Charles Babbage intentionally designed the computer as an automation of mental labor. Today, computer graphics automates visual art production via privately governed generative models. How did we get here? Critical Labor History of Generative Models, SIGGRAPH Talks '26 🧵

ALPS: low-poly vector art for the low, low price of $0.00! CALL NOW at 1-800-GET-ALPS youtu.be/HZoWIM9_SD0 #SIGGRAPH fast forward

Gradient Descent in the ALPS SIGGRAPH 2026 Fast Forward

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We're holding the Sustainable Graphics Birds of a Feather event again this year at #SIGGRAPH 🌱 please join us on Tuesday at 5PM (room 512)! This is a casual meet-up format open to anyone who's interested in the topic >> add to your schedule s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Schedule

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If you're coming to #SIGGRAPH, don't miss the 2026 Thesis Fast Forward in-person event! Recent PhD graduates will present their exciting thesis work on Monday 20 July from 10:30-11:30am in Room 404AB of the LA convention center: s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Yay, GravoTet received the best paper award at SMI! 🎉

Ruben Wiersma@rubenwiersma.nl · 3mo ago

When we presented GravoMG, a fast multigrid solver for surfaces, the first question we got was: can you make this work for tetrahedral meshes? Tomorrow, Marcel Padilla will present the answer at SMI in Istanbul. Sneak preview: yes, it's really fast. Code and paper: marcelpadilla.com/Projects/Gra...

When we presented GravoMG, a fast multigrid solver for surfaces, the first question we got was: can you make this work for tetrahedral meshes? Tomorrow, Marcel Padilla will present the answer at SMI in Istanbul. Sneak preview: yes, it's really fast. Code and paper: marcelpadilla.com/Projects/Gra...

👉 Free for personal use: boldbobbin.com 👉 And if you want to shape what gets built next, come hang out in the Discord: discord.gg/wpnXsuxdkK I would love to know what you make! 🧵

Boldbobbin — The Modern Workspace for Embroidery Digitizing

The modern embroidery workspace in your browser or on your desktop.

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I recently completed my PhD thesis, where I developed algorithms for making geometric inferences from imperfect data (i.e. incomplete and inaccurate observations/representations of shapes, like broken meshes or point clouds). A thread 🧵:

New job, new papers and some new creative projects. Time for an update of rubenwiersma.nl 🎉

Ruben Wiersma · Computer Graphics, Art and ML

Ruben Wiersma, Research Scientist at Adobe Research. My research topics include computer graphics, geometry processing and machine learning.

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Having a wonderful time at the Eurographics Conference in Aachen! I gave the longest talk of my life (3h) on the biggest screen of my life and I received the Eurographics PhD award for my thesis 🎉 A huge thanks to @eurographicsc.bsky.social and all my collaborators and supporters!

I think this is a great article that puts to words something I've been thinking for a while about LLMs/AI/etc; as tools they clearly can be useful and are here to stay, but the real concern should be the effect it's having on the talent pipeline. (1/5) ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Are you interested in #GeometryProcessing? Are you great with programming in C++? Are you a Master's/PhD student or a Postdoc? Then please apply for this project for the #GSoC. This is a great way to boost your portfolio while contributing to a widely used OpenSource library.

The #SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward 2026 is here! Learn about the future of CG in 9 PhD theses: from Monte Carlo PDE solvers and photorealistic 3D avatars to fantasy-based rehab games and modular umbrella meshes. 🎓✨ youtu.be/FlrTZEJeEXs

SIGGRAPH Thesis Fastforward 2026

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The #SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward 2026 submissions are now open! Deadline: Nov 7th 2025. Let the world know what you've been working on in your PhD! More info at research.siggraph.org/thesisff/ and check out last year's iteration youtube.com/watch?v=8esF...

The #SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward 2026 submissions are now open! Deadline: Nov 7th 2025. Let the world know what you've been working on in your PhD! More info at research.siggraph.org/thesisff/ and check out last year's iteration youtube.com/watch?v=8esF...

Our fast forward for SIGGRAPH 2025. Keep SIGGRAPH weird! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYel...

Fast Forward SIGGRAPH 2025 - Uncertainty for SVBRDF Acquisition using Frequency Analysis

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Mark your calendars for the #SIGGRAPH 2025 Thesis Fast Forward in-person event. Recent PhD graduates will present their thesis work and answer questions on Monday 11 August, 10:30-11:30am: s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

If you are interested in joining a lively and supportive discussion space about sustainability & graphics research, please join our birds of a feather event on Tue Aug. 12 - 4PM, in East Building, Room 9 🌱 Co-organized with Felix Hähnlein, Chenxi Liu, Maria Larsson, and @rubenwiersma.nl

Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

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Mark your calendars for the #SIGGRAPH 2025 Thesis Fast Forward in-person event. Recent PhD graduates will present their thesis work and answer questions on Monday 11 August, 10:30-11:30am: s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

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Simple idea to filter out (some) LLM-written papers with non-existent references: check the reference file agains DBLP and desk reject if a certain % of citations doesn't exist.

🎉☕ Announcing WiGRAPH Conference Coffees: SIGGRAPH 2025 Edition! ☕🎉 Are you a researcher of an underrepresented gender registered for SIGGRAPH? Do you want an opportunity to network with your peers? Learn more and sign up here: www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...

WiGRAPH Conference Coffee: Sign-Up

WiGRAPH is organizing a SIGGRAPH 2025 conference coffee! Are you a researcher of a gender that is underrepresented at SIGGRAPH? Would you like for an opportunity to network with peers? Sign up for th...

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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.

Moving to sustainable manufacturing requires new computational design tools. We show how to make new objects from old "trash". 🚮 Presented on Thursday at SGP 2025 in the Fabrication session.

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...

Open Letter to the SIGGRAPH Leadership

RE: Call for SIGGRAPH Asia to relocate from Malaysia and commit to a venue selection process that safeguards LGBTQ+ and other at-risk communities. To the SIGGRAPH Leadership: SIGGRAPH Executive Commit...

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I'm sharing code&data of an unpublished project 🤯 During my PhD, I worked on applications of #computergraphics for #paintinganalysis. The main hurdle was the lack of #opensource code&data. I gathered my own, but didn't get to use it. Now I'm sharing it, so others can. 1/3 github.com/rubenwiersma...

GitHub - rubenwiersma/painting_tools: Painting Tools and Dataset

Painting Tools and Dataset. Contribute to rubenwiersma/painting_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Annika Oehri, Philipp Herholz, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Higher Order Continuity for Smooth As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Modeling jcgt.org/published/00...

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

This was a wonderful collaboration 🤩 We developed a method that optimizes both an irregular tetrahedral grid and SDF for mesh optimization with marching tets. It recovers really detailed meshes with a fraction of the memory!

Alexandre Binninger@alexbinninger.bsky.social · last yr.

🔷🦀 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)

Has anyone else noticed a particular style to ChatGPT comics? I wonder if they sourced or synthesized a very ‘narrow’ dataset — or maybe it’s just confirmation bias on my end. The same for fonts.