The talk I presented at #SIGGRAPH2026 is now available on YouTube, for anyone who couldn’t attend or would like to revisit it :) youtu.be/OFJYBUArVPc?...

Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data - SIGGRAPH 2026 [Technical paper presentation]

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Xiana Carrera@xianacarrera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/6 Excited to share our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper, Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data! We propose a new method for reconstructing sharp meshes from discrete samples of signed distance functions (SDFs) that does not require gradients. Project page: gatc.cs.columbia.edu/projects/dua...

Another recent Animation Obsessive article that I really like: this one about Hayao Miyazaki's gorgeous image boards. Miyazaki's image boards aren't storyboards, but they're not fleshed out concept art either; they kind of sit somewhere in between. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...

thank you @cakejumper.bsky.social and @ivgorchestra.com for tonight! you guys put on a fantastic show!!

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

This week's issue of Animation Obsessive features a wonderful article about Studio Ghibli's color designer, Michiyo Yasuda. Her work was just gorgeous; I really admire how Ghibli films keep a more toned down natural palette without going muddy/murky. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

Plus: news.

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SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

making your own mochi is honestly pretty fun - just gotta remember to snap a photo before half of them get eaten D;

Proud of myself today. What started as a simple infinite-grid shader turned into a month-long journey through rendering, maths, and plenty of frustration—but I finally got it working. I wrote about everything I learned: willofindie.com/proj/infinit... #webgpu #rustlang #glsl #realtimerendering

Infinite Grid Shader

Learning to create an infinite grid procedurally using GLSL shaders. This post contains my notes, lessons and findings, and is intended for personal reference. Therefore, you might find errors, misjud...

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yu deng, the winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, the "nobel prize for mathematics", cites yuri manga in particular as helping ground and comfort him during his work

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I found the first smear frame ever

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At SIGGRAPH 2026 I saw this absolute banger of a paper by James and James. Beautiful imagery, matched by beautiful technical work, by a father and son team, which won a best paper award. I've always loved marbleization patterns. dougjam.github.io/mixwell-2026/ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

TodayOnSteam@todayonsteam.com · 2w ago

Scarlet Deer Inn https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/

Hopefully one last SIGGRAPH advertisement. I, myself, yours truly, will present on Haolin's behalf a data-driven method for joint adaptive sampling and quadrature for integration. Wed R408A. In the end of the talk I'll argue why everyone is doing the wrong thing. Paper: suikasibyl.github.io/nqr

Tomorrow at #SIGGRAPH2026 (Monday) @ 3:45-5:35pm, come to the papers session "Creating & Iso-Surfacing SDFs" in Room 408B. A paper I'm looking forward to is "Subgrid Marching Tetrahedra" by Hossein Baktash (yes, I'm biased as his labmate, but it's a great idea) [1/n]

I went on a small side-quest this week after reading about the "waterfall scheme" presented [here](gpu-primitives-course.github.io) and trying/failing to find examples of it in the wild. turns out people just use different names for things: in prefix sums, it's called the "chained scan"

Once again begging people to play this

Toby Alden@brlka.com · 3w ago

LOVE ETERNAL has been updated with Japanese language support and is on sale for 20% until July 30th to celebrate! lock in gamers

Next week at #SIGGRAPH 2026, we'll present "Locality-Aware Automatic Differentiation on the GPU for Mesh-Based Computations," with Rahul Goel, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Mon., July 20, 2:50 PM, Room 403-B Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... More below (1/7):

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

EGSR 2026 recordings: www.youtube.com/@egsr2026/pl... (Also linked from the programme: egsr2026.inria.fr/programme/)

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

I love good games and I care deeply about the people who make them. I'm sick to death of the *military-grade denial* I've seen from nearly all corners on just how grim things have been looking. I worry that game dev has already crossed into *no longer a career, but could be a hobby* territory

I’m not super invested in the AAA side of the games industry, but god, to gut *Id Software* of all people… I really loved their engine & rendering tech talks in recent years. so much institutional knowledge and expertise being thoughtlessly flung into the void

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.

my #1 grizzly beard protip for (game) dev is: if you have a bug that you dont understand the cause of immediately, dont try to fix it; add & iterate visualization / inspection tools until the cause is plain to see. the accumulation of 'observability' in your system's state will pay off many times

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Wanted to capture the full exchange

attended a graphics conference for the first time! having known a lot of these names through papers and youtube videos and tweets, it’s kinda surreal to have met the real flesh-and-blood people behind all the cool research

Our #HPG2026 paper "Memory-Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies with Merged Nodes for Hardware Ray Tracing" introduces new ways of constructing BVHs that consistently outperform state-of-the-art BVHs for GPU ray tracing. Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro... @ebrunvand.bsky.social