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Funny coincidence, I happened to see this just yesterday in SIGGRAPH technical papers trailer[1]. Seeing the videos of SIGGRAPH is one of the highlights of sci

by zokier 3y ago

Funny coincidence, I happened to see this just yesterday in SIGGRAPH technical papers trailer[1]. Seeing the videos of SIGGRAPH is one of the highlights of science year to me; even though I don't understand the stuff basically at all, I can enjoy the pretty pictures and appreciate the intricacies/complexity of trying to simulate/model some seemingly mundane things. In some ways it makes me look at the world in new light and recognize just how much detail there is around me all the time. [1] https://youtu.be/VBZ2sDxvZQE https://youtu.be/VBZ2sDxvZQE

lbourdages 3y ago
It's very fun to go watch the presentations from years past. Stuff we now take for granted (e.g. rendering glass using ray tracing) used to be bleeding edge not too long ago.
- zokier 3y ago
  On the flip side, there is tons of stuff that never escaped academia and only existed on a proof-of-concept level, with no code available and for casual observer like me no way to play around with.
tzs 3y ago
For a lot of those papers in the trailer it is not at all clear to me why they are at SIGGRAPH. They seemed more about figuring out the state of a simulated physical system than about how to draw that system.