Published on: 2025-06-11 13:43:00
Introduction We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of a scene with full global illumination effects and that does not require per-scene training or fine-tuning. Mesh to Image, End to End Instead of taking a physics-centric approach to rendering, we formulate rendering as a sequence-to-sequence transformation where a sequence of tokens representing triangles with reflectance properties is converted to a sequence
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Introduction We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of a scene with full global illumination effects and that does not require per-scene training or fine-tuning. Mesh to Image, End to End Instead of taking a physics-centric approach to rendering, we formulate rendering as a sequence-to-sequence transformation where a sequence of tokens representing triangles with reflectance properties is converted to a sequence
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A new variant of covid-19, NB.1.8.1, is stirring up trouble. The variant, already linked to recent surges in parts of Asia, has now been spotted in the U.S. as well. The World Health Organization singled out the growing emergence of NB.1.8.1 in its latest status report on covid-19 Wednesday. Scientists have also recently detected NB.1.8.1 in California and other states. Though NB.1.8.1 isn’t dramatically different from existing variants, the WHO warns that covid-19 remains a high public health
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Methodology Our rendering pipeline uses 3D triangles as primitives, each defined by three learnable 3D vertices, color, opacity, and a smoothness parameter \( \sigma \). The triangles are projected onto the image plane using a standard pinhole camera model with known intrinsics and extrinsics. Instead of binary masks, we introduce a smooth window function that softly modulates the triangle's influence across pixels. This function is derived from the 2D signed distance field (SDF) of the triang
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Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves in mirrors. And now, hawks are using traffic signals to hunt down prey, according to a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Ethology. The story starts with Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the study’s author, and an intersection in West Orange, New Jersey, near his home. As a zoologist, he had long been interested in
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Lots of things have changed in the world of Star Wars over the past few years but one thing has remained maddeningly consistent: no one involved in the future of Star Wars has mentioned Rian Johnson. Johnson, writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was once set to write and direct a full new trilogy of films. But when The Last Jedi was met with such a polarizing response, those projects were moved to the background. Johnson went on to make Knives Out, a huge, original hit film, and has
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Google TL;DR Google has launched Imagen 4 at Google I/O 2025, offering improved photorealistic quality, better details, and support for resolutions up to 2K. The new image generator model version excels in fine textures like fur, fabric, and water droplets, and spelling accuracy for designs featuring text. Imagen 4 is available today across Gemini apps and Workspace tools like Slides and Docs. At Google I/O last year, Google introduced Imagen 3, its highest-quality text-to-image generator. I
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It's easy to silkscreen 600W on the product, but can the product live up to the hype? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I test dozens of chargers every year. Some are excellent, while others fall short. Here on ZDNET, I only feature the cream of the crop -- the best of the best. However, I occasionally receive requests from readers asking for my thoughts or opinions on specific products. Lately, one product that's been generating a lot of buzz is this 600W GaN charger. Also: This wall charger repl
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Several years back I found an interesting question on Reddit. Essentially the author asks why there is no way to expand a pack into a sequence of case labels followed by a statement. It was illustrated with the following imaginary syntax: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 template < class Visitor , class Variant , std :: size_t ... Is > auto visit_impl ( Visitor visitor , Variant && variant , std :: index_sequence < Is ... > ) { auto i = variant . index (); switch ( i ) { ( case Is : return visitor ( get
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Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED. Their appearance comes days after the White House fired the director of the copyright office, Shira Perlmutter, who had held the job since 2020. Perlmutter was removed from her post on Saturday, one day after the agency released a report that raised concerns about the legality in certain case
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I’m an ethusiastic promoter of the C language. One of the outmoded cultural phenomena associated with C are bit-twiddling hacks: a collection of brain-teasers that implement improbably complex algorithms using bitwise arithmetic. They are often developed under the guise of code optimization, but they mostly serve to impress your friends and confuse enemies. I have also previously written about fractals; they’re pieces of mathematical curiosa that enjoyed a near-mythical status in 1980s, but are
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 SoC might have TSMC (3nm) and Samsung Foundry (2nm) variants. Samsung’s version could appear on Galaxy phones in the latter half of next year, possibly on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and other foldables. It’s unclear if the Samsung-made chip will be a special ‘For Galaxy’ variant. Qualcomm is expected to follow up on the successful Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship SoC with a new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 SoC later in the
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He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.” Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator
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Image by Getty / Futurism People who support authoritarianism on either side of the political divide have, according to a new study, something weird going on with their brains. Published in the journal Neuroscience, new research out of Spain's University of Zaragoza found, upon scanning the brains of 100 young adults, that those who hold authoritarian beliefs had major differences in brain areas associated with social reasoning and emotional regulation from subjects whose politics hewed more t
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The Last of Us season 2 has arrived, returning us to a world taken over by a fungal infection known as cordyceps that has swept the globe, leaving millions dead and changing everything for those who survive it. The cordyceps infection is caused by a fungus that takes over people's brains, turning them into mindless killing machines. While most people who get infected become "runners," there are those who mutate further. In Season 1, we met one of the variants, "clickers," who hunt by sound and
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In 2022, comedian Zach Cregger made his feature film debut with Barbarian, and we’ve been waiting for his next original movie before he jumps over to Resident Evil. That would be Weapons—which recently got a first glimpse at CinemaCon and now has a grand, ARG-involved reveal ahead of its summer release. A teaser released ahead of Sinners over the weekend, and now WB’s posted it online. The horror thriller stars Julia Garner as Justine, a schoolteacher who shows up to work and finds nearly all o
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\( ewcommand{\RR}{\Bbb R} ewcommand{\QQ}{\Bbb Q} ewcommand{\ZZ}{\Bbb Z}\) For which \(n\) can you cut a square into \(n\) triangles of equal area? This question appears quite simple; it could have been posed to the Ancient Greeks. But like many good puzzles, it is a remarkably stubborn one. It was first solved in 1970, by Paul Monsky. Despite the completely geometric nature of the question, his proof relies primarily on number theory and combinatorics! There is a small amount of algebraic
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The Mandalorian & Grogu won’t be in theaters for over a year but at Star Wars Celebration Japan, the audience was given an exciting tease, and here’s what happened Set for release on May 22, 2026, The Mandalorian & Grogu will be the first Star Wars movie released since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Set after the events of The Mandalorian season three, we pick things up with bounty hunter Din Djarin and his newly minted Mandalorian foundling, Grogu, as they go off on an adventure so b
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Larian Studios has deployed the final major update for Baldur’s Gate 3 . It's a pretty spicy one too, as the developer is adding a bunch of the community's most-requested changes. Among them is full cross-play support. So, no matter whether you're playing on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S or Mac, you can squad up with your buddies and help each other get through the huge RPG. Another welcome arrival is that of a built-in photo mode. This will be available during most parts of the game, incl
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8, which brings changes like 12 new subclasses, crossplay, and a photo mode, launches on April 15th, developer Larian Studios announced on Friday. The patch, set to be the game’s last major update, was originally announced in November 2024, so it’s been a long time coming (though Larian has been stress testing it ahead of the official launch). The 12
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In an interview with Empire Magazine ahead of the premiere of Andor season two, showrunner Tony Gilroy discussed why he believes a show like theirs “will never happen again.” Thanks to The Mandalorian‘s success, there was a shift with Lucasfilm to go all in on a risk with long-form story telling, as well as being the push that allowed the Star Wars canon to open up in ways that aren’t as feasible in this current era of television. “No one’s ever gonna start a show on this scale again, and shoot
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Measuring acceleration structures Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an abstract data structure that stores scene geometry, known as “acceleration structure” and often referred to as “BVH” or “BLAS”. Unlike geometry representation for rasterization, rendering engines can not customize the data layout; unlike texture formats, the layout is not standardized across vendors. It may seem like a trivial matter - surely, by 2025 all implementations are c
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It's easy to silkscreen 600W on the product, but can the product live up to the hype? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I test dozens of chargers every year. Some are excellent, while others fall short. Here on ZDNET, I only feature the cream of the crop --the best of the best. However, I occasionally receive requests from readers asking for my thoughts or opinions on specific products. Lately, one product that's been generating a lot of buzz is this 600W GaN charger. Also: My adhesive secret weap
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More While many enterprises are now racing to adopt and deploy AI, credit bureau giant Experian has taken a very measured approach. Experian has developed its own internal processes, frameworks and governance models that have helped it test out generative AI, deploy it at scale and have an impact. The company’s journey has helped to transform operations from a traditional c
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Depending on your vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, there are foods you should be aware of that might not always adhere. Sugar, wine and corn tortillas are just a few of the food and drink that may contain animal byproducts or elements. You may be a diligent label reader, but you may also be taking for granted that certain food products that would instinctively seem to be vegetarian or vegan actually are, when in fact they can contain unexpected animal-based ingredients. Here are 10 foods that su
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In fact, the researchers calculated the point at which a moving crowd can transition from order to disorder. That point, they found, was an angular spread of around 13 degrees, meaning that if pedestrians don’t walk straight across, but instead an average pedestrian veers off at an angle larger than 13 degrees, this can tip a crowd into disordered flow. If a crowd has a relatively small angular spread, this means that most pedestrians walk in opposite directions and meet the oncoming traffic he
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Transparency has never been more important when it comes to what we ingest, given a litany of common food allergies and lifestyle choices. You may be a diligent label reader, but you may also be taking for granted that certain food products that would instinctively seem to be vegetarian or vegan actually are, when in fact they can contain unexpected animal-based ingredients. Depending on your commitment to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, there are certain foods you should be aware of that migh
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According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA), and to bring it directly under the secretary of state. The document, on which Politico first reported, states that as part of its reorganization, the agency will “leverage blockchain technology” as part of its procurement process. “All distributions would also
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Date Sun 09 March 2025 Tags Programming In this blog post, I’ll talk about smoothing and blurring 3D meshes using Laplacian mesh smoothing. A good example of where this is useful is Adobe Substance 3D Modeler’s smooth tool which I implemented using Laplacian mesh smoothing. Laplacian mesh smoothing works by iteratively shifting each vertex towards the average position of that vertex’s neighbors. The math formula for this is: $$v_i = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{j=1}^{N} v_j$$ which we can implement in c
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If you’ve spent time in San Francisco or Phoenix in the past couple years, chances are you’ve probably seen a self-driving car making its way around. This week, we’re joined by WIRED’s Aarian Marshall to talk about the race to flood our streets with self-driving cars. We’ll get into safety regulations, the pros and cons of robotaxis, and we imagine a future where driverless cars become mainstream. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode,
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