Morgan McGuire

@CasualEffects

NVIDIA, U.Waterloo, & McGill. Worked on Unity, Graphics Codex, Principles & Practice, Markdeep, G3D, Skylanders, MUA2, E Ink, ROBLOX, Titan Quest

Ontario, Canada
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Joined January 2012
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    13 Aug 2018

    Buy The Graphics Codex for only $10. Hundreds of detailed entries, a full book on rendering physically-based lighting and materials, and coding projects to learn computer graphics from scratch on Windows, Linux, or Mac.

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    Aug 20

    Ever felt rejected? You’re not alone. Here's the journal rejection of Shannon’s paper that defined information theory and became the cornerstone of the digital world we know today. Last line slays me. From: We are sorry to inform you

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    6 hours ago

    Environment Artist (Contract) Where will your imagination take us? Apply here:

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    20 hours ago

    Calling all final year games undergrad and postgrad students: submit a link to your portfolio/end of year project to enter our women in games global student awards. More, icluding how to enter are at our Global Games Awards site.

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  5. 23 hours ago

    Everyone has no work now...or too much. If you have too much and want a super quick game jam to take your mind off the world for 2 hours this weekend, try one of these jams using or ! (Thanks, Josh!)

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    Aug 20

    We hope you are enjoying preview week! Amol Sathe and Lance Summers share the collaborative workflows and creative approach in The Look and Lighting of 'Show Yourself' in 'Frozen 2'

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    Aug 19

    i refuse to get married unless i’m proposed to with this ring box

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  8. Aug 20

    Legit thought this was a SIGGRAPH 2020 particle fluid visualization until they cut to the view with the city in the background.

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    🌊 ICYMI: Bioluminescent waves glowed in Monterey Bay on the coast of California last week. According to , the blue light is produced by plant plankton called dinoflagellates
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    Aug 19

    A pretty thorough, 3 hour long introduction to the Vulkan graphics API, recorded as part of Siggraph 2020. Includes code and slides.

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    Aug 19

    Today announced the availability of A100 on . The ND_A100_v4 VM series is its most powerful and massively scalable VM for AI. Learn more:

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  11. Aug 19

    Roll for the Galaxy is a great candidate for a virtual board game. It is super fun, but very fiddly and requires considering lots of permutations that would be better visualized, so I rarely take it out of the box.

    Boardgame Roll for the Galaxy hits app stores August 25!
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    Aug 19

    Applications are open for our annual NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program, seeking doctoral students working in accelerated computing, AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI for healthcare, high performance computing and related fields.

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    Aug 19

    Going to talk about terrain rendering in Roblox as part of "Moving Mobile Graphics" SIGGRAPH course next Monday!

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    Aug 19

    Best review for MS Flight Simulator so far: "For a second the airplanes sounded super realistic...then I realised it was my PC"

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    13 Aug 2018

    Buy The Graphics Codex for only $10. Hundreds of detailed entries, a full book on rendering physically-based lighting and materials, and coding projects to learn computer graphics from scratch on Windows, Linux, or Mac.

    34 replies 199 retweets 723 likes
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    Aug 18

    GRAB: A Dataset of Whole-Body Human Grasping of Objects An interesting dataset where they record human and object data with MoCap and fit models of body shape and pose, and the articulated face and hands, and the 3D object pose.

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    Aug 18

    Manifold Garden is now available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, & Xbox One! Rediscover gravity & explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Switch: PS4: Xbox One: Trailer:

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    Aug 18

    Oh dear! Two horrible geese! A new two-player mode for Untitled Goose Game will be available for free on September 23rd.

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  19. Aug 18

    Our team is full speed ahead on graphics research combining ray tracing, AI, and networks to take games, professional graphics, and XR to the next level through distributed processing between cloud and data center.

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  20. Aug 18

    Woohoo! GeForce NOW cloud gaming is now on Chromebooks. It is great to see so many cloud gaming systems come online and evolve and spread. Remote and hybrid rendering are the best opportunity to accelerate computer graphics with thin, light form factors.

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    Aug 17

    This book is a gem!

    The Graphics Codex itself is US$10. The G3D support code of ~200k lines of C++/OpenGL/OptiX is free. The projects are free online.
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