{"id":2857,"date":"2014-03-01T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2015-09-26T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T14:39:50","slug":"and-the-sci-tech-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/and-the-sci-tech-award-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Sci-Tech award goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eric Veach, Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan!\u00a0You can watch their speeches\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3ss_Ozb9Yg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One could hardly overestimate the usefulness of their work.\u00a0Even in the fast-moving field of rendering, Eric&#8217;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 physics after sculpting them here and there to fit a specialized, practical application. <strong>It is commonplace that an engineer takes a technique from a mathematician to solve a practical problem, but it&#8217;s quite rare that an engineer can give back something to the mathematician.<\/strong> With the theory of Multiple Importance Sampling, Eric Veach made such an example, which I have found so far unprecendented. That is, among many others, indeed an inspiring achievement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, with the pbrt book of Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys, we finally have an intuitive, all-encompassing resource for global illumination rendering. It&#8217;s great to see these people getting proper recognition for their achievements!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Veach, Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan!\u00a0You can watch their speeches\u00a0here and here. One could hardly overestimate the usefulness of their work.\u00a0Even in the fast-moving field of rendering, Eric&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[79,78,77,81,80,204,183,82],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eric-veach","tag-greg-humphreys","tag-matt-pharr","tag-oscar","tag-pat-hanrahan","tag-personal","tag-rendering","tag-sci-tech-award"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oscar.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZWyD-K5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}