A person sliding a finger across a topographic map displayed on a touch screen can feel the bumps and curves of hills and valleys, despite the screen's smooth surface, with the aid of a novel ...

First of all, I'm using the Digital Differencial Analyzer Line algorithm to render a line, and then I'm calling my line drawing function to render the polygon. For some reason, though, my polygon is ...

An animation studio can spend days rendering a scene that features water, smoke and other substances that affect light (and its simulation) in complex ways. Now, a team led by Disney Research Zürich ...

I remember, when I was pursuing my MFA in writing, coming across a robot poet. It was an algorithm that used some rules of syntax and grammar, choosing words randomly, to generate prose and poetry.

Today I have a lot of opportunities to trace the display of smartphones and tablets to get information, but these days, an algorithm that obtains a "stereoscopic effect" by touching the screen "Touch ...

A screen grab from the ReSTIR video demonstration. As part of SIGGRAPH 2020, NVIDIA researchers (in collaboration with the Visual Computing Lab at Dartmouth College) recently released a paper ...

Are you having trouble distinguishing real life objects from digital creations in the latest movies and TV shows? Well, things are only going to get harder to determine from here on out, thanks to a ...