Adam Ce
@adamcelarek.bsky.social
PhD student at cg.TuWien.ac.at, maintainer AlpineMaps.org.
Interests: physically based rendering, Gaussian splatting, 3D mapping, hiking, skiing and paragliding.
Interests: physically based rendering, Gaussian splatting, 3D mapping, hiking, skiing and paragliding.
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📢 Looking for 1 PhD student (3 years) in Vienna!
We have an open position for someone to tackle MASSIVE 3D datasets and turn them into instant visuals for display, editing, and interacting!
applications.cg.tuwien.ac.at/node/5
We have an open position for someone to tackle MASSIVE 3D datasets and turn them into instant visuals for display, editing, and interacting!
applications.cg.tuwien.ac.at/node/5
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📢 Looking for 1 PhD student (3 years) in Vienna!
We have an open position for someone to tackle MASSIVE 3D datasets and turn them into instant visuals for display, editing, and interacting!
applications.cg.tuwien.ac.at/node/5
We have an open position for someone to tackle MASSIVE 3D datasets and turn them into instant visuals for display, editing, and interacting!
applications.cg.tuwien.ac.at/node/5
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How do people with kids get anything done, ever?
I’m serious, whenever I see someone roughly my age accomplish anything these days, first thing I do is check whether they have kids. Written a book? Cool. Written a book *while having kids*? You’re a GOD.
I’m serious, whenever I see someone roughly my age accomplish anything these days, first thing I do is check whether they have kids. Written a book? Cool. Written a book *while having kids*? You’re a GOD.
October 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
How do people with kids get anything done, ever?
I’m serious, whenever I see someone roughly my age accomplish anything these days, first thing I do is check whether they have kids. Written a book? Cool. Written a book *while having kids*? You’re a GOD.
I’m serious, whenever I see someone roughly my age accomplish anything these days, first thing I do is check whether they have kids. Written a book? Cool. Written a book *while having kids*? You’re a GOD.
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My grandmother took a tougher stance on TV volume with my grandfather than Trump did on Russia penetrating NATO airspace with drones.
September 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My grandmother took a tougher stance on TV volume with my grandfather than Trump did on Russia penetrating NATO airspace with drones.
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Slurm for scheduling busy families with kids on weekends: parents submit their jobs/chores/activities requests (individual or collective) and they are queued based on priority, duration, calendars, karma, etc.
August 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Slurm for scheduling busy families with kids on weekends: parents submit their jobs/chores/activities requests (individual or collective) and they are queued based on priority, duration, calendars, karma, etc.
@derstandard.at ist eigentlich bekannt, dass die Webseite im Firefox mobile nicht mehr funktioniert? sie ladet ständig neu, was dann auch Interaktion verhindert.
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
@derstandard.at ist eigentlich bekannt, dass die Webseite im Firefox mobile nicht mehr funktioniert? sie ladet ständig neu, was dann auch Interaktion verhindert.
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Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
dailynous.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.
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At SIGGRAPH 2025, Intel, Disney, & Chaos are doing a course on the nitty gritty details of implementing path guiding methods in 3 production renderers: Cycles, Hyperion, and Corona. I helped write the course notes: 80 pages of great stuff! Coming soon.
s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
July 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
At SIGGRAPH 2025, Intel, Disney, & Chaos are doing a course on the nitty gritty details of implementing path guiding methods in 3 production renderers: Cycles, Hyperion, and Corona. I helped write the course notes: 80 pages of great stuff! Coming soon.
s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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It’s fun when there’s a major geopolitical event that features zero good guys
June 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It’s fun when there’s a major geopolitical event that features zero good guys
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The reason Elon made Grok in the first place was because he assumed OpenAI was turning the secret “woke” dial up too high and small parameter tweaks could make it right-wing. Now he has realized the only way to get the AI to agree with him is to lobotomize it by rewriting the entire training set.
“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
June 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The reason Elon made Grok in the first place was because he assumed OpenAI was turning the secret “woke” dial up too high and small parameter tweaks could make it right-wing. Now he has realized the only way to get the AI to agree with him is to lobotomize it by rewriting the entire training set.
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![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
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Here's a recording of my 3DV keynote from a couple weeks ago. If you're already familiar with my research, I recommend skipping to ~22 minutes in where I get to the fun stuff (whether or not 3D has been bitter-lesson'ed by video generation models)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF...
Radiance Fields and the Future of Generative Media
YouTube video by Jon Barron
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here's a recording of my 3DV keynote from a couple weeks ago. If you're already familiar with my research, I recommend skipping to ~22 minutes in where I get to the fun stuff (whether or not 3D has been bitter-lesson'ed by video generation models)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF...
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SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN
The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱
All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊
Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠
📷 Pomona
The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱
All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊
Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠
📷 Pomona
May 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN
The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱
All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊
Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠
📷 Pomona
The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱
All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊
Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠
📷 Pomona
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Fantastic "Deep Dive into LLMs" video by @karpathy.bsky.social, a high-level but detailed explainer of how LLMs are trained and fine-tuned, and what they subsequently are good and bad at. Highly recommended for technical and not-super-technical audiences alike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fantastic "Deep Dive into LLMs" video by @karpathy.bsky.social, a high-level but detailed explainer of how LLMs are trained and fine-tuned, and what they subsequently are good and bad at. Highly recommended for technical and not-super-technical audiences alike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
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queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fast3R: Towards 3D Reconstruction of 1000+ Images in One Forward Pass
Jianing Yang, Alexander Sax, Kevin J. Liang, @mikaelhenaff.bsky.social, Hao Tang, Ang Cao, Joyce Chai, Franziska Meier, Matt Feiszli
tl;dr: multi-view version of DUSt3R; over 1000 images
arxiv.org/abs/2501.13928
Jianing Yang, Alexander Sax, Kevin J. Liang, @mikaelhenaff.bsky.social, Hao Tang, Ang Cao, Joyce Chai, Franziska Meier, Matt Feiszli
tl;dr: multi-view version of DUSt3R; over 1000 images
arxiv.org/abs/2501.13928
January 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Fast3R: Towards 3D Reconstruction of 1000+ Images in One Forward Pass
Jianing Yang, Alexander Sax, Kevin J. Liang, @mikaelhenaff.bsky.social, Hao Tang, Ang Cao, Joyce Chai, Franziska Meier, Matt Feiszli
tl;dr: multi-view version of DUSt3R; over 1000 images
arxiv.org/abs/2501.13928
Jianing Yang, Alexander Sax, Kevin J. Liang, @mikaelhenaff.bsky.social, Hao Tang, Ang Cao, Joyce Chai, Franziska Meier, Matt Feiszli
tl;dr: multi-view version of DUSt3R; over 1000 images
arxiv.org/abs/2501.13928
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New dithering method dropped
I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...
Source repository:
github.com/runevision/D...
#gamedev #vfx
I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...
Source repository:
github.com/runevision/D...
#gamedev #vfx
January 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New dithering method dropped
I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...
Source repository:
github.com/runevision/D...
#gamedev #vfx
I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...
Source repository:
github.com/runevision/D...
#gamedev #vfx
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Was it sabotage or an accident when critical infrastructure was destroyed in the Baltic Sea by ships dragging their anchor across the seabed? I have collected some thoughts in this Q&A style blog post.
Sabotage or accidental anchor dragging in the Baltic Sea?
I have collected some answers to the basic questions raised by the recent discussion about whether the cable cutting in the Baltic Sea has been accidental or sabotage. This discussion was sparked by a...
www.logicofwar.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Was it sabotage or an accident when critical infrastructure was destroyed in the Baltic Sea by ships dragging their anchor across the seabed? I have collected some thoughts in this Q&A style blog post.
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RDG-GS: Relative Depth Guidance with Gaussian Splatting for Real-time Sparse-View 3D Rendering
Chenlu Zhan, Yufei Zhang, Yu Lin, Gaoang Wang, Hongwei Wang
tl;dr: in title
arxiv.org/abs/2501.11102
Chenlu Zhan, Yufei Zhang, Yu Lin, Gaoang Wang, Hongwei Wang
tl;dr: in title
arxiv.org/abs/2501.11102
January 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
RDG-GS: Relative Depth Guidance with Gaussian Splatting for Real-time Sparse-View 3D Rendering
Chenlu Zhan, Yufei Zhang, Yu Lin, Gaoang Wang, Hongwei Wang
tl;dr: in title
arxiv.org/abs/2501.11102
Chenlu Zhan, Yufei Zhang, Yu Lin, Gaoang Wang, Hongwei Wang
tl;dr: in title
arxiv.org/abs/2501.11102
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You cannot get physically-based rendering right without understanding radiometry. My new blog post explains it all, relying on familiar concepts from rendering algorithms as much as possible.
Part 2 will come next week.
momentsingraphics.de/Radiometry1B...
Part 2 will come next week.
momentsingraphics.de/Radiometry1B...
January 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You cannot get physically-based rendering right without understanding radiometry. My new blog post explains it all, relying on familiar concepts from rendering algorithms as much as possible.
Part 2 will come next week.
momentsingraphics.de/Radiometry1B...
Part 2 will come next week.
momentsingraphics.de/Radiometry1B...
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gpu texture compression primer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-H...
GPU Texture Compression
YouTube video by Marmoset
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:11 PM
gpu texture compression primer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-H...
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Lihan Jiang, Kerui Ren, Mulin Yu, Linning Xu, Junting Dong, Tao Lu, Feng Zhao, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai
Horizon-GS: Unified 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial-to-Ground Scenes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01745
Horizon-GS: Unified 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial-to-Ground Scenes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01745
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Lihan Jiang, Kerui Ren, Mulin Yu, Linning Xu, Junting Dong, Tao Lu, Feng Zhao, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai
Horizon-GS: Unified 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial-to-Ground Scenes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01745
Horizon-GS: Unified 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Aerial-to-Ground Scenes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01745
A Statistical Approach to Monte Carlo Denoising;
TL;DR: Statistics made during path tracing including materials etc are used to achieve better denoising than neural network based solutions. No hallucinations, no problems if the training set is small, application to MIS.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
TL;DR: Statistics made during path tracing including materials etc are used to achieve better denoising than neural network based solutions. No hallucinations, no problems if the training set is small, application to MIS.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
A Statistical Approach to Monte Carlo Denoising | SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers
dl.acm.org
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
A Statistical Approach to Monte Carlo Denoising;
TL;DR: Statistics made during path tracing including materials etc are used to achieve better denoising than neural network based solutions. No hallucinations, no problems if the training set is small, application to MIS.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
TL;DR: Statistics made during path tracing including materials etc are used to achieve better denoising than neural network based solutions. No hallucinations, no problems if the training set is small, application to MIS.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't think you'd get to the quality of specular reflections of something like dorverbin.github.io/nerf-casting/ with a rasterization-based approach like 3DGS.
The speed benefits of 3DGS are of course spectacular, but NeRF is still king w.r.t. image quality.
The speed benefits of 3DGS are of course spectacular, but NeRF is still king w.r.t. image quality.
NeRF-Casting
NeRF-Casting
dorverbin.github.io
December 2, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't think you'd get to the quality of specular reflections of something like dorverbin.github.io/nerf-casting/ with a rasterization-based approach like 3DGS.
The speed benefits of 3DGS are of course spectacular, but NeRF is still king w.r.t. image quality.
The speed benefits of 3DGS are of course spectacular, but NeRF is still king w.r.t. image quality.
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Easier, yes, but also less "physically based." Here's @jonbarron.bsky.social on some of the recent work to use raytracing with Gaussian Splatting. youtu.be/h9vq_65eDas?...
Radiance Fields and The Future with Jon Barron
YouTube video by View Dependent
youtu.be
December 2, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Easier, yes, but also less "physically based." Here's @jonbarron.bsky.social on some of the recent work to use raytracing with Gaussian Splatting. youtu.be/h9vq_65eDas?...