation, its primarily target is 3D artists. One of the key workflow differences being that researchers may not have access powerful rendering hardware locally, but can access HPC resources like ARCHER2. Brr allows researchers to work on their scenes and visualisations locally on a light client while seamlessly connecting to an HPC and submitting slurm jobs to render images and animations. In practice, Brr is composed of a Blender addon on the client side and a Zero MQ server both implemented in python. The server is tasked with receiving configuration and data files from the client and submitting slurm (or other scheduler) jobs.