Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 02/06/2026Is there a slide deck software for Linux that supports embedding video such that - on slide display, the first video frame shows - on cue, the video begins (without flashing to black first)? I grudgingly keep a separate Windows partition just for PowerPoint because I haven’t found this. 230
Reposted by Alexa SchorTheodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good. arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835 1/arxiv.orgThe Racial Character of Computer Graphics ResearchComputer graphics algorithms for generating photorealistic imagery are widely perceived to be universal, and capable of conjuring anything that a filmmaker or game designer can imagine. However, recen... 22612
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 07/05/2026I like github.com/brettcs/dtrx for this purposegithub.comGitHub - brettcs/dtrx: Do The Right ExtractionDo The Right Extraction. Contribute to brettcs/dtrx development by creating an account on GitHub. 110
Reposted by Alexa SchorJustin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Announcing SGI 2026! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu 1128
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 28/12/2025Getting back into crossword constructing with a belated Hanukkah puzzle: crosshare.org/crosswords/Q...crosshare.orgBelated Hanukkah 15x15Duck dentist's domain?; Largest European bank, for short; \* With 50D, 2024 film whose titular character marries a Russian oligarch's son and celebrates a Maccabee-related miracle.; The second-most-fa... 000
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 22/12/2025In exciting aviation news, Garmin’s autoland was successfully deployed for the first time after the pilot of a B200 King Air was incapacited in the air! www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...flightradar24.comGarmin Emergency Autoland deployed for the first time | Flightradar24 BlogGarmin autoland was deployed for the first time in an emergency, safely landing Beech B200 Super King Air N479BR in Denver. 010
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 25/11/2025Writing code on a bumpy train and tried stabilizing the display image to my head -- it does (surprisingly) make things a bit easier to read but overall feels too weird to actually use. 1245
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 05/11/2025When I was young, I started reading programming books before I was familiar with the English prefix “pseudo-“, so I kept seeing algorithms “in pseudocode” and thought “wow, I should learn that language instead, it seems so easy” 040
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 20/10/2025I spent a few minutes trying to parse this NYC parking sign yesterday -- the best I can figure is that non-commercial parking is only allowed in January? 020
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 10/08/2025I won’t be at SIGGRAPH this year, but if you are, make sure to check out my colleagues’ amazing work! 4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a 3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25 060
Reposted by Alexa SchorAna Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...anadodik.github.ioMeschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible ObjectsMeschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects 23814
Reposted by Alexa SchorMandy Xia @mandyxmq.bsky.social · 29/07/2025🥻Our new #SIGGRAPH2025 paper introduces a novel pipeline that captures and digitizes physical threads, predicts fabric appearance from the weaving pattern, and aids designers in exploring new possibilities. 🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html 1145
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 16/07/2025People still seem to trust LLMs without considering the potential for overt manipulation or bias, and I think we’re also nearing the end of a brief period where chatbot makers assumed that prompts would be hidden: future manipulation will likely come in ways that are harder to directly observe. 1/2 110
Reposted by Alexa SchorEmilie Yu @emxtyu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs? Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research" with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein 25020
Reposted by Alexa SchorMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 09/05/2025brb trying to convince every graphics paper author to use the same taxonomy for implicit functions 4422
Reposted by Alexa SchorJustin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering! 082
Reposted by Alexa SchorJustin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics 1203
Reposted by Alexa SchorMandy Xia @mandyxmq.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I’ll be giving a talk at the New England Symposium on Graphics at MIT this year! 0113
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 03/04/2025First attempt at SMT soldering (chip is 4x7mm). Came out “far from good but good from far” - I’m happy with it. 080
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 18/02/2025It's worth noting the Times' removal (left) of the victim's gender from the headline, I think. Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case. 120
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 24/01/2025Whenever I see this notification I get briefly excited that maybe Google found a new paper of mine that I didn’t know about. 030
Reposted by Alexa SchorJustin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Announcing SGI 2025! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu 37133
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 19/12/2024The comments made in the keynote were, I think pretty clearly, explicitly anti-Chinese. The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism. 030
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 25/11/2024I won’t be at SIGGRAPH Asia this year, but if you will, make sure to check out my colleagues’ and advisor’s excellent paper: www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao... It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.cs.yale.eduCurly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled HairIn Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024 0125
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 25/11/2024One thing I appreciate about removable (e.g. m.2) storage on laptops (and that annoys me about the industry shift to soldered storage) is seamless migration between devices. I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great. 140
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 17/11/2024I recently made a browser custom style to color-code my various Google accounts, and I find it very useful. 020
Alexa Schor @bsky.alexaschor.com · 17/11/2024I've been trying out dlang for research code instead of C++ lately, and it's been really nice -- faster compilation, built-in loop parallelization (like OpenMP), running arbitrary code at compile time. 110
![MOTIVATION
Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are at the core of Computer Graphics research. These chips are critical for rendering images, processing geometric data, and training machine learning models. Yet, the production and disposal of GPUs emits CO2 and results in toxic e-waste [1].
METHOD
We surveyed 888 papers presented at SIGGRAPH (premier conference for computer graphics research), from 2018 to 2024, and systematically gathered GPU models cited in the text.
We then contextualize the hardware reported in papers with publicly available data of consumers’ hardware [2, 3].
REFERENCES
[1] CRAWFORD, KATE. The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021.
[2] STEAM. Steam Hardware Survey. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
[3] BLENDER. Blender Open Data. https://opendata.blender.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpta66q3ots5ia23kvfzpu5r/bafkreidqnyftshkcmtpzqlxsknnvcn34xszafururgdixddtcuzrmwloqq)
