I have procrastinated on writing so much that I wrote an entire document on writing tips: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/writin... Probably not much is new but I find I still need to repeat the same things to my students regularly. Will update this document over time hopefully.

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.

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

The EU/Europe and all NATO Partners need to put an end to what the Trump admin is doing and planning to do. The Greenland people are sovereign and decide their future. If the U.S. attempts to militarily annex them that is tantamount to war and subjugation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fantastic presentation, worth a watch!

Check out our recent SIGGRAPH Asia paper on differentiating programs that integrates over discontinuous functions (yes, again), which got the best paper award! yashbelhe.github.io/asd/index.html The first author Yash is looking for a job yashbelhe.github.io so talk to us if you're interested.

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !

I gave a talk at Pacific Graphics 2025 on the topic of "Classical Computer Graphics in the Age of Generative AI". I've uploaded the recording to Youtube today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyci...

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples. momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia...

Please meet @afectivo.bsky.social . This is a new firm my partner and I are starting in Madrid, Spain. For now we are doing consulting work (in audio and outside of audio), but we have other exciting technology projects and initiatives in the pipeline we hope to be announcing in the coming months.

Dr.Jit+Mitsuba just added support for fused neural networks, hash grids, and function freezing to eliminate tracing overheads. This significantly accelerates optimization &realtime workloads and enables custom Instant NGP and neural material/radiosity/path guiding projects. What will you do with it?

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.

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.

Physically-based differentiable rendering enables inverse rendering, but handling visibility is hard. Our SIGGRAPH 2025 paper uses quadrics to importance sample silhouette edges--outperforming all existing unidirectional differentiable path tracers. momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2025...

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

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...

If you work on physically-based differentiable rendering, take a look at our EGSR 2025 paper "Radiative Backpropagation with Non-Static Geometry". TL;DR: Mitsuba 3's prb_reparam and prb_projective integrators are biased when parameters affect geometry, but this unrelated to discontinuities! 1/3

Folks in the #SIGGRAPH community: You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we... If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1... via this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Spherical harmonics are widely used in graphics. Ever wondered how to compute their derivatives? My HPG 2025 poster shows that it is basically free. It also comes with a code generator for C, C++, Python, GLSL and HLSL to compute SH with derivatives. momentsingraphics.de/HPGPoster202...

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.

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

#HPG25 program has been published! highperformancegraphics.org/2025/program...

The latest development version of Dr.Jit now provides built-in support for evaluating and training MLPs (including fusing them into rendering workloads). They compile to efficient Tensor Core operations via NVIDIA's Cooperative Vector extension. Details: drjit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nn...

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

Importance Sampled FAST Noise Here's a 25 minute video about the latest and greatest in blue noise textures / precalculated per pixel random numbers www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSk... Also repo: github.com/electronicar... And published paper: jcgt.org/published/00...

Inverse rendering has become a standard tool for 3D reconstruction problems. However, recovering high-frequency appearance textures is challenging. In our SIGGRAPH 2025 paper, we propose several techniques to robustly reconstruct complex appearances (e.g., human skin). 1/n

🔷🦀 TetWeave: Isosurface Extraction using On-The-Fly Delaunay Tetrahedral Grids for Gradient-Based Mesh Optimization is accepted to #SIGGRAPH2025 (TOG). Done in collaboration with @rubenwiersma.nl, Philipp Herholz, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. But why a new shape representation? (1/9)

Are you based in the U.S. 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 and thinking of doing research in Europe? ERC grants offer up to €4.5 million to support groundbreaking, investigator-driven frontier research in all fields. Watch the dedicated info session for researchers in your region👉 youtu.be/92QYink1Lik #ChooseEurope

An update, a bit of retrospection, and a call for you, yes, you, to help JCGT a bit: www.realtimerendering.com/blog/jcgt-is...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

Le monde reports that on March 9th a French scientist heading for a conference was denied entry to the US. His computer and cellphone were searched, and messages to friends were found where he expressed his opinion on the Trump admin and their politics wrt to science. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Please share: Our lab is looking for new PhD students starting 2025! If you are interested in research in geometry, computational design and digital fabrication, join us at EPFL! More info on the lab: epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ More info on how to apply: www.epfl.ch/education/ph...

My team RGL is looking for new PhD students starting 2025. If you are excited about topics like inverse rendering, compilers for graphics, and physically based modeling then please join us at EPFL. Info about the lab & admission process: rgl.epfl.ch/pages/jobs (Deadline: Dec 15)

Hi! I'll share classical and less known graphics (and other) papers here. The first paper I'll share is "Model-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Monocular Video" from de la Gorce et al. in 2011. They proposed one of the first differentiable rasterizers that can properly handle edge discontinuities.