Omar Mena

[Omar Mena @whereismena]

It was an honor! :)

[Nanovisualization Group @nanovis_group]

@whereismena added Mixed Reality support to our MesoCraft tool (rapid modeling of mesoscale structures)! Now operational on the HoloLens 2.

Omar will be spending his summer working on personal graphics projects, and is looking for a Master's program.
https://t.co/Y8QD04ZrQ7

[MA5K CEO @Nobbie_OCs]

"Charge" -- by Juan Richard Feliz

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

I’ve seen a lot of the Toronto running community, but this guy wins.

[goosewin @Goosewin]

engineers together strong

[hectorvfx @hectorVFX]

VFX Ref

[Rassoul Edji @RassoulEdji]

For #ToyStory 4, instead of manually creating cobwebs for their Antique Mall environment, @Pixar created AI spiders which would weave realistic cobwebs for them like a real spider.

You can see the red dots which are the AI spiders as they weave cobwebs in real-time. This allowed the team to quickly and easily add cobwebs to their environments in a realistic manner.

Any cobwebs that required interaction with characters were created manually to ensure that they behaved as the animators expected.

The AI spiders were created by Hosuk Chang, a Sets Extensions Technical Director at Pixar.

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

currently obsessed with hud aesthetics and symbology
(images from internet)

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Here are the most FASCINATING facts I could find about Mexico:

1. Mexico is so huge it’s hard to comprehend. You can fit 30 European countries in Mexico and still have room to spare

[benji @benji__t]

here's a pixel perfect 3d renderer written with no libraries in c and opengl (ok, and imgui).

been a while since i posted anything i programmed on here. i wrote this back in january and showed @zizhen96 but never did anything with it.

1/3

[Omar Mena @whereismena]

@katiahuertac sabiduría

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

We just had one of the biggest days in AI.

Huge developments from Sam Altman/GPT-5, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Cohere, Andrej Karpathy, Nous, and ElevenLabs.

Here's EVERYTHING you need to know:

[murat 🍥 @mayfer]

all current VR headsets have fixed focal points
until this changes, no headset will replace screens. too straining

magic leap was supposed to solve it with silicon photonics that redirect light rays to control focal points, but it never materialized

https://t.co/bQJkOmXJVE

[Omar Mena @whereismena]

Why should this time be any different?

[Grey (@greyy.bsky.social) @A_Grey_Person]

Advertise your account with one animation

[Sarah @moonyriott]

my husband and his work buddies have been arguing about this photo for an hour

[Cem Yuksel @cem_yuksel]

SIGGRAPH is now on #twitch!
It is currently streaming past Real-Time Live! shows: https://t.co/sdbAHJFiy6

#SIGGRAPH2023 Real-Time Live! will have a free live stream on August 8 at 6 PM PDT.

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

some Reddit users have got Cyberpunk 2077 running on an M1 MacBook Pro thanks to Apple's new Proton-like tool. Interesting stuff! https://t.co/EjoLvgkUWT

[STYLIZED STATION @StylizedStation]

Ever wondered how clouds work in video games?

They may be an afterthought for gamers, but creating clouds is one of the most exciting and complex topics in game art.

We have a lot fo talk about, so lets get right into it.

Another massive 🧵

[STYLIZED STATION @StylizedStation]

Ever wondered how grass is made in video games?

Making grass may seem simple, but theres actually a lof of history and technology behind this surprisingly complex topic.

Another big thread 🧵