Teaching #ComputerGraphics via cartoon videos: Prof. Steve Seitz was inspired by #SchoolHouseRock and wondered if he could teach Intro to Computer Graphics that way at University of Washington. realitylab.uw.edu/staging/?p=850 #UWAllen #cartoonshort

C++ developers: I will write a library so that others can reuse my code and don't have to re-invent the wheel. Also C++ developers: my library will have zero dependencies and I will rewrite everything from scratch.

Rust twitter: any idea why we have move as the default while immutable borrow needs to be specified? It seems to me that I most often call functions by immutable borrow and very rarely by move. In code, this add lots of '&' annotation for free functions. What am I missing?

Hotter take: ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been available and widely adopted instead of Python. One that is interactive yet fast & compilable, multithreaded (no GIL), isn't bloated, doesn't care about white spaces,... E.g. Julia or some Lisp.

Even hotter take: the fact that ML and Computer Vision researchers were largely using Matlab *held back progress for years*, mostly because implementing something like a ConvNet in 2005 Matlab would have been a total nightmare.

Happy to announce that our paper "Computing the Riemannian center of mass on meshes" has been accepted to GMP 2023 and is avalibale online at authors.elsevier.com/a/1g%7EEkcAOr6…. This is a joint work with @Enrico_Puppo. See you at IGS'23 in Genova!

So here's an AI art thread you never asked for. Star Wars characters as teapots. Let's start with Darth Vader

We finally get to share our neural materials research. We created custom highly-realistic reference materials, we invented new neural models, and we built new graphics systems. End result is these neural materials run in a real-time path tracer. research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/neura…

Sometimes I feel that the discrepancy is caused by cultural differences in graphics and CV/ML. Graphics research values "novelty" in both methodology and problem setting. Vision/ML has more of a SOTA seeking mindset, which granted has led to the crazy progress in the last decade

Graphics twitter: what is a good mastodon server for our community? And more importantly, is there a strong graphics community on mastodon?

thanks! life is pretty good here!!!

AI twitter: I have been asked to teach a 4-8 hours lab on AI to 4th graders. Never done this my self. Does anybody have ideas or even better some materials on how to do this? Alfredo Canziani?