Throughout 2021, this account will post a wildcard link on "Fun Friday." This week we start with a signals-focused deep-dive into the oscillator design of the classic Roland Juno-6 synthesizer from 1982 by Stargirl 🌠 blog.thea.codes/the-design-of-…

Quality tetrahedral meshing is often needed for volumetric simulation. Yixin Hu et al present the fTetWild project, an open-source polygon-soup to tetrahedral mesh algorithm that performs robustly across imperfect inputs, a classically hard problem github.com/wildmeshing/fT…

The NYT R&D Team (@nytimesrd) builds an interactive web experience that bring viewers through the capture, refinement, and annotation of high-quality "journalistic scenes" reconstructed with an offline photogrammetry process rd.nytimes.com/projects/recon…

Unity Graphics Engineer Evgenii Golubev (Evgenii Golubev) offers a quantitative look at reverse Z-buffering, a widely adopted technique in modern rasterized engines to eliminate (or mitigate) float point depth buffer precision issues. zero-radiance.github.io/post/z-buffer/

For this week's wildcard Friday link, we highlight the Women in Graphics Research organization (WiGRAPH), a group of researchers offering networking and mentorship towards robust and inclusive representation of women in the field. wigraph.org

Visual programming languages (like Unreal's Blueprint) are commonplace in content toolchains. Ivan Reese (Ivan Reese) maintains a curated collection of visual programming resources, cataloging specific products & critical reflections on VPLs ivanish.ca/codex

Matt Pharr released a preview of the PBRT-v4 renderer on Github, a WIP look at the system described in the forthcoming 4th ed. of Physically Based Rendering. PBRT-v4 focuses on a unified pathtracing architecture inclusive of both CPU + GPU acceleration. github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4

Monte-Carlo Geometry Processing @ SIGGRAPH 2020 from Rohan Sawhney & Keenan Crane describes a new method to efficiently solve geometric PDEs (e.g. Laplace/Poisson kernels) on many types of boundary representations like polygon-soup or implicit surfaces. cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Proje…

Fun Friday: an open-source virtual computer keyboard simulator with configurable layouts, languages, and color schemes resulting in a relaxing visual ASMR environment. keyboardsimulator.xyz

Graphics programmer Simon Coenen (@simon_coenen) details the major render passes and pipeline decisions made in id Tech 7, the pure Vulkan renderer used in Doom Eternal simoncoenen.com/blog/programmi…

Few mobile devices have a hardware depth camera, making monocular depth estimation an important component in popular computational photography apps. Google presents new open-source work that marries a typical SfM pipeline with a learning-based prior. github.com/facebookresear…

Mathematics Prof. Nick Higham (Nick Higham) writes a series of "What Is" articles that detail important concepts in numerical analysis & linalg. Not for an introductory audience, they cover topics like the generalized inverse, QR factorization, and much more. github.com/higham/what-is

Eulearian? Lagrangian? 2D? Incompressible? LOD support? Foam? Spray? Deep? Shallow? Turbulent? Water simulation & rendering has a long history in computer graphics practice & theory. This page via @crest_ocean provides an index of helpful resources github.com/crest-ocean/wa…

Fun Friday: Procedural City Generator is an open-source project by Keir that algorithmically models American-styled cities with a variety of rendering styles and export formats like png, heightmap, svg, and stl github.com/ProbableTrain/…

Bart Wronski (Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸) writes on his experience working on titles like Witcher 2 + Far Cry 4. He highlights the challenges of integrating graphics algorithms while managing the complexity of pipeline integration, tooling, performance, and more. bartwronski.com/2020/12/27/why…

Graphics engineer Björn Ottosson (Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect) proposes Oklab, a new perceptual color space that improves upon CIELAB by producing smoother color transitions between gradients and maintaining hue while boosting saturation. bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

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GPS – ciechanow.ski/gps/

To operate on large and complex meshes, we need data structures that are efficient and compact. Halfedge data structure is great for traversing the mesh by bringing in a new entity named halfedge. Here we look at some basics about the data structure.

Pretty neat that Dreamworks is open sourcing their production renderer, Moonray openmoonray.org