Welcome to TraitBlender!

Synthetic Museum-Image Datasets for Computer Vision and Evolutionary Morphology

Museum-style shell specimen imaging with TraitBlender

About TraitBlender¶

TraitBlender is a powerful Blender add-on designed for researchers and institutions working with morphological datasets. It enables the generation of high-quality, standardized images for scientific analysis and museum documentation.

Current release: v2.1.0 (Blender 5.1+). v2.0.0 remains available for Blender 4.3–5.0. See the installation guide for details.

Contact & Support¶

Maintainer

Caleb Charpentier

GitHub: calcharp
Website: calebcharpentier.com
Email: calebcharpentier00@gmail.com

Citation¶

If you use TraitBlender in your research, please cite my work:

BibTeX Citation

    @software{charpentier_2026_19140353,
      author       = {Charpentier, Caleb and
                      Linscott, T. Mason and
                      Bradley, John and
                      Campolongo, Elizabeth and
                      Thompson, Matthew and
                      Uyeda, Josef C},
      title        = {TraitBlender},
      month        = mar,
      year         = 2026,
      publisher    = {Zenodo},
      version      = {v2.1.0},
      doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14804133},
      url          = {https://github.com/Imageomics/TraitBlender},
    }

License¶

TraitBlender is released under the MIT License.