7 Things for February 6

With the excitement of Ground Hog’s Day and James Joyce’s birthday over, it’s time to take off the silly paper hats and get back to writing “7 things” columns. Here goes: Jeremy Shopf gives a nice summary of recent ambient occlusion papers. AO is becoming the new Shadows—every conference must have a paper on the […]

Utilities

Three events have got me thinking about utilities: Christer Ericson’s post, getting a Mac laptop, and sending my older son off to college (to Northeastern, in Computer Science – not my doing, he just liked his high school courses in programming). There are tons of useful utilities, from file searchers to spyware detectors to sound […]