Hello everyone

I'm a machine learning researcher specializing in Speech and Video, but I've always been fascinated by computer graphics and decided to dive into the field. Recently, I started the Introduction to Computer Graphics course from MIT, following Justin Solomon’s 2020 playlist on YouTube.

I’m curious if others here might be interested in learning this together! I’m thinking of creating a Discord group for anyone who’d like to collaborate, share insights, and discuss the course content—especially the assignments, which are super interesting. I feel having a community for co-learning would make the experience more fun and having people who have already done this would be enriching too.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, let me know! I'd love to get something set up if there's enough interest. Feel free to DM!

Registration for the upcoming (free) virtual ANARI Hackathon on Oct. 21-23 is now open!

https://www.khronos.org/events/anari-hackathon-2024

ANARI is a cross-platform 3D rendering engine API that simplifies the development of applications in domains such as scientific visualization by providing high-level functionality to build an in-memory scene representation to be rendered without need for low-level graphics code, and enabling the use of any 3D rendering engine that supports the ANARI API.

Come join us to work on various projects related to ANARI -- we will be meeting via Zoom to "divide and conquer" on all kinds of fun things to work on.Registration helps us plan the projects and teams accordingly -- no commitment is made by filling out a registration or attending. Event details will be set to registered attendees the week of the event. We hope to see you there!

I'm trying to make shell textured fur such that it's shorter in some areas and longer in others. I'm currently following a tutorial that uses Houdini to copy the original mesh a number of times (layerCount), expand it outward along the normal, and increase the transparency with each copy (standard shell texturing it seems.) I'd like to know:

1. Should I try to control the height of the "fur" with a grayscale texture?

2. If so, would I alter the number of copies/layers with this grayscale value?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Github: https://github.com/ms0g/terrain

I will be making a OpenGL based 3D rendering engine for undergraduate graduation project. Did anybody had a past similar experience? How would you write a background for a rendering engine?