Seven Things for August 27, 2020

• I3D 2020 registration is open. It’s free, and registration lets you interact: ask questions, enter the virtual posters session space, speak up at the town hall, etc. Find the trailer here, whole schedule here, and keynotes here.
• Like clockwork, Stephen Hill’s SIGGRAPH 2020 Links page is up. SIGGRAPH itself provides an Open Access page to some sessions from this and past years.
• Speaking of open, if you’re not providing pre-prints of your work, you’re limiting your audience. The ACM has officially allowed pre-prints to also be posted to ArXiv now. Here’s the how-to guide.
• Here is a wonderful interactive article on photogrammetry, with 3D scenes contained within it. Just keep scrolling to see it all, or break off at various points to explore the environments along the way.
• Dave Eberly has a new book out, “Robust and Error-Free Geometric Computing.” My copy’s on order.
• This article discusses the history and goals of USD, the open source Universal Scene Description format that Pixar has developed and that is gaining traction in the film industry. Bonus: learn of the liver-peas rubric.
• This: