Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I reformatted the CogSci 2026 schedule in a way that works somewhat better for me on my old and slow phone. Sharing in case anyone else might find it helpful… cs.stanford.edu/~kach/cogsci... (Inspired by @keenancrane.bsky.social, who did this for SIGGRAPH this year!) 061
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Our interdisciplinary graphics/cogsci workshop will have its third(!) annual meeting at SIGGRAPH this summer! 050
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I wrote a tiny LaTeX package that creates a wordcount environment. You can use it to auto-print word counts, when paring down text to meet limits. For example: \begin{wordcount}{\abstractcount} This is my abstract. \end{wordcount} \textbf{Word count:} \abstractcount % prints 4 Source code below… 1279
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I am absolutely *delighted* to learn that @cambridgegis.bsky.social maintains a publicly accessible database of nearly 50,000 trees in Cambridge, MA, complete with information on location, species, ownership, and more. My personal website now offers you a tree-of-the-day to visit on your daily walk! 0100
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I just had a lovely morning teaching memo with Lio Wong at #COSMOS2025 in Tokyo! Charley and Wataru have put together an absolutely *fantastic* summer school. Fascinating talks, delightful people… and excellent location. I feel so lucky to be here. If you ever get a chance to attend COSMOS, take it! 0114
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Three years ago, at SIGGRAPH '22 in Vancouver, I took this picture of a pole casting two shadows: one blue and one yellow, from yellow and blue streetlamps respectively. Today, back in Vancouver for SIGGRAPH '25, I saw the same effect in sunlight! How can one sun cast two colored shadows? Hint in 🧵 160
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 05/08/2025While I was in Rotterdam for CogSci '24, I visited the Escher Museum and fell in love with his work all over again. Now, a year later, I'm delighted by this SIGGRAPH paper led by my friend Ana! (Say what you will about the technical details, you must admit that we came up with the ~perfect~ title.) 0165
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Thanks to a rogue Partiful RSVP form at #cogsci2025, I seem to have collected an unexpectedly large dataset (N=197) of whether cognitive scientists think the mind is composed of innate, domain-specialized modules… 0386
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I'm excited to give a ~mysterious new talk~ at this very special SIGGRAPH workshop on art & cognitive science! See you soon in Vancouver. :) 0101
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 18/07/2025As always, CogSci has a fantastic lineup of workshops this year. An embarrassment of riches! Still deciding which to pick? If you are interested in building computational models of social cognition, I hope you consider joining @maxkw.bsky.social, @dae.bsky.social, and me for a crash course on memo! 1226
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 11/06/2025If you're here at RLDM today, you are invited to check out this exciting workshop on social cognition organized by Joe Barnby and Amrita Lamba! I'm giving a talk on programming languages for theory-of-mind at 11:30. Here's the schedule: sites.google.com/view/rldm202... @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social 030
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Here is a little inverse graphics puzzle: The no-parking sign on my side of Vassar Street casts its shadow in a dramatically different direction from the leafless tree on the far side of the street — almost 90º apart. How is that possible, given that the sun casts parallel rays? (Hints in thread.) 220
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Last night, I realized that a workshop's submission portal only accepted plain text copy-pasted into a text box. Instead of manually de-TeX-ifying my beautifully-formatted PDF (5-minute job), I decided to work out how to do it automatically with pandoc (1-hour research project). Here's what I found… 180
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Graphics has long studied how to make: (1) realistic images 📷 (2) non-photorealistic images ✍️ (3) realistic sounds 🎤 What about (4) "non-phono-realistic" sounds? What could that even mean? Next week at SIGGRAPH Asia, MIT undergrad Matt Caren will present our proposal… 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2409.13507 24511
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Tinkering with "starter packs" on this website. Here is a starter pack for SIGGRAPH researchers and more broadly the graphics research community! 🫖 (If I missed you or someone you know, please leave me a message and I'll update the list as soon as I can!) go.bsky.app/9bXBV8A 141
Reposted by Kartik ChandraKushin Mukherjee @kushinm.bsky.social · 30/05/2024Hi Bluesky! Crossposting the announcement of a new summer workshop on the emerging interface between cognitive science 🧠 and computer graphics 🫖 spearheaded by @kartikchandra.bsky.social! We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to all! 🧶 152
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 10/12/2023Hi friends— I'm packing for NeurIPS this morning and reflecting on how I find AI conferences to be daunting; overwhelming, even. It helps to have plans with friends! If you'd like to catch up next week, please send me an email. I would love to take a walk with you in New Orleans. :) 010
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 28/11/2023Last night in Cambridge I took these two pictures of the same tree. To me there is something almost overwhelmingly beautiful about how from picture one to two, the branches appear to wrap around the streetlight and make it a glinted wooden halo. (Why does this happen? The Fresnel effect, I think…) 030
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 27/11/2023One of the joys of studying visual perception is that you can't stop seeing "seeing" everywhere you go. Here I am on an American Airlines flight wondering if there are any T's hidden among those L's. (Figure from Bergen & Landy, 1991). 140
Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Hello, Bluesky! I am cautiously optimistic about you! (Sorry my background image has such a distinctly non-blue sky!) 060
