Come to our Birds of a Feather if you are excited about working with (and not against) artists!

Next week at #SIGGRAPH2026, we'll present "Fast Sparse Matrix Permutation for Mesh-Based Direct Solvers," with Behrooz Zarebavani, Ana Dodik, Changcheng Yuan, Serban Porumbescu, John Owens, Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Wed., July 22, 3:55 PM, Room 403-B (1/6)

Next week at #SIGGRAPH 2026, we'll present "Locality-Aware Automatic Differentiation on the GPU for Mesh-Based Computations," with Rahul Goel, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Mon., July 20, 2:50 PM, Room 403-B Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... More below (1/7):

"Attention is just XYZ". Attention is actually a Rorschach test for researchers.

There's no way this VAR thing is accurate enough to catch someone being offside with their knee, right? Almost certain there are no body pose estimators that precise in such uncontrolled conditions. Why aren't they integrating uncertainty in the estimates?

If you're at FAccT, I would love to grab a coffee with you! Just shoot me a message.

Arrived to beautiful Saint Malo for the Curves and Surfaces conference! Let me know if you wanna chat about curves OR surfaces. Or heck, even volumes, why not, let's get nutty with it!

We are excited to announce the 2026 cohort of Rising Stars in Computer Graphics 🌟 These 9 young researchers will participate in a workshop at Siggraph 2026, about the wide range of career trajectories in graphics. Thank you to all applicants and to our selection committee for all the hard work.

"Coding Models Are Doing Too Much" nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal...

Wish there was a way to donate the SIGGRAPH conference registration discount to help bring in more folks from underrepresented communities if none of the authors can make use of it. I have two that are about to go to waste :(

Been playing around with vibe coding for a few days and it really takes away any joy building software had. It's awe inspiring how quickly it can get something going, but after that point it's just a slog. Feeling depressed about the whole enterprise and the world broadly after the experience.

Puzzled by the trend in the humanities of picking and hyper fixating on one mathematical component of Gen AI and reading into it like tea leaves. In an attempt to demystify models, they mystify themselves with the math. Mathstification, if you will.

I hope we'll all wake up from this fever dream one day soon.

This DLSS stuff is what you get when you view art as a metric to optimize, when you reify the most human of endeavors into a force of nature to be studied, to be dominated. You cannot fix another person's art because art isn't a number in a table to improve upon.

Chugging water at the airport water fountain to help eliminate waste from as many plastic bottles as I can.

EGSR 2026's call for papers is out: egsr2026.inria.fr/call-for-pap...

In the era of AI generated review slop, you really learn to appreciate the hand crafted artisanal low-effort reviews.

Ray Tracing using HIP arxiv.org/abs/2603.00292

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming! BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026! Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026 Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026 Website: sca.graphics Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions... Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

One of our dogs starts barking like crazy if someone knocks on anything and I've realized I have developed a stress response any time I hear a knock now, even when she's not around. I think my dog inverse Pavloved me.

Proud for my latent nearest neighbor to be @diwlevin.bsky.social.

Smart use of AI !

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

newspaper covers were the original clickbait

Catch me talking about Meschers at the NeurIPS @neur_reps workshop! anadodik.github.io/publication/meschers

Tired of senior folks dragging people's posters on socials. Has contentification cooked our sociality so much? Consider alternatives: 1. In-person feedback. 2. Broadly construed feedback. 3. Make resources. 4. Post positive examples. 5. Censor the name. 6. Laugh about it in a groupchat if you must.

🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy. Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.

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Ah... irrational spirals, diffuse and specular reflections and saturated colors. Happy Monte Carlo season to those who celebrate.

🛫 OMW to NeurIPS! ☕ Let me know if you want to grab coffee! 📐 Exited to see what everyone in geometry, PINNs, or algo fairness has been up to!

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

🎄 Introducing our paper A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination lnkd.in/gQUMSAyV . 🙈 Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.

I may disagree with Sally Korbluth on many (most?) things, but credit where credit is due.

"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

Finally replied to one of these LLM generated undergrad emails saying they really liked my work on topic XYZ (I have never heard of this stuff let alone worked on it), and asked "What is topic XYZ? :)" I got back an LLM generated output explaining topic XYZ. Chat are we cooked?

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!

Looking to talk to experts studying technology and race for 5 min today for a quick quote for something I'm working on. If this is you or if you know anyone who would be down, please reply or DM me! Hoping to chat ASAP.

Need for Speed Underground 2 website in 2004 #WebDesignHistory

Back when I was in undergrad, my mentor @hepcatjk.bsky.social used to talk about how one day someone was going to make the leap from pure particle based geometric optics to wave optics for graphics. That day has arrived.

what are we doing here people?

If you need to segment sketches into objects, Mia Tang has the tool for you. Enables re-composing the sketch after drawing. She presented her work on InkLayer at SIGGRAPH 2025. Code, data and paper are here: inklayer.github.io w/ @yaelvinker.bsky.social Chuan Yan, Lvmin Zhang

alternatively, replying to emails

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 🙏🙏🙏

"Impractical in production" is my middle name ;)

My old rendering paper made it into the history of path guiding at the SIGGRAPH course! 😍

Ok but seriously now, why is SIGGRAPH North America never in Mexico? Seems like a fantastic option.

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects anadodik.github.io/publication/...

The Meschers talk is tomorrow! "Shapes, Surfaces & Forms" 3:45 – 5:35 PM West Building, Rooms 220-222!

Methods like NeRF and Gaussian Splats model the world as radioactive fog, rendered using alpha blending. This produces great results.. but are volumes the only way to get there?🤔 Our new SIGGRAPH'25 paper directly reconstructs surfaces without heuristics or regularizers.

Meschers got picked up by Gizmodo! gizmodo.com/meet-mescher... Thanks to @gayoung.bsky.social for the story!