Entries by zsolnai

Dream Symphony Orchestra – Colors of The Wind

I have arranged and played an orchestra version of the incredible Disney hit song from Pocahontas, Colors of The Wind. The song is available for download in mp3, and for the fellow audiophiles out there, flac. 🙂

And the Sci-Tech award goes to…

Eric Veach, Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan! You can watch their speeches here and here. One could hardly overestimate the usefulness of their work. Even in the fast-moving field of rendering, Eric’s methods have been prevalent for more than one and a half decade now. In this field, we usually borrow techniques from theoretical mathematics and […]

On peer review and paper preprint dissemination

I have recently come across two great pieces: Professor Larry Wasserman and Walter Noll suggests a simple two-tier publishing system. CERN physicists show statistics on the viability of arXiv in High Energy Physics (HEP) research, where they found the following: as of 2008, more than 95% of the peer-reviewed HEP journal articles are also published on […]

Image-free computer graphics

Eugene d’Eon, one of the most influential and prolific authors in subsurface light transport research states an indeed very interesting and thought-provoking thought in his review of the Photon Beam Diffusion paper: “It seems unclear to me that graphics papers like this one need images anymore. Carefully presented plots do much more to convince the […]

Progress on Navier-Stokes regularity

To the very best of my knowledge, Kazakh professor Mukhtarbay Otelbaev submitted a paper on the solution of the Navier-Stokes regularity Millenium problem. It seems that he had found an upper bound for a unique solution for the periodic boundary condition formulation of the problem. For the readers who are familiar with the notation, the main result is […]

Pierre Moreau visiting

Pierre Moreau from Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan is dropping by for a project in global illumination. Welcome! 🙂