Intel has finally released a revamped version of its highly-popular Intel Embree Ray Tracing library, elevating the ray-tracing experience on the Arc GPUs to new heights. wccf.tech/1cd3e

The first time I attended Siggraph (1998), it was its 25th birthday, I bought a booklet with seminal articles. Oh ! it's ACM SIGGRAPH's 50 years birthday 🎂, they republished a list of seminal articles: dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.11… Oh, "Least Squares Conformal Maps" is in the list !! 🙏

Live from #ASWFOpenSourceDays: Laura Reznikov from @Intel and an #ASWF Board Member talks about updates to Embree and Open Image Denoise. #opensource #vfx #animation Join us virtually by registering for free at hubs.la/Q01-8sKZ0

Closing out #ASWFOpenSourceDays: Pauline Koh from @AWScloud talks about portable render jobs for open source content production pipelines. #aswf #aws #opensource #pipeline #vfx

The ASWF USD Working Group has compiled a list of talks and events at SIGGRAPH 2023 related to USD. Hope everyone has a great conference! wiki.aswf.io/display/WGUSD/…

I waited for 2 years for this day! #SIGGRAPH2023 #RealTimeLive! will start at 6 pm PDT. The live stream on twitch.tv/acmSIGGRAPH will begin in less than 5 hours. Watch it LIVE and vote for the WINNER! The stage is set, the presenters are ready, and the countdown has started!

I think we all should get sabbaticals after SIGGRAPH to absorb everything and let our voices recover. #SIGGRAPH2023

It was a very busy and very interesting siggraph. Now to enjoy a sabbatical 🥳

🥰 RIT family

I recommend checking out the talks from Academy Software Foundation Open Source Days 2023. There were a lot of great talks of the value of open source even for for-profit software companies. #OSS #ASWF #siggraph #USD aswf.io/blog/opensourc…

I put out a new video about how to program a application in DX12 from scratch, in my series on Graphics Programming in Ukrainian. I go over descriptors, barriers, command lists, and other objects in DX12. Please share if you can! youtube.com/watch?v=-2xsx1…

🥳🥳🥳I have open-sourced the code of our Siggraph 2023 paper: shortest path to boundary for self-intersecting meshes at: github.com/AnkaChan/Short… The code includes a test example that allows you to quickly get your hands on the algorithm. Please see the repo for more info.

A recording of my presentation at the Academy Software Foundation (Academy Software Foundation) Open Source Day is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=2KcrzV…

Reminder RenderThreads.com exists for all your graphics geek merchandise needs 🤓🥰 Happy to take design suggestions during my sabbatical.

Don't forget to join us at 1:00 pm PT today for our USD Working Group Virtual Town Hall! Register at hubs.la/Q01_bV9_0 #aswf #USD #OpenUSD #vfx #animation

Essential: intro-to-restir.cwyman.org

GPU Zen 3 call for authors is open! gpuzen.blogspot.com #GPU #AI #denoising #LOD #compute #raytracing #pathtracing #graphics