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This is accompanying material to this paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryProcessing https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Mont

This is accompanying material to this paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryProcessing https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryP... Maybe this is the standard for the computer graphics community, but I love how the paper is accompanied by this great webpage and videos. Very inspiring, this is how publications should be done in this day and age: Alongside with material making it easier to understand it.

mkl 4y ago
I don't think it's standard except for some big conferences (e.g. SIGGraph), and Keenan Crane is particularly good at it.
antegamisou 4y ago
Since it's highly likely someone is going to ask, here's some information on how Keenan creates the beautiful illustrations in papers: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingGeometry.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingG...
- rpmuller 4y ago
  Does anyone know how he writes his papers? His illustrations will forever be beyond my skills, but I’d like to up my paper mojo. Since his references are in bibtex, I assume he’s using some flavor of TeX, but this looks more sophisticated than LaTeX. In particular, he has small sub-illustrations next to his section headings that are really hard to get right using LaTeX. Is he using ConTeXt? Which fonts does he use? The ligatures are really nice, also hard to do using standard LaTeX available fonts.
  - antegamisou 4y ago
    Probably uses the ACM SIGGRAPH TeX template files. For example, a recent paper of his team "Repulsive Surfaces" is on arXiv, where the source files of the preprint PDF are available for download https://arxiv.org/format/2107.01664 https://arxiv.org/format/2107.01664
    - rpmuller 4y ago
      Wow, you're correct, he uses ACM TOG for the paper. As a scientist, I mostly just use the REVTeX packages or tufts-latex. Evidently there's a brave new world of other templates out there that I need to learn about. Thanks.
  - evouga 4y ago
    The paper is in LaTeX and uses the required ACMTOG template (also used for SIGGRAPH papers); you can get it at https://www.siggraph.org/preparing-your-content/author-instructions/ https://www.siggraph.org/preparing-your-content/author-instr... The inset figures are probably placed using the “wrapfigure” LaTeX package. It’s janky and frustrating to use, but I agree the results look great! EDIT: Incidentally the template changed recently and people within the graphics community complained about some aspects of it, e.g. the equation typesetting and how subsections and lists are formatted. It's good to hear that people outside the community like it.
  - kloch 4y ago
    You may want to look at Lyx, a WYSIWYG Tex editor https://www.lyx.org/ https://www.lyx.org/
naillo 4y ago
I'm not sure this is the standard. I have a feeling Keenan Crane is trying to set a (fantastic) example for others to follow. His presentations are really top notch and something everyone should strive for, a really inspiring smart guy.

mkl 4y ago

I don't think it's standard except for some big conferences (e.g. SIGGraph), and Keenan Crane is particularly good at it.

antegamisou 4y ago

Since it's highly likely someone is going to ask, here's some information on how Keenan creates the beautiful illustrations in papers: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingGeometry.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingG...

rpmuller 4y ago
Does anyone know how he writes his papers? His illustrations will forever be beyond my skills, but I’d like to up my paper mojo. Since his references are in bibtex, I assume he’s using some flavor of TeX, but this looks more sophisticated than LaTeX. In particular, he has small sub-illustrations next to his section headings that are really hard to get right using LaTeX. Is he using ConTeXt? Which fonts does he use? The ligatures are really nice, also hard to do using standard LaTeX available fonts.
- antegamisou 4y ago
  Probably uses the ACM SIGGRAPH TeX template files. For example, a recent paper of his team "Repulsive Surfaces" is on arXiv, where the source files of the preprint PDF are available for download https://arxiv.org/format/2107.01664 https://arxiv.org/format/2107.01664
  - rpmuller 4y ago
    Wow, you're correct, he uses ACM TOG for the paper. As a scientist, I mostly just use the REVTeX packages or tufts-latex. Evidently there's a brave new world of other templates out there that I need to learn about. Thanks.
- evouga 4y ago
  The paper is in LaTeX and uses the required ACMTOG template (also used for SIGGRAPH papers); you can get it at https://www.siggraph.org/preparing-your-content/author-instructions/ https://www.siggraph.org/preparing-your-content/author-instr... The inset figures are probably placed using the “wrapfigure” LaTeX package. It’s janky and frustrating to use, but I agree the results look great! EDIT: Incidentally the template changed recently and people within the graphics community complained about some aspects of it, e.g. the equation typesetting and how subsections and lists are formatted. It's good to hear that people outside the community like it.
- kloch 4y ago
  You may want to look at Lyx, a WYSIWYG Tex editor https://www.lyx.org/ https://www.lyx.org/

naillo 4y ago

I'm not sure this is the standard. I have a feeling Keenan Crane is trying to set a (fantastic) example for others to follow. His presentations are really top notch and something everyone should strive for, a really inspiring smart guy.