Masha Sh.

@shumash.bsky.social

Toronto-based artist & AI researcher. Love building interactive tools that work with artist, and not against. Opinions are my own.

I am continually asked if VFMs "understand" classical mechanics and my benchmark for this is the venerable newton's cradle. Let's take a look at progress over the last year using Google's Veo models -- a 🧵

🚀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀, 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲! Convert meshes, Gaussian Splats and more to 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 with 𝗩𝗼𝗠𝗣 (ICLR2026) - the first feed-forward model to predict fine mechanical properties throughout 3D object volume. Kudos @rishit-dagli.bsky.social, @diwlevin.bsky.social, and team! Links👇

Join us Tuesday night at #SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live show to see interactive painting with Gaussian splat brushes, awesome work (and technical paper) by Karran Pandey presented by him and our inspiring collaborators at the National Film Board of Canada!

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...

docs.google.com

Our family cookbook recipestudio.com has been revived, a surprisingly smooth port of a 2012 blogger+app engine concoction to WordPress. Thanks to missing SIGGAsia, I found time to make this birthday present for mom, a talented chef and author of many Russian and other recipes, carefully illustrated.

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NVIDIA Kaolin Library just released V0.17.0! 🎉 with a snazzy new 3D Gaussian Splat volume densifier and Warp library integration for faster Simplicits training - for representation-agnostic physics simulation, such as the splat sim shown below. github.com/NVIDIAGameWo... Kudos, team!

My first post will be my art. Just finished this painting "My friend, the moon", inspired by my Toronto neighborhood. #noai Did I know the moon would be this big when I started, that sky would be purple? No. What a delight to discover, gradually, an image that expresses a mood

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