All currently available SSS models ignore internal boundary condition (aka TIR) .. but trapping rays past the critical angle (keeping'em bouncing) forces longer path lengths .. for richer, more saturated, physically accurate translucency. Same color and mfp. With / without TIR

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At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

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this is such brilliant work. id never have thought to fit toruses, but nicole's explanation below makes it seem so natural in hindsight. and then packs 9000 other awesome connections to other hard problems into one paper. chapeau to her & the co-authors

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CW: food I was given this salt as an early birthday gift and you know I gotta try it on *everything*. My tastebuds and brain getting steak and watermelon flavor memories swizzled with this combo 🤔

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Disney Animation has a bunch of talks at #SIGGRAPH2026; each day I'll post a thread about our talks for the day! In total my coworkers and I are presenting a total of 10 talks. Here are the talks my coworkers are presenting Sunday/Monday: (1/10) disneyanimation.com/events/?draw...

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