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Approximate Subdivision Shading

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Ignacio Castaño / 0 Comment

Subdivision Shading is a new approach to compute normal fields of subdivision surfaces that was presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. It’s a very simple idea that pr...

Coding

Watertight Texture Sampling

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Ignacio Castaño / 0 Comment

One of the problems when implementing displacement mapping is dealing with texture seams. Texture seams are discontinuities in the parameterization. These disco...

Personal

The foie gras parable

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Ignacio Castaño / 0 Comment

I loved this talk from Blue Hill’s Chef Dan Barber. I’m not convinced that what the organic/ethical/slow food movement advocates is the most sustainable way of ...

Coding

Gamefest Presentations

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Ignacio Castaño / 2 Comments

I just realized that Microsoft recently released the Gamefest presentations, and that most of them are accompanied with audio recordings, including my talk abou...

Coding

nvidia-widgets

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Ignacio Castaño / 0 Comment

I just published the immediate mode user interface (IMGUI) toolkit that we are using in our latest OpenGL SDK examples. The purpose of the SDK examples is to sh...

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Moving

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Ignacio Castaño / 1 Comment

My better half has been accepted to UC Davis, and we’ll be moving there in the next few days. We are pretty excited; I think Davis will be a better place to rai...