Star Wars – Rey’s Theme (Piano cover)
A fantastic new composition from John Williams. His work is completely out of this world! It was lots of fun to play and record this on on December 31st.
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Christmas Greeting Cards
730 Christmas greeting cards to be sent out soon to the friends of our Institute. There was lots of signing to be done – such a cool tradition!
Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model
Eric Heitz and his colleagues published one hell of a paper on rendering microfacet materials. It has lots of beautifully written mathematics, and is really well illustrated, evaluated, and the full source code is also published. Now it comes with a narrated supplementary video. The paper is available here (or click the image below), check it out! Status: accepted to […]
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Christian Freude – Distinguished Young Alumnus Award
My student, Christian Freude won the EPILOG Distinguished Young Alumnus award with his Master thesis, “Extending Separable Subsurface Scattering to Arbitrary Materials”. Congratulations, great job! 🙂
Shower Thoughts
The number of people who use the term ‘increasing exponentially’ without knowing what it means is increasing exponentially.