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  hey graphics friends, foes, etc.: I’m gonna be at HPG and SIGGRAPH in July. let me know if you will be too—I’d love to meet up and talk shop

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  successful day 1 of #siggraph2026. favorite presentations: “Breathing Life into Illustrations” (stylized rendering for GOAT—elaborate artist tooling), “Hybrid Stylization” (ditto for the recent Last Airbender with a neat technical approach), and “In Defense of Euler Angles in Game Programming” (made a compelling case!)

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  favorite sessions of #siggraph day 2: “Co-Design in Computer Graphics” (how to work better with users of art tools), “Single-View Holographic Volumetric 3D Printing” (whole-object-at-once prints in resin—early but super cool), “Differentiable Polyphase Filtering” (clever approach to a tough problem)

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  belated highlights of #siggraph day 3: “Online Radiance Cache Acceleration” (real-time path tracing, _sans temporal accumulation_), “Tool UX Design and Workflow” (tons of insights from across the industry), “Spatiotemporal FLIP” (drastic speedup for fluid sims by treating particles as 4-dimensional)

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  it’s been a while since I had a place to train aerials regularly so I’m not spending as much time hanging from my hands in midair as I was… but it’s good to know they can still put in the work when they need to

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  been preparing for a move and my desk sold way quicker than I expected it to so now my setup is… this. real gamer hours down here.

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  keynote day! a bunch of friends and colleagues have been working hard on some very cool stuff—can’t wait for the rest of the world to get to see it. #AppleEvent

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  RE: https://mastodon.art/@noah/114356177326650114 a happy #bivisibilityday to my fellow bi people and an honorary shoutout to the colleague who continues to title meetings this way

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  every now and then I take soup out of the microwave just before discovering that the bowl is too hot to hold, basically administering myself a gom jabbar test of “keep holding long enough to carefully put down, or don’t”

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  @tg congrats on the Current launch—it’s ambitious and I like the philosophy behind it. some feedback, having used it for a bit: - I would like a way to control the article and feed text sizes separately—if I make articles comfortable to read then the feed text is too small - the Feedbin icon when I signed into it looked strangely pixelated - for articles that embed video players, it would be helpful to suppress autoplay - the intro text has a bunch of straight apostrophes which could use curling

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  noticed that the ad blocker I’d been using was somehow using 1GB+ of memory so I broke out the Safari content-blocker docs and the web inspector and made my own. now almost every site I regularly visit is way better behaved, including some the old blocker did nothing for. sometimes software is good.

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  been using Cinema 4D as my 3D software for 25 years but it is starting to seriously try my patience. crashes, hangs, 3+ different and uniquely obstreperous node-graph UIs… and they no longer even offer perpetual licenses, just $800+/yr subscriptions. not going to use Blender (it’s Blender) but am increasingly tempted to switch to full-time Houdini.

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  @schwa it’s always been capable and powerful and has only gotten more so; the UI has always been bad and has not gotten appreciably less bad

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  back in Georgia and went to get drinks at the grocery store but was politely informed that they couldn’t sell me alcohol because it’s before noon on a Sunday. had completely forgotten that it’s a little bit the early twentieth century here.

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  it’s inconvenient not having a mic for multiplayer games but I appreciate when they give you built-in mechanics that let you get a point across anyway. in Marathon the other day I was peacefully scrounging when somebody snuck up on me + got instantly downed by the claymore I happened to have set up. _they_ had a mic and said “you’re a son of a bitch, you know that”, to which I could only respond “yes.” “friendly.” as I finished them off

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  @schwa that’s the only software in the entire car that works right. I started the car and tried to adjust the temperature and it somehow missed the touch-up so it just kept adjusting. absurd

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  @toxi it’s such a good game! I put an ungodly number of hours into it. he and the team should be very proud of what they’ve built.

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  the main thing making me support right-to-repair laws is that I need to make my car’s manufacturer give me whatever horrific software is running the touchscreen so I can rewrite it

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  hey it’s Trans Day of Visibility. I have the luxury of being fine with the gender I got but I have friends who’ve transitioned and am proud of them for being themselves. the world is a better place when people have that freedom. support trans rights.