Blender 1

1. What is Blender?
Blender is a free and open source 3D modelling and animation suite.

2. How did Blender originate?
As an internal production tool for an award-winning Dutch animation company called NeoGeo.

3. When did NaN close?
In 2002.

4. How much did the 'Free Blender' campaign need to raise before releasing the source code of Blender from NaN to Blender foundation?
100 thousand euros.

5. What is a Blender window composed of?
Editors.

6. What is the most important editor?
The 3D View.

7. Where are headers found?
At either the top or bottom of editor.

8. What is a header composed of?
Menus and buttons.

9. What is the design philosophy of Blender?
To be non-blocking and non-modal.

10. What does non-blocking mean?
Different editors can not overlap.

11. What does non-modal mean?
An editor doesn't restrict you from using another editor.

12. Name a case when the non-blocking and non-modal philosophy is violated?
If you select Open from File menu, the File Browser editor is opened, over other editors.

13. Which editors are in Blender's Default scene?
Info, 3D View, Timeline,  Outline and Properties.

14. What are corner widgets?
These are the diagonal lines at lower-left and at the upper-right of an editor.

15. Why are corner widgets important?
You can drag the corner widgets to either split an area, or join two areas.

16. How can you maximize area for an editor?
By pressing Shift and Spacebar, or Toggle Full Screen from View menu in the header.