Alexa Schor
@bsky.alexaschor.com
Computer graphics PhD student @Yale. she/her 🏳️🌈
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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.
When I was young, I started reading programming books before I was familiar with the English prefix “pseudo-“, so I kept seeing algorithms “in pseudocode” and thought “wow, I should learn that language instead, it seems so easy”
Submitting a motion to change ‘vibe coding’ to ‘pseudoprogramming’
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
When I was young, I started reading programming books before I was familiar with the English prefix “pseudo-“, so I kept seeing algorithms “in pseudocode” and thought “wow, I should learn that language instead, it seems so easy”
I spent a few minutes trying to parse this NYC parking sign yesterday -- the best I can figure is that non-commercial parking is only allowed in January?
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I spent a few minutes trying to parse this NYC parking sign yesterday -- the best I can figure is that non-commercial parking is only allowed in January?
I won’t be at SIGGRAPH this year, but if you are, make sure to check out my colleagues’ amazing work!
4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a
3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p
Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p
Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a
Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am
Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25
4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a
3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p
Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p
Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a
Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am
Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25
August 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I won’t be at SIGGRAPH this year, but if you are, make sure to check out my colleagues’ amazing work!
4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a
3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p
Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p
Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a
Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am
Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25
4D+ Deformables: Mon 11:45a
3D Head Generation: Mon 2:40p
Countering Racial Bias BoF: Tue 5p
Teaching Game Engines: Wed 11:07a
Predicting Fabric Appearance: Thu 9:20am
Full list: bit.ly/yalesg25
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Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...
August 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...
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🥻Our new #SIGGRAPH2025 paper introduces a novel pipeline that captures and digitizes physical threads, predicts fabric appearance from the weaving pattern, and aids designers in exploring new possibilities.
🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html
🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🥻Our new #SIGGRAPH2025 paper introduces a novel pipeline that captures and digitizes physical threads, predicts fabric appearance from the weaving pattern, and aids designers in exploring new possibilities.
🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html
🔗 mandyxia.com/research/fabrix.html
People still seem to trust LLMs without considering the potential for overt manipulation or bias, and I think we’re also nearing the end of a brief period where chatbot makers assumed that prompts would be hidden: future manipulation will likely come in ways that are harder to directly observe. 1/2
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
People still seem to trust LLMs without considering the potential for overt manipulation or bias, and I think we’re also nearing the end of a brief period where chatbot makers assumed that prompts would be hidden: future manipulation will likely come in ways that are harder to directly observe. 1/2
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Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs?
Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"
with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"
with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
![MOTIVATION
Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are at the core of Computer Graphics research. These chips are critical for rendering images, processing geometric data, and training machine learning models. Yet, the production and disposal of GPUs emits CO2 and results in toxic e-waste [1].
METHOD
We surveyed 888 papers presented at SIGGRAPH (premier conference for computer graphics research), from 2018 to 2024, and systematically gathered GPU models cited in the text.
We then contextualize the hardware reported in papers with publicly available data of consumers’ hardware [2, 3].
REFERENCES
[1] CRAWFORD, KATE. The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021.
[2] STEAM. Steam Hardware Survey. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
[3] BLENDER. Blender Open Data. https://opendata.blender.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpta66q3ots5ia23kvfzpu5r/bafkreidqnyftshkcmtpzqlxsknnvcn34xszafururgdixddtcuzrmwloqq@jpeg)
June 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ever wondered how badly we're all addicted to buying new GPUs in graphics labs?
Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"
with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
Come see our talk at #SIGGRAPH2025 to discuss how we can collectively move "Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research"
with @elie-michel.bsky.social @axelparis.bsky.social Octave Crespel and Felix Hähnlein
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brb trying to convince every graphics paper author to use the same taxonomy for implicit functions
May 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
brb trying to convince every graphics paper author to use the same taxonomy for implicit functions
Reposted by Alexa Schor
Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering!
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering!
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After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics
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I’ll be giving a talk at the New England Symposium on Graphics at MIT this year!
📢New England Symposium on Graphics 2025 is BACK on April 26 at at MIT. Join us for inspiring talks, including a keynote by Prof. Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth) plus a poster session, networking, and more. Attendance is FREE—register now: forms.gle/5zWWAQL4KtU7.... Full details: nesg.graphics
April 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’ll be giving a talk at the New England Symposium on Graphics at MIT this year!
First attempt at SMT soldering (chip is 4x7mm). Came out “far from good but good from far” - I’m happy with it.
April 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
First attempt at SMT soldering (chip is 4x7mm). Came out “far from good but good from far” - I’m happy with it.
It's worth noting the Times' removal (left) of the victim's gender from the headline, I think.
Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case.
Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case.
February 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's worth noting the Times' removal (left) of the victim's gender from the headline, I think.
Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case.
Comparable recent headlines covering cisgender victims (right) seem to all identify their genders when known, and there's no indication of any doubt of the victim's gender in this case.
Whenever I see this notification I get briefly excited that maybe Google found a new paper of mine that I didn’t know about.
January 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Whenever I see this notification I get briefly excited that maybe Google found a new paper of mine that I didn’t know about.
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Announcing SGI 2025! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu
January 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Announcing SGI 2025! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu
A cool-looking visualization I thought I'd share :)
December 28, 2024 at 11:26 PM
A cool-looking visualization I thought I'd share :)
The comments made in the keynote were, I think pretty clearly, explicitly anti-Chinese.
The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism.
The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism.
NeurIPS acknowledges that the cultural generalization made by the keynote speaker today reinforces implicit biases by making generalisations about Chinese scholars. This is not what NeurIPS stands for. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a safe space for all of us. 1/3
December 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The comments made in the keynote were, I think pretty clearly, explicitly anti-Chinese.
The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism.
The below also seems to launder what happened — “[reinforcing] implicit biases by making generalizations” is more simply and clearly described as an expression of bias; in this case, racism.
I won’t be at SIGGRAPH Asia this year, but if you will, make sure to check out my colleagues’ and advisor’s excellent paper:
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao...
It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao...
It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.
Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair
In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024
www.cs.yale.edu
November 25, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I won’t be at SIGGRAPH Asia this year, but if you will, make sure to check out my colleagues’ and advisor’s excellent paper:
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao...
It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-hao...
It is the very first SIGGRAPH technical paper in history (!) to focus on simulating Black, Afro-texture hair, and it does a fantastic job.
One thing I appreciate about removable (e.g. m.2) storage on laptops (and that annoys me about the industry shift to soldered storage) is seamless migration between devices.
I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great.
I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great.
November 25, 2024 at 8:45 PM
One thing I appreciate about removable (e.g. m.2) storage on laptops (and that annoys me about the industry shift to soldered storage) is seamless migration between devices.
I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great.
I'm traveling today and swapped the system drive from my laptop into an older but more portable one. Everything works great.
I recently made a browser custom style to color-code my various Google accounts, and I find it very useful.
November 17, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I recently made a browser custom style to color-code my various Google accounts, and I find it very useful.
I've been trying out dlang for research code instead of C++ lately, and it's been really nice -- faster compilation, built-in loop parallelization (like OpenMP), running arbitrary code at compile time.
November 17, 2024 at 5:39 PM
I've been trying out dlang for research code instead of C++ lately, and it's been really nice -- faster compilation, built-in loop parallelization (like OpenMP), running arbitrary code at compile time.