Fauxton is a software library designed to leverage computer graphics technology for computer vision applications. It provides simple interfaces to the Blender animation system and the Open Shading Language. Fauxton supports reading and writing Blender scenes, photorealistic rendering, and precise, automated annotation. It also provides a mechanism for serializing instances of user-defined resource types via Blender's native format.
Fauxton depends on Blender 2.71+ and NumPy. OpenCV is also recommended, but not necessary: if it is available, Fauxton will use it to accelerate reading HDR images generated by Blender. To install these dependencies on Ubuntu or Debian Linux:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:irie/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender python-numpy python-opencv
To install them on OS X, manually install Blender, making sure to move blender.app into /Applications. The rest of the dependencies can be installed with Homebrew:
brew tap homebrew/science
brew install numpy
brew install opencv
Fauxton itself can be installed from the Python package index:
pip install fauxton
Examples and API documentation can be accessed by opening documentation/html/index.html.