been working on a .usda importer...meshes have been achieved internally...

it has been seven^W zero days since the last npm supply-chain attack

kinda made a nodegraph for meshmixer...

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5! New features below! 🧵(1/6)

although I maintain that GLTF is a garbage file format that has done immense and irreparable damage to meshes everywhere, I did manage to implement a parser/importer in a few hours in C# (thanks to magic json-to-struct deserialization). So there's that...

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.

life pro tip: you can get free LLM API access by finding people crashing out in Claude Code issues, then looking at network requests from their vibe-coded websites!

Starting to feel increasingly likely that Content Creation is going to end up with game-breaking pay-to-win mechanics that are going to upend the current free-to-play meta (ie young people with open source, low cost-of-living, and infinite time)

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

it's pretty wild how high-res these mesh generators can go now. Even the v3.0 standard is probably too detailed for game use though...needs a low-poly and baked normals. And that vastly complicates 'fixing' any problems...so it's kinda ended up in the same spot as 3D scanning 🤷‍♂️...

Have just discovered that if anyone tries to send email to my main email address from Outlook, the message just silently disappears. It’s not delivered but there is no bounce/error either. 🤬

it's like implicit modeling...without having to deal with all the limitations of implicit modeling...

really pisses me off that stupid bullshit like "getting some exercise" and "drinking more water" actually works

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

Always fun when some low-level graphics tech improvement gets boiled down for a mass-news headline. Spheres!! What will those wizards think of next…

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My! New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary. blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...

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.

watching this video on neural scaling laws and the guy just said that based on experimental data the intrinsic dimension of natural language is 42... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqR...)

I don't have a strong opinion about whether video models “understand the world.” But I do think the first bar should be checking whether you can recover consistent geometry from video—not whether it makes accurate predictions of physics.

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

How can one reconstruct the complete 3D interior of a wood block using only photos of its surfaces? 🪵 At SIGGRAPH'25 (Thursday!), Maria Larsson will present *Mokume*: a dataset of 190 diverse wood samples and a pipeline that solves this inverse texturing challenge. 🧵👇

this is a good intro to LLM concepts, looking forward to more in the series

I appreciate these linkedin skill endorsements but tbh kinda sad that nobody acknowledged my paper-rejection skills

my UEToolbox plugin now has support for Parametric StaticMesh Assets. And it now full source is on FAB, and the code is on Github, too. And also unfortunately I have to move on to other projects :( Wrote a big ol' blog post about it all here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...

Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...

had to look up what year 12 Monkeys happened in…seems like we are safe

hmm maybe shoulda taken that roblox job...

Simple Desmos 3D implementation of ttnghia.github.io/pdf/Quadrati...: www.desmos.com/3d/857tn8jhjl Roughly a 5 years old paper by now, but seems awfully relevant still. By a former student of @cemyuksel.com, who I believe is at Nvidia now.

this is really interesting, Battlefield 6 is not using Godot as it's engine, but because Godot is free & open it makes perfect sense to repurpose it as "just" a level editor, presumably with a custom exporter for whatever the actual Engine (Frostbite) needs.

OPEN SCIENCE IS THE FUTURE! Very pleased to see the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM — the parent organization to my “home” conference SIGGRAPH) has announced it is transitioning to full open access by January 2026!! #ACM #open #access #science #publication #journal #compsci

AI/ML research in medicine often uses a large amounts of variables but relatively few patients in comparison. I can't help but think that whatever they find might just be coincidental. In a high dim space you can easily fit a wide range of observations. This paper seems to confirm this notion

Awful story about a Swiss woman trying to visit the US for vacation and getting sent off to a prison facility, treated egregiously, and then deported, because border officials simply decided she was actually going to do some work while there. What does this mean for e.g., academics attending a […]

I'm very excited to announce our #SIGGRAPH2025 workshop: Drawing & Sketching: Art, Psychology, and Computer Graphics 🎨🧠🫖 🔗 lines-and-minds.github.io 📅 Sunday, August 10th Join us to explore how people draw, how machines draw, and how the two might draw together! 🤖✍️

have entirely lost the motivation to write about geometry/coding on my website...feels like I'll just be creating content for the Robot to ingest :(

sometimes it's wild to learn about things that Blender apparently didn't have until now...

“What could you possibly want a 3D printer for?” The little things…

🚨 The Cloudheim Open Beta is LIVE! Jump in this weekend to explore the world of Cloudheim and bonk grobbs to your heart's content. 🫶 Playtest Period: Friday July 18th 12pm ET - Monday July 21st 12pm ET Platforms: PC (Steam & Epic Games Store) #Cloudheim #OpenBeta

thanks for clearing that up, AI overview

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Yes! Here are all the SGP grad school recordings for every year: school.geometryprocessing.org

The materials of my graduate school course at #SGP2025 on "Deep Learning on Meshes and Point Clouds" are live on rubenwiersma.nl/deeplearning. A 'map' for 3D deep learning, covering the basics and thoughts on when and where to use deep learning tools in 3D.

Rarely you see life-changing new tips about tools you've been using for almost three decades 😮

Watching a kid try to learn some coding by following a tutorial and VSCode is so eager to literally do it all for him. He starts to type a function name and it generates the args and fills in the code. He is “done” the tutorial and has learned nothing.

🦉 Wisdom Project update. wisdom.limo