Two of our pa­pers were con­di­tion­ally ac­cep­ted to EG 2019: A Low-Di­men­sion­al Func­tion Space for Ef­fi­cient Spec­tral Up­sampling by Wen­zel Jakob and Jo­hannes Hanika, and Neur­al BTF Com­pres­sion and In­ter­pol­a­tion by Gilles Rain­er, Wen­zel Jakob, Ab­hijeet Ghosh, and Tim Weyrich.

We've cre­ated an in­ter­act­ive webpage that provides ac­cess to a com­pre­hens­ive ma­ter­i­al data­base ac­quired as part of the pro­ject An Ad­apt­ive Para­met­er­iz­a­tion for Ef­fi­cient Ma­ter­i­al Ac­quis­i­tion and Ren­der­ing by Jonath­an Dupuy and Wen­zel Jakob.

Guil­laume Loubet joined RGL today with a pres­ti­gi­ous EPFL-INRIA postdoc fel­low­ship. Wel­come, Guil­laume!

We've just re­leased a free on­line edi­tion of the Phys­ic­ally Based Ren­der­ing book! It fea­tures hy­per­linked cross-ref­er­en­cing, beau­ti­ful SVG fig­ures and equa­tions as well as in­ter­act­ive im­age com­par­is­ons. The de­tails of how all of this came to be are ex­plained in the pre­face to the on­line edi­tion.

Jonath­an Dupuy's and Wen­zel Jakob's pro­ject on ad­apt­ive para­met­er­iz­a­tions for ma­ter­i­al ac­quis­i­tion and ren­der­ing was con­di­tion­ally ac­cep­ted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2018. More de­tails will be pos­ted on the pro­ject site in the com­ing weeks.

Hannes Her­geth won this year's Ad­vanced Com­puter Graph­ics (CS440) com­pet­i­tion with a beau­ti­ful ren­der­ing of a ter­rari­um. Con­grat­u­la­tion, Hannes! See all sub­mis­sions on this page.

Tiz­ian Zelt­ner and Wen­zel Jakob's pro­ject on mod­el­ing and ren­der­ing an­iso­trop­ic lay­ers was ac­cep­ted to SIGGRAPH 2018. Get it here!

Wen­zel Jakob will present some of RGL's on­go­ing work on ma­ter­i­al mod­el­ing at FMX 2018.

EDIC Fel­lows Mer­lin Ni­mi­er-Dav­id and De­lio Vi­cini join RGL for semester pro­jects.

Since ver­sion 10.2, Modo uses our In­stant Meshes al­gorithm to im­ple­ment its auto­mat­ic re­to­po­logy fea­ture! The Foundry just re­leased an in­ter­view with Wen­zel Jakob (PDF) about this tech­nique and oth­er re­cent pro­jects in this area.

Dav­id Körner, PhD stu­dent at VISUS Stut­tgart, is join­ing RGL for pro­ject this Sum­mer & Fall. Wel­come, Dav­id!

Wen­zel Jakob will give a key­note talk at EPFL's 2017 Re­search Day Fron­ti­ers of Visu­al Com­put­ing on June 8.

This semester, a new ver­sion of the course CS 440: Ad­vanced Com­puter Graph­ics is offered for the first time.

The third edi­tion of Phys­ic­ally Based Ren­der­ing: From The­ory to Im­ple­ment­a­tion by Matt Pharr, Wen­zel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys is hot off the press and should be avail­able in stores mid-Novem­ber. El­sevi­er and Amazon's stores have di­git­al PDF & Kindle edi­tions that are avail­able as of now.

Chaos Group has re­leased a new ver­sion of their V-Ray ren­der­er, which for the first time in­cludes a Stochast­ic Mi­cro­flake re­flect­ance mod­el for ren­der­ing glit­ter and sparkle ef­fects. Their al­gorithm is based on the pa­per Dis­crete Stochast­ic Mi­cro­fa­cet Mod­els by Wen­zel Jakob, Mi­loš Hašan, Ling-Qi Yan, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Steve Marschner.

The course CS 328: Nu­mer­ic­al Meth­ods for Visu­al Com­put­ing is offered for the first time.

Call for present­a­tions: please get in touch to present in the Fall 2016 edi­tion of the Visu­al Com­put­ing Sem­in­ar.

EDIC Fel­lows Tiz­ian Zelt­ner, Michalina Pachol­ska, and An­dreas Finke join RGL for semester pro­jects.

Wen­zel Jakob re­ceives the Euro­graph­ics Young Re­search­er Award.

Wen­zel Jakob joins EPFL's School of Com­puter and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Sci­ences as a Ten­ure-Track As­sist­ant Pro­fess­or.