I'm happy to hear that my diversity plug was obvious enough.

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...

Code and other information coming soon; for now you can read the paper here:

www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Pro...

And find some supplemental information—including pseudocode—here:

www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Pro...