@aras @neilhenning oh, I had read it as that you were being called out for being a beginner. But maybe that is an uncharitable reading of the response!

@neilhenning @aras "beginner's mistake" 🙄

All HPG 2025 papers are now available on the EG digital library.
CGF papers: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/3607201
Conference papers: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/3607202
It has been a huge honor to act as HPG papers chair and guest editor and I look forward to an exciting program in Copenhagen.

Our HPG paper on our next generation renderer RenderMan XPU is now available online: https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.1111/cgf70218/cgf70218.pdf

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2025-shading-course/

@christer Congrats and have fun!

Huge congratulations to my former PhD student Rohan Sawhney for winning the SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🥳

Rohan's thesis develops a whole new class of Monte Carlo methods for solving physical equations, without needing to break the world up into a mesh.

Dissertation here: http://rohansawhney.io/RohanSawhneyPhDThesis.pdf

Explainer thread here: https://x.com/keenanisalive/status/1258152669727899650

Rohan has also compiled some great course material, videos & code: https://rohan-sawhney.github.io/mcgp-resources/

@jiayincao has an awesome new post on ReSTIR GI; highly recommended reading:

https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/understanding_the_math_behind_restir_gi/

Graphics programming is just about discovering different types of aliasing until the day you die.

@aras @yiningkarlli I've always been a fan of @TomDuff 's http://www.iq0.com.

@yiningkarlli that may be one of the best essays about programming I've read.

I sense complexity spirit demon.

https://grugbrain.dev

#GfxFunFact: Ikea design this ceiling light cover on purpose to slowdown rendering.

@inert_aesthetic @ocornut Indeed. "Every experience demands our email address, and giving out our email address adds another email to inboxes already stuffed with two types of spam."

Great read otherwise.

Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

His politics are so mysterious! Stop us if you've heard this one before: a bigoted industrialist who owns a giant car company has endorsed a far-right German political party full of...
https://jwz.org/b/yke4

emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies

It's the real thing. I can tell because of the pixels.

Somehow I had missed that the Utah Teapot has once again escaped confinement. Alan Butler:
https://jwz.org/b/ykdo

It's been 10 years since last time I read this article.
I reread it now to confirm what it says, and to better pass on the insights.
Highly recommended.
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

@fatlimey From the abstract: "posit arithmetic is achieving rapid adoption as a non-proprietary format" 🤨

Here's a cool new paper on an energy-preserving version of the Oren-Nayar model for a rough diffuse BRDF. By Jamie Portsmouth, Peter Kutz, and @self_shadow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18026