Digital Geometer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. There are four lights.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/
Keenan Crane
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P.S. 1/3 was meant to be 6/3. No idea what happened there.
Keenan Crane
⚠️Warning that, in violation of PI-law, there will be no sweeping vision statements, unsubstantiated claims about the future of AI, nor a rapid-fire summary of 18 different projects from my lab. Just a good old fashioned technical talk with equations, theorems, and nice pictures.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
The second best time is three hours before the paper deadline.
“Fair dice” might make you think of perfect cubes with equal frequencies (say, 1/6 on all sides) 🎲
But “fair” really just means you get the frequencies you expect (say, 1/4, 1/4 & 1/2)
We can now design fair dice with any frequencies—and any shape! 🐉
hbaktash.github.io/projects/put...
Giving a talk in the
@Stanford
SCIEN seminar this Wednesday (1/3) at 4:30pm:
scien.stanford.edu/index.php/ev...
The topic is “normal coordinates”: a shape representation little-used outside of mathematics—but which turns out to have nice applications in geometry processing & learning.
So, we'll start out in 2D, introduce the basics, and touch on two past tasks where normal coordinates have proven useful:
Robust surface parameterization: cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Pro...
Surface triangulation with quality guarantees: markjgillespie.com/Research/int...
Nicely produced clip by Matt Wein and Marylee Williams about our recent dice design project at @scsatcmu.bsky.social and @adobe.com
youtube.com/shorts/jD0ag...
🎲 🎥 🐉 🪙
The wonderful Nicole Feng, defending her PhD thesis on generalized distances & winding numbers. So proud of her, and very excited about all the places she will go.
nzfeng.github.io
(Also that text outline shaded by the surface is some galaxy brain diagramming. 🤯🧠🌌)
The talk builds up to our recent work on #SubgridMarchingTetrahedra, a marching cubes replacement to appear at this year's SIGGRAPH:
cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Pro...
But the goal is to start with a decent tutorial that really explains some of the basics (not just an ad for our paper).
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Fantastic video from @SciShow about our work that turns any shape into fair dice:
youtu.be/-gp7AbYD9NI?...
Get all the details on Hossein Baktash’s page here: hbaktash.github.io
