Alexandre Binninger

🚀 Founder of Boldbobbin. Ph.D. in Computer Graphics
❤️ Geometry, Embroidery, Calisthenics, Mandarin, Philosophy.
I'm a 🐸 living in 🇨🇭.

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Excited to share our @SIGGRAPH 2026 paper: "Gradient Descent in the ALPS: Abstracted Low-Poly Stylization and Fabrication" 🏔️
ALPS turns any image into clean, palette-constrained low-poly art that's provably valid for fabrication as embroidery, mosaics, and more. 🧵👇

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@BenjaminHouy @codefreechris @RealAstropulse Yeah I don't blame her. She wasn't disrespectful, just disoriented.

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

She asked me to cancel her subscription... but she hasn't subscribed to the PRO plan in the first place😅.

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@NIkronic Yeah ALPS is definitely in the continuity of SD-piXL, at least in spirit! Basically generating within constraints by using an optimization procedure rather than direct generation. Which is cool because we can steer the optimization in any desired direction!

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Excited to share our @SIGGRAPH 2026 paper: "Gradient Descent in the ALPS: Abstracted Low-Poly Stylization and Fabrication" 🏔️
ALPS turns any image into clean, palette-constrained low-poly art that's provably valid for fabrication as embroidery, mosaics, and more. 🧵👇

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@Eloise1041955 Te laisse pas décourager par ça. On est tous dans la même galère, bonne chance pour tes objectifs 😉.

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@RealAstropulse In her case she created an account and she received the welcome email. She also thanked me for answering.

I think in that case, it’s probably just someone a bit old who genuinely thought she was going to pay.

But thanks for the advice, I’ll keep an eye on it!

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@Harriwxu3 The phone 😭

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@mimosa_mimosa1 @KimiNussenbaum @mbompard Les boomers sont nés entre 1946 et 1965. La grande majorité n’a pas 80 ans.

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@lin898103 @siggraph 我很高兴你对这个研究论文感兴趣！ 😄

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Work with amazing collaborators @ IGL (ETH Zurich): Ruben Wiersma, myself, Peizhuo Li, Tanguy Magne, Annika Oehri, Aviv Segall, Danielle Luterbacher, Marcel Padilla, Jing Ren & Olga Sorkine-Hornung.
Yes, our WHOLE lab was involved in this paper!! Was a lot of fun to work on it 😁.
📄 Project: https://t.co/jVgePMyrLR
💻 Code: https://t.co/yVH34Irbw9

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Because the output is a valid, palette-constrained mesh, it maps directly to real-world crafts:
🧵 Embroidery
🪟 Wood mosaics / stained glass
🧶 Tapestry crocheting
🪡 Patchwork
🎨 Stencil printing

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Version 1.1.3 of Boldbobbin is out! Main new thing: auto-digitizing, which is basically an auto-trace.
Many improvements are planned to make it more specific to embroidery, but I'm happy with the current result. Works pretty neatly on logos!

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@jl_adra @TiboInShape Exactement ce que je pensais...

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

Happy French National Day!
(Image related to our next week's SIGGRAPH presentation 👀)

[Alexandre Binninger @AlexBinninger]

@RealAstropulse I starred the repo. Can't wait to look at it in more details when I have the time to :D