Is there a slide deck software for Linux that supports embedding video such that - on slide display, the first video frame shows - on cue, the video begins (without flashing to black first)? I grudgingly keep a separate Windows partition just for PowerPoint because I haven’t found this.

SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good. arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835 1/

Intersectional Feminist STS postdoc at Yale - please circulate! postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

I like github.com/brettcs/dtrx for this purpose

Announcing SGI 2026! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu

Getting back into crossword constructing with a belated Hanukkah puzzle: crosshare.org/crosswords/Q...

In exciting aviation news, Garmin’s autoland was successfully deployed for the first time after the pilot of a B200 King Air was incapacited in the air! www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

Happy Hanukkah!

Writing code on a bumpy train and tried stabilizing the display image to my head -- it does (surprisingly) make things a bit easier to read but overall feels too weird to actually use.

When I was young, I started reading programming books before I was familiar with the English prefix “pseudo-“, so I kept seeing algorithms “in pseudocode” and thought “wow, I should learn that language instead, it seems so easy”

I spent a few minutes trying to parse this NYC parking sign yesterday -- the best I can figure is that non-commercial parking is only allowed in January?

I won’t be at SIGGRAPH this year, but if you are, make sure to check out my colleagues’ amazing work! 4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a 3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25

Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...

🥻Our new #SIGGRAPH2025 paper introduces a novel pipeline that captures and digitizes physical threads, predicts fabric appearance from the weaving pattern, and aids designers in exploring new possibilities. 🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html

People still seem to trust LLMs without considering the potential for overt manipulation or bias, and I think we’re also nearing the end of a brief period where chatbot makers assumed that prompts would be hidden: future manipulation will likely come in ways that are harder to directly observe. 1/2

Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs? Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research" with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein

brb trying to convince every graphics paper author to use the same taxonomy for implicit functions

Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering!

After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics

I’ll be giving a talk at the New England Symposium on Graphics at MIT this year!

First attempt at SMT soldering (chip is 4x7mm). Came out “far from good but good from far” - I’m happy with it.

It's worth noting the Times' removal (left) of the victim's gender from the headline, I think. Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case.

Whenever I see this notification I get briefly excited that maybe Google found a new paper of mine that I didn’t know about.

Announcing SGI 2025! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu

A cool-looking visualization I thought I'd share :)

The comments made in the keynote were, I think pretty clearly, explicitly anti-Chinese. The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism.

I won’t be at SIGGRAPH Asia this year, but if you will, make sure to check out my colleagues’ and advisor’s excellent paper: www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao... It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.

One thing I appreciate about removable (e.g. m.2) storage on laptops (and that annoys me about the industry shift to soldered storage) is seamless migration between devices. I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great.

I recently made a browser custom style to color-code my various Google accounts, and I find it very useful.

I've been trying out dlang for research code instead of C++ lately, and it's been really nice -- faster compilation, built-in loop parallelization (like OpenMP), running arbitrary code at compile time.