{"id":5496,"date":"2021-04-19T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:47:02","slug":"seven-things-for-april-19-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-april-19-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for April 19, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/i3dsymposium.github.io\/2021\/\">I3D 2021<\/a> starts tomorrow, Tuesday, April 20th and runs for three days. <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/i3d2021reg\">Register for free<\/a> in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/i3dsymposium.github.io\/2021\/program.html\">converse with speakers<\/a> and attend special events, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/i3dsymposium.github.io\/2021\/posters.html\">the VR posters and demos session<\/a>, town hall, and <a href=\"http:\/\/i3dsymposium.github.io\/2021\/program.html#social\">social events<\/a>. There, I&#8217;ve done my chairing duty for the day. Honestly, I&#8217;m looking forward to it &#8211; nice wide range of topics and activities this year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/i3dsymposium.github.io\/2021\/keynotes.html\">three great keynote speakers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2021\/04\/monster-mash-sketch-based-tool-for.html\">Monster Mash animation system<\/a> looks fun and indistinguishable from magic &#8211; the best kind of technology. <a href=\"http:\/\/monstermash.zone\/\">Try it yourself<\/a>\u00a0(tips: make a core body and add separate strokes for limbs, etc. Hit the record button for each thing you want to animate and click &amp; drag).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/books.html\">our 3D graphics books page<\/a> with a few volumes that came out last year, and two that are upcoming: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/computer-graphics-scratch\">Computer Graphics from Scratch<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in May, which I look forward to seeing, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/blog\/ray-tracing-gems-ii-available-august-4th\/\">Ray Tracing Gems II<\/a><\/em> in August, which is jam-packed with articles. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmarrs\/status\/1382399640692219913\">The cover<\/a> of <em>Ray Tracing Gems II<\/em> is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/02\/marbles-at-night\/\">Marbles RTX project<\/a>, which is a pretty incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H0_NZDSqR3Y\">real-time demo<\/a> worth a view.<\/li>\n<li>You probably know (or should!) about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jendrikillner.com\/post\/\">Jendrik Illner&#8217;s weekly roundups<\/a> of 3D graphics programming articles. You probably didn&#8217;t know he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jendrikillner.com\/article_database\/\">a searchable database<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/04\/08\/watch-a-monkey-equipped-with-elon-musks-neuralink-device-play-pong-with-its-brain\">Monkey plays Pong purely using its brain<\/a>. Fascinating? Horrifying? All I know is that I now want a smoothie dispenser on my monitor setup.<\/li>\n<li>An oldie from 2015 that I missed until now: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/levork\/status\/609603797258600448\">the Rendering Equation described<\/a> using only the top 1000 most popular words.<\/li>\n<li>Tatsuo Horiuchi <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-paintings\/\">uses Excel to make paintings<\/a>. Which is a bit click-baity &#8211; he&#8217;s using the draw tools in Excel to do it. Still impressive, and I do appreciate his attitude: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OrwBc6PwAcY&amp;t=106s\">&#8220;yes, I am a fool.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-paintings-Tatsuo-Horiuchi-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-paintings-Tatsuo-Horiuchi-4.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-paintings-Tatsuo-Horiuchi-4-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-paintings-Tatsuo-Horiuchi-4-500x233.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven things: I3D 2021 starts tomorrow, Tuesday, April 20th and runs for three days. Register for free in order to converse with speakers and attend special events, such as the VR posters and demos session, town hall, and social events. There, I&#8217;ve done my chairing duty for the day. Honestly, I&#8217;m looking forward to it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}