This would be exactly 10 years ago!
#BackToTheFuture

I am boycotting #SIGGRAPHAsia 2026 because it will be in Malaysia, where there are serious safety concerns for the LGBTQ+ members of our community, thereby excluding them. I will not attend, submit my work to, or perform any reviews for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026.

Yet, I'm excited about #SIGGRAPHAsia 2025!

At #SIGGRAPH2021, @ankachen.bsky.social presented a method that can capture over 1000 unique points on the human body using only standard cameras and passive lights, without relying on temporal tracking or prior human body models.

Project page: ankachan.github.io/Projects/Moc...

At #SIGGRAPH2023, @ankachen.bsky.social presented a method for efficiently computing the exact shortest path to the boundary of a mesh from a given internal point in the presence of self-intersections.

Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

The Vertex Block Descent (VBD) method @ankachen.bsky.social presented at #SIGGRAPH2024 is a new unconditionally-stable physics solver that has better parallelism and faster convergence than alternative methods.

Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

The Offset Geometric Contact (OGC) method @ankachen.bsky.social will present at #SIGGRAPH2025 allows guaranteed penetration-free simulation of codimensional objects with minimal computational overhead.

Project page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

Join me in congratulating @ankachen.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Award at #SCA2025:
computeranimation.org/program.html...

Anka's dissertation includes four major contributions to the field of computer animation (see the thread for details).

Our #HPG2025 paper "Arches: A Cycle Level Simulator for Exploring Massively Parallel Ray Tracing Architectures" will be presented by my student Jacob Haydel in a few hours. I will post the video when it is ready.

More info and source code on the project page:
graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...

Our #SIGGRAPH2025 paper "Augmented Vertex Block Descent" presents an extremely fast and stable physics solver with hard constraints for handling joints and collisions.

The project page has a 2D demo with source code and more details:
graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro...