BlenderGIS Tutorial PART 3 - Fault plane construction 

You're very welcome!

Thank you, I like your feedback, it encourages to continue to illustrate the power of BlenderGis to illustrate ( geological ) ideas and observations and hopefully also its educational potential - it is indeed together with QGis a powerful open source and extremely reliable, stable program (never crashed).

​@@schwandermarcus8752 *edit* sorry for the long response, I got excited hahaha I live in the pacific NW of the U.S. and a paper just came out about the crustal structure of the continental arc (youngest tectonic system like this on earth! Only about ~50 million years old) that integrates gravity, pseudogravity, magnetism, field mapping and other methods to try to determine the structures underlying Puget Sound, Washington state in NW US. It is my goal this summer to use the methods you outline to make take the three large scale cross sections of the region presented in the paper, orient them spatially in blender, and then draw the 3d volumes as you have shown in your tutorials. Then maybe animate them with a short looping motion to indicate strike-slip vs thrust faults if I get that far. "it encourages to continue to illustrate the power of BlenderGis to illustrate ( geological ) ideas and observations and hopefully also its educational potential" Yeah I agree about the educational potential, I think what is exciting about this approach is the educational potential of 3d modeling software used to visualize geology is expressed in the broadest way possible when we center the ethics of open access. Making these kinds of 3d models and animations in blender means that fundamentally you are only ever one degree of separation away from not only uploading the finished animation you make, but the whole damn project file so that anybody else in the world can open it up and fly around inside your scientific visualization and poke and prod whatever they want. There is no "take my word for it" with blender, anyone can download blender and fire it up within 5 minutes and see what you see as the creator of the blender project. If you model a complex fault and folding structure, sure you can path a flythrough animation video through it and maybe people will be happy with just that one video for interfacing with the model you make, but heck why not also release the project file along with the video to encourage people to explore it themselves.... both as an excuse to learn blender and also learn about geology at the same time? Then the video is more than just a video, it is an invitation into a 3d geological map! I don't think the potential of that can be understated, and the only barrier in the way to getting to that future I see is the one you are gleefully hacking down with an axe with awesome videos like these. Keep em coming! People might not broadly understand the value of what you are doing yet, and the inherent kindness at the heart of specifically choosing to create such meticulous tutorials for a tool that is freely given out to all... but I hope you understand that what you are doing is extremely fucking great and one day you are going to be shocked at how many people start responding passionately to the vision and workflow you are presenting here if you continue to make videos like this. -link to paper- agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022TC007720 (it isn't open access :( not sure why I do have the paper tho)

Thank you. I like how you see the potential of the open source BlenderGis / QGIS and wish you all success with your 3D construction. BlenderGIS is not a blackbox and requires time and patience to master, but visualizing exciting 3D projects makes it worthwhile. I'm happy to help when you get stuck or looking for easier approaches. The flexibility and capabilities of BlenderGIS continue to amaze me and many handy tricks you will discovered while doing. Soon, I will release my structural model of the Swiss central Helvetic mountain belt, I was working on for 1 year and create a couple of videos. Using free software like QGIS and BlenderGIS is comparable and reliable to costly industry standards like ArcGIS and Move for geological 3D modeling. In absence of 3D/2D seismic these open-source GIS tools allow detailed construction and 3D visualization of complex mountain belt architecture. This suite is excellent for geologists to enhance their 3D analysis skills, discuss complex earth science issues with other disciplines, and present geotechnical solutions understandably to the public. I hope I can also motivate geophysicists with software skills to develop for BlenderGis geological add-ons for 3D constructions, krigging and balanced sections, and to automatically voxel’ise 3D bodies to extract random 2D geo-section. Look forward to see the results of your Puget Sound crustal visualisation.

Thank you, much appreciated.

Thank you Jailson and glad to hear that there is interest in using BlenderGis in combination with QGIS for geological work. Will do my best to issue tutorial 4 in the next two weeks.

@@schwandermarcus8752 Thank you Marcus, for your time. My model is almost there...