cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/novelt... I gave an internal talk at UCSD last year regarding "novelty" in computer science research. In it I "debunked" some of the myth people seem to have about what is good research in computer science these days. People seemed to like it, so I thought I should share.

Je vous conseille l'intervention (à partir de 1h03) du directeur de l'école Méliès, ça parle de comment les écoles d'animation peuvent contrer la destruction de savoirs faire liés à IA générative en revenant aux bases de l'anatomie, du mouvement et de la composition d'image - sans logiciels.

Some procedural shapes I made in Unity and Desmos while writing my book "Shaders & Procedural Shapes." Should I add more? The link in case you're interested ✨ jettelly.com/store/visual... #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d

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".

Modeling faceted geometry as a 4D point process on a multiscale implicit grid enables real-time glint rendering for standard NDFs, with IS, anisotropy, and colored particles. Memory-free, in a standalone fragment shader. Our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: research.adobe.com/publication/....

Super happy and honored to share that our paper "BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time" won a *Best paper award* at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025! If you are here, come see my presentation about this work Wednesday afternoon! Many thanks to the award committee!

It's roughly 4 years since I started to work on the 3D sparse fluid solver for what will ultimately become EmberGen 2.0. A quick look at the current performance state of the solver. A previous retrospective thread from a couple years ago on that other place: x.com/vassvik/stat...

New project: ImAnim "Animation Engine for Dear ImGui" by @soufianekhiat.bsky.social - Repo github.com/soufianekhia... - Post github.com/ocornut/imgu...

Two years of working on Blender Video Sequence Editor: aras-p.info/blog/2025/11... So far so good, let's continue! #blender #vse

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.

La recherche basée sur la discussion méthodique appuyée sur les faits et le raisonnement, ne peut pas exercer sa mission d'intérêt général si elle est soumise à la validation politique a priori. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran... Les libertés publiques sont notre affaire à toutes et tous.

Pendant 20 ans, on m’a dit que pirater les œuvres des artistes c’était le mal absolu et que ça allait détruire la culture, et maintenant on me dit que oh bon, les IA génératives, qu’est-ce qu’on y peut, hein, les gens vont s’en servir de toutes façons.

Présentement dans un train où deux mecs discutent doctement du fait que dans 4 ans plein d'emplois vont disparaître à cause de l'IA et qu'ils utilisent chatGPT pour lire des histoires à leurs enfants 🤪

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

New blog post about the development of Radical Pie: terathon.com/blog/radical...

Oooh, new glints paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025: perso.telecom-paristech.fr/boubek/paper...

Working my way through @edzitron.com 's article about the AI bubble. It's fantastic. I do kinda know all this stuff peripherally, but to see it all laid out very clearly with hard numbers is incredibly useful. Thanks Ed! www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/

Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable… In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports Putain de parasites de merde. J'en ai marre, c'est pas à toi de devoir te retirer de leur merde, c'est à eux d'avoir les droits putain. www.reuters.com/technology/o...

Les 1,8 millions de signatures de la pétition de Philippe de Villiers contre l'immigration sont complètement bidons, et je peux le prouver. Mais il y a plus intéressant, ce qu'il y a derrière, à savoir une opération de l'empire Bolloré. Un thread 🧵⤵️ https://t.co/hHF2dUqi8Z

Eh ben celle-là, en termes de tartufferie, elle vient de faire péter le plafond de la Sixtine.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

En 1970, tous les banquiers d'Irlande ont fait grève. Ils pensaient que ça mettrait le pays à genoux. Raté. Après 6 mois, tout allait toujours bien, le PIB a même augmenté. Par contre quand les éboueurs de New York ont fait grève 10 jours, il a fallu déclarer l'urgence sanitaire.

Ce week-end, j'ai pas mal donné mes tripes :/ Les papiers qui en sont sortis n'étaient pas les mieux, mais j'ai essayé de coucher un article de fond construit, sur comment fonctionne la dynamique audience/influenceurs d'un événement comme le ZEvent. www.linkedin.com/posts/flef_z...

🚀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!)

Vous avez sûrement déjà lu que la climatisation aggrave les canicules car l’air chaud rejeté à l’extérieur augmenterait la température des villes de 2 à 3°C. Vérifions ce que disent vraiment les études scientifiques à ce sujet 🧑‍🔬 (lisez jusqu’au bout, car vous allez être 🤯🤯 à la fin) #Thread ⬇️⬇️

"why [would] anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist choose to be one [given] the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio "? One of the most intelligent people you could meet offers some answers: having ideas, watching them develop, and sharing them journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Il y a 10 ans, il y avait d’énormes manifestations pour défendre la liberté d’expression. Aujourd’hui, critiquer le premier ministre vous envoie en garde à vue et stage de citoyenneté - à vos frais. bsky.app/profile/ludi...

Par contre : plus de congés, la semaine de quatre jours et la taxation des riches - sans conditions sportives.

Ok, calmer, post-stream digested thoughts about GPT-5. I'll keep it short. 1. A lot of the presentation was vibes-based. "Is GPT-5 better at XYZ? This person said they feel it is. Ok, moving on..." I wonder how much this is because OpenAI think a lot of people use ChatGPT based on vibes already.

📜 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.

We're looking forward to presenting our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 on Sunday Aug. 10 - 11AM, in West Building, Rooms 301-305!

🇬🇧 ✊ Virtuos France is on strike! After the success of Oblivion Remastered, management decided to reward the team with…A layoffs plan. A strike has started on July 10th and our comrades need support. STJV set up a strike fund: www.helloasso.com/as...

✊ Virtuos en grève ! Après avoir sorti Oblivion Remastered avec un grand succès, la direction récompense les équipes avec…Un plan de licenciements. La mobilisation a démarré le 10 juillet et iels ont besoin de soutien. Le STJV a mis en place une caisse de grève : www.helloasso.com/as...

I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3 Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵

Hardware virtual textures look like a marvelous tool for large terrains or volume compression. Alas, they are in a sad state in terms of performance and usability. And strangely, the (very bad) binding perfs varies a lot with the driver. → read here: hal.science/hal-05138369 @rcmz0.bsky.social

Triangles offer a natural strata to layout efficient non uniform random sampling on meshes. Our triangle rejection sampling reaches 10B samples/sec, which can feed primitive instancing, fiber distributions or emissivity sampling. Details in our HPG25 paper: research.adobe.com/publication/...

Another 🧵 on (almost) everything (interesting) about evaluating distances and closest points to quadratic Bezier curves

Si vous vous posez des questions sur la consommation d'eau des data centers, voici un document plutôt écrit grand public sur ce sujet, par les collègues d'EcoInfo (et je ne dis pas cela parce que je connais 3 des 4 auteur(e)s): hal.science/hal-04698568...

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...

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!

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 392 - May 18th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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

The irony of writing an op-ed about how we need more numbers about AI's energy usage... and getting publicly attacked by corporate greenwashers about the fact that the numbers I use are inaccurate. I mean, yes, surely, but... the only way to prove that is by reporting them in the first place? 🤷

Si on accepte ça aujourd'hui de @info.gouv.fr ça ne s'arrêtera pas. Je refuse que l'État contribue à de la désinformation historique alors qu'il y a tant de fonds d'archives à valoriser avec le travail précieux d'historiens. Et on peut faire des reconstitutions plutôt que de s'en remettre à des LLM.

Thank you to everyone speaking up about this publicly. I am unsure why it had to come to this, but I sincerely hope that SIGGRAPH Asia will reverse course. alecjacobson.com/weblog/siggr...