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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 21/11/2025

The Mountain asked for a pic with me! Couldn’t say no! #SC25

Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 16/11/2025

Fresh off the plane in St. Louis and ready to dive into the #SC25 whirlwind this week! If you’re around and want to chat all things #HPC, visual magic, or just share a beer and a few good stories, let’s make it happen. Feel free to ping me if you’re around. Looking forward to it!

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 14/05/2025

Honored to be named a Vanguard of HPC + AI by insideHPC. At Argonne’s ALCF, I get to explore how humans and machines collaborate—through XR, in-situ viz, and tools that bring data to life. Dancing on the bleeding edge of science—and loving every step. insidehpc.com/2025/05/vang...

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 25/03/2025

New week, new magic from OpenAI: GPT-4o can now create and edit images right inside ChatGPT. And guess what? It finally gets text right—no more blurry fonts or accidental gibberish. Just describe what you imagine, and it brings it to life. 💫 I gave it a try—check out what I made below! 👇

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 10/12/2024

I finally got to play a little bit with #sora. I asked it to create a 5 second video of the work that I do (scientific visualization on front of a big tiled display). Here is what it came up with

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 03/12/2024

Playing around with @adobelive.bsky.social Project Neo. First image is the 3D model (took me ~5 minutes to model). Next two images are generated using GenAI. The entire process took me less than 10 minutes. Insane. #adobe #rendering #GenAI

A minimalistic design featuring three smooth, white, donut-shaped rings threaded onto a horizontal white rod against a light green background. The rings have a clean and modern aesthetic, with subtle shading creating a soft, polished appearance.

A close-up of three golden-brown sesame-covered koulouri (a traditional Greek bread ring) hanging on a wooden rod. The background shows an out-of-focus scenic city view near a body of water under a bright blue sky.

Three golden, sesame-coated koulouri (a traditional Greek bread ring) hanging on a bamboo rod. The image captures the warm glow of a sunset or sunrise with a blurred city and waterfront in the background, highlighting the vibrant golden tones of the simit.

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 02/12/2024

Have been experimenting with ANARI and VTK, and creating some test scenes and renders. Here is a variation of the Cornell Box using VTK. Rendered with #ANARI and #OSPRay. #raytracing

A rendered 3D scene featuring a simple room with gray walls, a large rectangular white block on the left, a smaller green cube with a red side in the foreground, and a reflective metallic sphere resting on top of the cube. The lighting creates soft shadows and highlights, emphasizing the materials and shapes in the scene.

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 24/11/2024

Spotted: The ultimate ‘ride or die’—rolling in style, even to the afterlife.

A black hearse carriage, traditionally used to carry coffins, is being towed by a trailer hitch instead of horses. The carriage is positioned on a street, surrounded by cars and urban scenery, with a cloudy sky and autumn-colored trees in the background. The image is taken from inside a car, with part of the side mirror and interior visible.

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 20/11/2024

Explore the scientific visualizations created by the Visualization team at Argonne National Laboratory, featured at the Art of HPC exhibit during #SC24. #HPC #DataVisualization #Supercomputing

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 19/11/2024

I asked ChatGPT to make a photo of what it thinks my life looks like based on everything it knows about me. This is what I got, and damn, I was surprised! #chatgpt

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 18/11/2024

Our paper, "Bridging Gaps in Simulation Analysis through a General Purpose, Bidirectional Steering Interface with Ascent," has won Best Paper at #ISAV24🏆 Huge congratulations to our brilliant lead author, PhD student @siramok.bsky.social, whose hard work and dedication made this possible. #SC24

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 17/11/2024

Welcome to all the new faces! I’m a Computer Scientist at Argonne and Adjunct Research Professor at UIC. I write code for supercomputers to render massive datasets and create Digital Twins. Into Computer Graphics, Vis, Ray Tracing, HPC, AR/VR, or tech? Let’s connect—I’d love to hear your ideas!

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 26/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,911,739!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,911,739, Victor Mateevitsi ‪@vmateevitsi.com‬, joined on Nov 9, 2023"

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 29/05/2024

🎨🌈 Join us tonight for the opening of "Fleurs de Macadam," a captivating two-person exhibition by Like Queer Animals, featuring the combined brilliance of visual artist Jessie Mott and queer scholar Chantal Nadeau, curated by Vasia Rigou

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 21/01/2024

Copilot AI is now the new clippy!

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 09/01/2024

One of my professional goals for 2024 is to improve the rendering realism and quality of the scientific visualizations that I make. I started experimenting with lights, which elevated the overall quality to the next level. Here are a few renders with Houdini and Karma. 3D model: polyhaven.com

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 08/01/2024

Apple Vision Pro preorders open on January 19th. February 2nd device available at the Apple Store! Can’t wait!

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 04/01/2024

The first tracked VR head-mounted display, the 'The Sword of Damocles' was developed in 1968 by Ivan Sutherland. It was rudimentary and tethered to the ceiling, but it paved the way for the immersive VR experiences we enjoy today. 📸 Sutherland 🧪

Ivan Sutherland wearing the ‘Sword of Damocles’

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 15/12/2023

In 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois, a visionary in data visualization, presented a series of striking charts at the Paris Exposition, visually advocating for African-American progress. Du Bois’ work challenged stereotypes and provided a powerful counter-narrative to prevailing racist attitudes of the time. 🧪

Close up on Atlanta University's "City and Rural Population. 1890" visualization

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 14/12/2023

1854: John Snow’s cholera map changed epidemiology forever! By mapping cholera cases in London, he traced the outbreak to a contaminated water pump, a landmark moment in public health, and pioneered a visual approach to understanding disease spread. This is where data met detective work! 🧪

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Victor Mateevitsi @vmateevitsi.com · 07/12/2023

Throwback to one of the earliest known data visualizations: Charles Minard’s 1869 flow map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. 🧪

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