My new number one use for LLMs is, I kid you not, spell and grammar checking Somehow ChatGPT is much better at correcting my often typo ridden drafts than whatever MS Word is doing. Turns out if you ask it to make only the minimal required changes, it will abide.

Sitting in the SIGGRAPH Asia EC town hall. Meant to be about LGBTQ+ concerns Currently we are being given tourist info about Malaysia Starting to think that the whole EC is either incompetent or just doesn't care about the opinions of their constituents.

I am boycotting #SIGGRAPHAsia 2026 because it will be in Malaysia, where there are serious safety concerns for the LGBTQ+ members of our community, thereby excluding them. I will not attend, submit my work to, or perform any reviews for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. Yet, I'm excited about #SIGGRAPHAsia 2025!

Below is my response to being invited to serve on the technical papers committee at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 (in Malaysia) TLDR It's a no.

I think my ideal technical talk length on a single topic is 15 minutes. Enough time to get a good sketch of the method but not so much that my attention wanders. After that I really just need to sit with the paper to have any hope of understanding.

SIGGRAPH over Tired now Or Maybe hungry Off to go solve this mystery.

This was really fun. Thanks to all the speakers. Would do again, so hopefully SIGGRAPH keeps the workshop program around.

This morning 9am East Building Room 11

Happening tomorrow morning !

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 preemptively boycotted me … 0 for 4 on submissions this year. Well played universe !

I could not be more disappointed in the management of SIGGRAPH for this, the most spineless of PR blog posts. Count me as someone who will not have their name on any submission to SIGAsia 2026. If enough of us withhold the content they sorely need, maybe next time they will engage more earnestly.

After 6+ mos of discussion and an open letter with 600+ signatures, SIGGRAPH leadership finally responded with...a short blog post? It only obliquely *acknowledges* the issue and doesn't articulate concrete change. What are the "nuances and complexities"? Insulting. www.siggraph.org/news/listeni...

Getting ready to hop on my flight to Vancouver for SIGGRAPH If you see a guy with a weird pony tail yelling “Finite Element Method!”. It’s probably me Say “Hi”

Join us Tuesday night at #SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live show to see interactive painting with Gaussian splat brushes, awesome work (and technical paper) by Karran Pandey presented by him and our inspiring collaborators at the National Film Board of Canada!

Me,Peter Chen and Eitan Grinspun are hosting a SIGGRAPH workshop on reduced-order models. Great keynotes from Maurizio Chiaramonte (Meta), Jernej Barbic (USC) and Mengyu Chu (Peking University) plus a bunch of awesome lightning talks. Come check it out: roms.news

When you sign into Microsoft 360 this dystopian vision of the future is what greets you. Welcome to your office tools, AI is stalking you.

I am still having very mixed experiences with the TOG timelines. One paper sailed through in 4 months, another one has been under review for almost a year. Not great variance if you care about sharing fresh ideas with the community. Would love to understand ... is it just growing # of submissions?

Code is now out! Try it for yourself here: github.com/abhimadan/st...

I want to make fun of this but it’s eerily similar to how I actually dance

Update on all of this — we have been informed no reply from conference management yet Cmon ACM, don’t ghost us Have the courage to say you don’t care about the concerns of hundreds of community members in general and the LGBTQ+ community in particular.

I assiduously train my grad students no to trust authority out of hand. It is very annoying when they apply that to me.

I’m starting to get some real concerns about the knowledge base of reviewers for physics papers at SIGGRAPH It feels like a community failing … we haven’t done a good job of educating each other. Need to think about how to fix that

There are a great many days in research and academia which remind me that any good deed will be infinitely punished.

Holding SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 in Malaysia is a slap in the face to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Especially now, when underrepresented people need as much support as we can possibly give them ! Angry like me ? Sign this open letter to let them know. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At SIGGRAPH 2025, we’ll be presenting the paper “Stochastic Barnes-Hut Approximation for Fast Summation on the GPU”. By injecting a bit of randomization into the classic yet deterministic Barnes-Hut approximation for fast kernel summation, we can achieve nearly 10x speedups on the GPU!

My child’s doll and tools I captured as 3D Gaussians, turned digital with collisions and dynamics. We are getting closer to bridging the gap between the world we can touch and digital 3D. Experience the bleeding edge at #NVIDIA Kaolin hands-on lab, #CVPR2025! Wed, 8-noon. tinyurl.com/nv-kaolin-cv...

It’s just pancake batter and blue house paint #clonehigh

My workstation 10 days before the SigAsia deadline. Yes that is a hammer. Don’t worry I’m a professional

How does perspective work in art and photography? In a new paper, we describes experiments suggesting answers to age-old questions about how people perceive perspective. 1/ #VisionScience
#Art #ArtHistory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What did I do to Apples AI image playground to deserve this? Maybe wrecking self esteem is a feature

Post election celebratory lunch

Yo, Canadian friends, don’t forget to vote today

SGP 2025 is accepting poster submissions! More information here: sgp2025.my.canva.site/submit-page-...

Research papers with that crisp AI writing sheen are like if Anne Rice did a polish on my cars owners manual.

Haven’t posted in a while, been hiding under my bed waiting for the US invasion

Can I interest you in some fresh USDs ;)

I was interviewed recently by a science journalist from the American Physical Society, for a piece they put together about the use of physics simulation in cinematic visual effects. They included a couple of my quotes, and a couple simulations from graphics research papers that I've been […]

hey I made another video, this one is about the Texture Painting toolset in Gradientspace Toolbox. Shows how to use the Create Texture tool, walks through the TexturePaint tool settings panel, and you get to see me make a lot of mistakes - fun! youtu.be/i1m7uI7soAM

Poorly worded #SIGGRAPH author instructions. If you have negative scores (individual or average), 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗹! Negative scores are not a mark of death. Plenty misunderstandings get cleared up in the rebuttal; plenty initially low-score papers are ultimately accepted.

@uoftcompsci.bsky.social Since I’ve got you here, don’t you think it’s time you got off of X? Not sure if you know but the guy who benefits from it is not that great

At least there’s still the Oscar’s during the apocalypse

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Today at the university Co-worker: I just learned there’s a committee that does x. Did you know that? Me: no idea Co-worker: <checks phone> you’re on the committee !!! Me: but I’m not, like, the chair or anything right? Right ?

I really feel like some AI animation papers are gaslighting me Me: these results look quite odd Paper: They’re fine, actually they are state-of-the-art, better than anything you’ve ever seen Me: but in 2010 … Paper: shut up, you’re crazy, here’s a table of numbers

During the pandemic times I made this set of videos (youtube.com/playlist?lis...) for my physically-based animation course. They're getting a bit long in the tooth and I'm starting to think about what version 2 should look-like.

Fernando de Goes’ Stochastic Barycentric Coordinates paper was my favourite of SIGGRAPH 2024: graphics.pixar.com/library/Stoc... Really shows the power of old school numerical method (RKPM: link.springer.com/article/10.1... ) when fused with some new school flavour

Having a driveway was a bad life choice

Yeah it’s a real mystery … Narrator: “it was not, in fact, a mystery”

Yikes ! Going to have to clean it up a bit I guess 🙃

That asteroid here yet ?