My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Posting an older article on "Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering", using tomorrow's #thisisigad Graphics Guild lecture as an excuse: jacco.ompf2.com/2019/12/11/p... There is also a part 2.

A modernized Utah Teapot model with interior! You can see/customize/download it, along with historical versions on the official teapot page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/

New blog post on how to render beautiful soft shadows projected by the user's finger with Jetpack Compose. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f...

So Apple put out an article this week about how they are now 3D printing titanium parts in large volumes for Apple Watches and iPhone Air; this is a bit of a surprise and really cool! (1/3) www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI, www.replicabilitystamp.org), a community-driven initiative to promote replicability in Graphics research, is seeking volunteers. More details in the 'Volunteering' section of the home page.

There's a new and very neat-looking SIGGRAPH Asia paper on constructing the swept volume based on the path of a moving (possibly deforming) object. Check it out! https://jurwen.github.io/Swept-Volume-Page/

Here's a great video explaining/showing why the common CG practice of plugging smudge/fingerprints/dirt/whatever maps into roughness is wrong and why it should be done using material layering instead. This video is really well-made! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...

apparently there are also native sdf nodes in blender 5 now

i wrote an efficient convolution reverb for dreams while at mm years ago, and found myself in need of one again. my memory was hazy on the details, and i couldnt find it written out in a simple way i could immediately understand, so i chewed a pencil and reminded myself. heres how i think about it

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome! zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

Graphite's interactive "CosmoViewer". Explore your cosmologic simulations interactively !

Couple pieces about this work - about the sphere packing, using voxel "dart throwing" on the GPU: jbaker.graphics/writings/sph... about the reuse of the data structure from the sphere packing, reinterpreting it as a grid-based raytracing acceleration structure: jbaker.graphics/writings/dda...

Super proud to have been part of this work led by Sam Bourgault and Alejandro Aponte @ expressive computation lab With WORM, we propose a new way to program cobot manufacturing actions through skilled manipulation and procedural repetitions Checkout the paper and demo at #UIST2025

Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams, Final version available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is #geogram's Constrained Delaunay Triangulation robust ? ... on the testbench ! github.com/BrunoLevy/ge...

RING meeting in Nancy, Cyprien Plateau--Holleville presented presented his awesome work on exact integration of the differential quantities involved in Partial Optimal Transport. And that's not all: It comes with a combined physsim - Optimal Transport - rendering on the GPU !

Our article "Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams" (with Nicolas Ray, Quentin Merigot and Hugo Leclerc) just got accepted by Journal of Computational Physics. Pushing the limits of Optimal Transport by several orders of magnitude !

Detecting reads from uninitialised heap memory in C++ programs at runtime www.forwardscattering.org/post/71

New short post: "Thinking about convolutions for graphics" aschrein.github.io/jekyll/updat...

Anyone here have experience PyPI packaging of custom nanobind bindings for CUDA code specifically? I'm fairly good at pybind/nanobind for standard C++ stuff, but I don't even know where to start for GPU code, especially one that links to Nvidia's proprietary libraries. pls halp 🙏🙏🙏

🚀The code for Lipschitz Pruning is now online thanks to @wbrbr.bsky.social🚀 🔗 github.com/wbrbr/Lipsch... It's a simple Vulkan app useful for experiments. Also, the monument done by @elie-michel.bsky.social is released under a CC-BY license📄 (poke @mattkeeter.com I remember you asked!)

"By systematically contaminating inputs with NaN and observing which outputs become NaN, the method reconstructs conservative sparsity patterns that eliminate a major source of false negatives." absolutely incredible, and also someone needs to stop these people arxiv.org/abs/2507.23186

Playing with CSG engine, stress test, example_024 from OpenSCAD testsuite, but level 5 (instead of level 3 by default). Constrained Delaunay Triangulation goes brrr.

Presenting this paper tomorrow morning at 9:30am, during the Lightning Fast Geometry session⚡ Come check it out if you can!

Differentiable rendering has transformed graphics and 3D vision, but what about other fields? Our SIGGRAPH 2025 introduces misuka, the first fully-differentiable path tracer for acoustics.

At 3:45 PM tomorrow at SIGGRAPH, Lea Reichardt and Marco Manzi will present our part of the "Path Guiding in Production" course. Lea and Marco will talk about how we've been bridging cutting edge research into production in Disney's Hyperion Renderer. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

I will be presenting the paper "Lipschitz Pruning: Hierarchical Simplification of Primitive-Based SDFs" at SIGGRAPH 2025 during the Best of Eurographics session! Come to my talk on Wednesday morning wbrbr.org/publications...

📜 New SIGGRAPH 2025 paper 🎉 ❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial! 💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.

I wrote this article explaining algorithms for physarum-style simulations bleuje.com/physarum-exp...

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DOBB-BVH: Efficient Ray Traversal by Transforming Wide BVHs into Oriented Bounding Box Trees using Discreet Rotation (AMD) gpuopen.com/download/dob... youtu.be/E3wEtcUi3mI?...

At SIGGRAPH 2025, Intel, Disney, & Chaos are doing a course on the nitty gritty details of implementing path guiding methods in 3 production renderers: Cycles, Hyperion, and Corona. I helped write the course notes: 80 pages of great stuff! Coming soon. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Do you like voxels and implicits' representations and wish you could animate them in real-time? Now you can! Check out our article: "Real-time rendering of animated meshless representations" to know how: hal.science/hal-05095359 Shout out to @pacomeluton.bsky.social for this fantastic work!

I am glad to attend #HPG2025 where I just presented our paper "Fused Collapsing for Wide BVH Construction", co-authored with Mathias Paulin. We propose a fast build algorithm for wide BVHs that directly computes a wide hierarchy without additional collapsing pass. Webpage: wbrbr.org/publications...

Check it out! I'm proud to unveil CellWalk 2 for Apple Vision Pro. Bring beautiful and immersive biology learning into your space. @cellwalk.bsky.social 🧬🦠🍎 #science #applevisionpro #visionos #apple #wwdc25

Our #SGP25 work studies a simple and effective way to uniformly sample implicit surfaces by casting rays. (1/9) “Uniform Sampling of Surfaces by Casting Rays” w/ @abhishekmadan.bsky.social @nmwsharp.bsky.social and Alec Jacobson

I couldn't wait for the code ;p. I tested Selena Ling’s latest work on uniform surface sampling. Real-time demo on Shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/WfcXWB

Rendering nerds! Check out our latest work "Vector-Valued Monte Carlo Integration Using Ratio Control Variates" that has just gotten the best paper award at SIGGRAPH 2025. This paper presents a method that reduces variance of a wide range of rendering and diff. rendering tasks with negligible cost.

Halvorsen attractor in Sponza. #metalrt #rendering

Editing appearance, geometry, lighting with precision is easy with a 3D scene representation. But it's so much more difficult with just an image or photograph. Enter IntrinsicEdit: Precise generative image manipulation in intrinsic space (SIGGRAPH 2025)! intrinsic-edit.github.io

Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here: www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06... tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)

Salut à toi ! Si tu es étudiant en biologie... j'ai remarqué pendant mes enseignements que certain.e.s ont pas mal de soucis avec la loi de Beer-Lambert. Alors du coup j'ai fait un billet là-dessus destiné auxdits étudiant.e.s. Examens approchant... duxpacis-biologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/ques...

Now available: A blog post on (S)BVH optimization. The article describes how to improve beyond SBVH quality, often significantly. Results are compared to full-sweep, binned SAH and the H-PLOC. In short: Off-line BVH construction can double ray tracing performance. jacco.ompf2.com/2025/05/20/b...

New publication out! doi.org/10.1093/bioi... VTX is open source and freely accessible for non commercial use! github.com/VTX-Molecula... Builds available at vtx.drugdesign.fr

new blog post: "Gradients are the new intervals" www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2025-05... If you've got Lipschitz-continuous distance fields, you can use single-point samples to do tricks that normally require interval arithmetic – like hierarchical evaluation and expression simplification!

1/3 #compchem Preprint: "Pushing the Accuracy Limit of Foundation Neural Network Models with Quantum Monte Carlo Forces & Path Integrals" 💫: arxiv.org/abs/2504.07948 An end-to-end multi-level exascale strategy to produce highly accurate quantum chemistry datasets (energies & forces): DFT/QMC/sCI.

I am proud to announce our Eurographics 2025 paper "Lipschitz Pruning: Hierarchical Simplification of Primitive-Based SDFs"! With Mathieu Sanchez (joint first author), @axelparis.bluesky.social, @elie-michel.bsky.social, Thibaud Lambert, @tamyboubekeur.bsky.social, Mathias Paulin and Théo Thonat.

A thread on our new, also awesome, Siggraph paper "Linear-Time Transport with Rectified Flows", by K. Do, @dcoeurjo.bsky.social, P. Memari and me. Paper here: perso.liris.cnrs.fr/nicolas.bonn... Results in video: youtu.be/EcfKnSe6mhk

I recently started tinkering with mesh shaders in my toy engine to get a feel for what is involved in adding support for them and potential performance improvement opportunities and wrote a blog post detailing my findings. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/m...