Woah, this jumps out at me immediately since Eric Veach's name is on it. I haven't seen a (relatively) new Eric Veach paper in a long long time. Some backgroun

Woah, this jumps out at me immediately since Eric Veach's name is on it. I haven't seen a (relatively) new Eric Veach paper in a long long time. Some background: Eric Veach is huge in the computer graphics world for laying a ton of the foundations of modern physically based rendering in his PhD thesis [1]. He then went on to work for Pixar and did a ton of work on Renderman (for which he recently got an Academy Award), and then in the early 2000ish left Pixar to go work for Google, where he was the lead on developing AdWords [2]. In short, he's had quite a career, and seeing a new paper from him is always interesting. [1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/ https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/ [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2006-03-05/the-secret-to-googles-success http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2006-03-05/the-secret-to...