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Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics and Geometry Processing at Columbia University www.silviasellan.com

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06.03.2026 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I definitely would not say "reviewers agreed..." it seems a bit dangerous to put words on reviewers' mouths!

06.03.2026 14:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Btw you didn't have to quote me...

04.03.2026 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh my god it has happened!!!!!

04.03.2026 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Technical correspondence: comment on computer rendering of fractal stochastic models: Communications of the ACM: Vol 25, No 8

Technical Reading, Week 7: "Comment on Computer Rendering of Fractal Stochastic Models", Mandelbrot's angry letter to future Pixar folks about the crapola Genesis Sequence in Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan.

(His views, not mine.)

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

24.02.2026 01:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Haha, came here to post this, but you beat me to it!

21.02.2026 15:20 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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21.02.2026 15:00 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Yeah truly disgusting

05.02.2026 20:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

05.02.2026 19:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If someone refers an undergraduate student to a known sex offender for a job, and includes a comment about how good-looking the student is in their recommendation letter, that someone should never be allowed to teach undergraduate students ever again.

05.02.2026 19:29 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

!?!? book!?!?

13.01.2026 00:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same here....

08.01.2026 16:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Spanish degree worked like this too... though admittedly I hated those exams withe every fiber of my being

27.12.2025 14:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The CVPR review period is *Dec 18 to Jan 12*? Damn....

23.12.2025 14:33 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(FYI it seems like they no longer appear "by default" over abstracts, at least in the cases I've tested)

18.12.2025 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

16.12.2025 23:31 👍 646 🔁 335 💬 30 📌 90

This is really, really bad!

17.12.2025 16:41 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I was like "ah what a shame that I was not around for that!" and then I scrolled down lol

08.12.2025 17:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Writing code on a bumpy train and tried stabilizing the display image to my head -- it does (surprisingly) make things a bit easier to read but overall feels too weird to actually use.

25.11.2025 23:25 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

This is crazy haha I love it

26.11.2025 02:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WHAT!?

26.11.2025 02:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative

The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI, www.replicabilitystamp.org), a community-driven initiative to promote replicability in Graphics research, is seeking volunteers.

More details in the 'Volunteering' section of the home page.

21.11.2025 12:16 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Looks pretty! Hope you're happy there, Claas :)

05.11.2025 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What!??! That's crazy. Where were you when I was moving furniture??

30.10.2025 21:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A drawing of two clusters one cluster has a blonde girl with a ponytail in it, and the other cluster has a redhead a blonde and a brunette. This represents the scene and mean girls where Gretchen tells Regina George “you can’t sit with us!”

A drawing of two clusters one cluster has a blonde girl with a ponytail in it, and the other cluster has a redhead a blonde and a brunette. This represents the scene and mean girls where Gretchen tells Regina George “you can’t sit with us!”

“it’s October 3rd”

Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate

03.10.2025 18:15 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it ALT: a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it

cvoelcker.de/blog/2025/re...

I finally gave in and made a nice blog post about my most recent paper. This was a surprising amount of work, so please be nice and go read it!

02.10.2025 21:34 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
Flashed Face Distortion Effect
Flashed Face Distortion Effect YouTube video by de500ya

Best illusion I've seen in a while

24.09.2025 20:12 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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This is the metareview

18.09.2025 18:50 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 2
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How can one reconstruct the complete 3D interior of a wood block using only photos of its surfaces? 🪵
At SIGGRAPH'25 (Thursday!), Maria Larsson will present *Mokume*: a dataset of 190 diverse wood samples and a pipeline that solves this inverse texturing challenge. 🧵👇

08.08.2025 11:53 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1

My opinion: let people have fun! Life is too important to be taken seriously

23.07.2025 11:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0