Interested in USD and/or glTF? Eric Haines put together a nice resources page with pragmatic advice. Great starting point. Metaverse Standards Forum Alliance for OpenUSD glTF 3D

The books the shaped my Computer Graphics brain.

How do you triangulate a polygon wrapped around an ellipsoid? Nice article by Gabby Getz on the new approach in Cesium that supports large polygons on the globe. cesium.com/blog/2023/10/1…

The free web version of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Practice" is now based on the 4th edition of the book. Enjoy! (Link: pbr-book.org)

It was great to chat WebGPU, WebGL, glTF, and broadly about 3D on the web with long-time friends Ken Russell 🇺🇦 and Corentin Wallez on the latest episode of the BuildingTheOpenMetaverse podcast with cohost Marc Petit. buildingtheopenmetaverse.org/episodes/web-s… WebGPU WebGL glTF 3D

You need to go just to see this meeting room.

We are so excited to host the next I3D Symposium conference at Cesium in Philadelphia in May 2024. Looking forward to all the advances across rendering, reconstruction, games, etc. I3D papers have been a huge resource for us over the years. Submit your work by January 5, 2024.

Love this trip down glTF 3D memory lane by Gary Hsu. Microsoft getting on board with glTF and prompting the first version of PBR was the ultimate inflection point for glTF and the robust specification and ecosystem we enjoy today.

Nice summary of ongoing progress of glTF 3D and USD interoperability across geometry, materials, animation, and physics. Alliance for OpenUSD Metaverse Standards Forum

Always fun to track Santa on Christmas Eve with Cesium, WebGL, and glTF 3D. NORAD Tracks Santa has been reporting Santa's accurate geolocation using these open standards since 2012. Happy holidays! noradsanta.org/en/map

New tutorial and code samples on shading effects for building undersea and underwater apps with Cesium and the new Cesium World Bathymetry tileset by Gabby Getz. cesium.com/blog/2024/01/2…

Really happy to see Penn graphics and computer science alum (including former my GPU course student) starting companies! If you are interested in AI-based organic games, follow the journey of Stephen Zhen Gou and Mike Mei at First Day Entertainment.

Learned a lot about practical gaussian splat implementation from Aras Pranckevičius 🇺🇦🇱🇹 who has a knack for breaking things down into simple bits, check out the video!

Thrilled to launch the nonprofit CreateAccess that aims to help close opportunity gaps in 3D with freely available 3D creation microcourses to enable the next generation of creators. CreateAccess is cofounded and led by my partner, Liz Dailey. createaccess.org