Blender is such an incredible piece of software. It’s a great example to show people what open source can be.

I have a company where I design custom jewelry with my customers fingerprints (https://lulimjewelry.com) and I use blender on the backend to automate it.

NYTimes maintains a blender docker container and I run it on google cloud run to take displacement maps and use them to “engrave” my jewelry and output an STL file. The displacement maps are generated client side using fabric.js

It’s awesome that blender can be run headless in a docker container. I’ve also been looking forward to these new blender apps. It seems like you can specify a paired down interface for blender so you could have it purpose built for a single task.