Bing Xu

Research scientist @NVIDIA. PhD from @UCSanDiego. Real-time graphics and light transport. Also a painter ( Own opinions.

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

@andreintg wow looking great!

[Shlomi Steinberg @SteinbergShlomi]

https://t.co/0rKJP6lNj1

The recorded EUROGRAPHICS 2026 talk for our wave tracing paper. Very honored that this paper received the Günter Enderle Best Paper Honorable Mention award.

Collaboration with Matt Pharr (NVIDIA).

[Peter Shirley 🔮🛡 @Peter_shirley]

You can eat a good Utah teapot model? Here it is!!!! Thanks to @cem_yuksel https://t.co/uEhgFgre38

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

@ilirbeqiri @Blender 🙌🙌🙌. Me too.

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

Guard the tools to create high quality 3D. Otherwise we’ll end up in a recursive loop of low-quality input, low-quality output. Time for monthly donate

[Andrew Price @andrewpprice]

Last year, Autodesk made $315 million from mostly 3ds Max and Maya subscriptions. Over the same period, Blender made €3.1M, or 1% of Autodesk's earnings, despite having significantly more users.

This is the wrong way around.

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[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

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[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

@Drew_Gottlieb Exciting!

[Valve @valvesoftware]

Announcing: New @Steam Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: https://t.co/TUKoZdzn9B

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

@Peter_shirley Jordi Feliu first amazed me with all the boat paintings which are mostly in orange 😋 https://t.co/pjm2byxACc

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

@marcosalvi Really appreciate it! What a pleasure to work together! 😇😇 Always remembering “We’ll figure it out”.

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

By the way, we spent a lot of effort curating and will release a large-scale indoor dataset (∼14k
scenes) with diverse floorplans, geometries, and textures, serving as a benchmark for learning light transport.
Checkout the paper for further details! https://t.co/qW04w1NdLU

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

🌲Introducing our paper A generalizable light transport 3D embedding for Global Illumination https://t.co/Ui4GOmw8RH.

Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.

Building on the analogy of light transport operator and Attention, our fully scalable model learns a generalizable light transport 3D embedding that captures global illumination.
It takes as input the 3D scene assets—geometry, materials, and lighting represented as a point cloud—and encodes the complex light interaction into a 3D latent space, with codes anchored at the sampled scene points.

Remarkably, the model is independent of both viewpoint and resolution, enabling view-consistent rendering across diverse scenes. (See teaser and attention figure.)

(Our team work: with my mentor Marco @marcosalvi, labmates Mukund @mukundvermar, Cheng, NV folks Bart @BartWronsk, Lifan @winmad4869, and Tzu-Mao @tzumaoli & Ravi.)
🧵

[Bing Xu @_bingxu]

We demonstrate the versatility of our framework by reusing a shared pre-trained encoder while introducing task-specific decoders. Using the same model, we accurately estimate diffuse global illumination that generalizes across diverse indoor scenes. With limited fine-tuning on a switched decoder, we further demonstrate preliminary results on glossy materials by predicting spatial–directional incident radiance fields, and explore extensions to jumpstart path guiding for unbiased global illumination.

[Kostas Anagnostou @KostasAAA]

Physically Based Content https://t.co/neo7z6kRGf

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Paul Graham on why startups should deliberately choose hard problems:

[Wojciech Jarosz @wkjarosz]

HDRView 2.5 is available! Lots of new features, including support for DDS textures and animated GIF/JXL/PNG files, a new animation/playback mode, new blackpoint/offset option when tone mapping, and many UI improvements.
https://t.co/9HDyUb6FXp.

#HDR, #HDRI, #dearimgui

[Black Myth @BlackMythGame]

New Black Myth title—officially unveiled today!

No ghosts walked the earth till born of human heart;
Onstage and off, immortals fall to fiends—their perfected art.
Indoors and out, the judge is bound by the same household ties;
The sun is veiled, the moon unmoved—who decrees who lives and who dies?
I turn from worldly tangles and their codes, from glories smeared with sleight.
I raise my sword—I raise it to fight;
With it, I shall judge wrong and right!

Developed by Game Science, "Black Myth: Zhong Kui"—the second entry in the #BlackMyth series—was officially unveiled today with its first CG teaser trailer, and simultaneously debuted during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025.
This single-player action role-playing game draws its primary creative inspiration from the famed Chinese folk figure "Zhong Kui". As the project is still in early development, no in-game footage is available at this time.

Official website: https://t.co/WGgdIGIkXE

[mandy xia @mandyxmq]

🥻Our new #SIGGRAPH2025 paper introduces a novel pipeline that captures and digitizes physical threads, predicts fabric appearance from the weaving pattern, and aids designers in exploring new possibilities.
🔗https://t.co/yxGj3mHuY3