Pencil-style experiment following this earlier one with structural reference via line-art ControlNet, essentially drawing portraits of one family member via the artistic style of another.
2025-01-29
2025-01-26
Single-authored SIGGRAPH submission from a recent collaborator whom I have yet to meet in person
I just looked at a single-authored SIGGRAPH submission from a recent collaborator (with a first-authored SIGGRAPH paper before even getting into a graduate degree program), intentionally after the deadline to ensure that I wouldn’t be tempted to contribute anything to his solo effort (as I just did) before the review process.
I like the work and hope it will get accepted so that we could finally meet in person at the conference.
(Hopefully the Canadian visa would be easier to obtain than the US equivalence, as otherwise he would not have any co-author to present the paper.)
2025-01-25
Spilling tortilla chips
She spilled the bag of tortilla chips all over the place.
He sighed, and later realized that he should have made a humorous comment.
2025-01-20
The chart of everything
The most profound chart I have seen for a while; see the paper (and video presentation) here.
2025-01-18
Sparkling wine bottles
Walked by this liquor store in TPE terminal 2 and found interesting these wine bottles as lampshades.
2025-01-16
The devil sheds Prada
I used to concentrate my paper submissions to a venue that gained prestige by accepting only the most novel ideas, but its prestige has been diluted with more incremental works over the years to the point that it has higher acceptance rate than alternatives (in an overlapping but different field) that I now submit to more.
Train station bench sleeper
What to do with about 10 minutes before the train arrived?
Adding some colors, even just rough regions, can greatly enhance the visual appeal of a sketch.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/217024435/PortraitsMotoGStylus2025/modules/1236093195
2025-01-13
2025-01-10
Baby driver
Bumped into this movie on a long flight as I was looking for something light and entertaining amidst external noise and internal drowsiness. It turned out to be much better than I thought, essentially a (rap) musical wrapped in actions instead of a mindless action flick.
A good movie is like a novel research project; one never knows apriori what it really is about or feels like, not from the title, synopsis, or even the trailer, until completing it.