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SIGGRAPH, CHI, Ars Electronica, and MIT Media Lab — academic research translated for a creative audience.
Twelve-tone equal temperament is a default, not a law. A research project from the American University of Beirut has made the alternative both readable and playable — an open corpus of Arabic maqām theory plus a plugin that retunes MIDI while you play.
NVIDIA used its SIGGRAPH keynote to show where AI-driven graphics is heading: DLSS 5 that swaps rendering models per object, and a world model small enough to run on-device. Both matter well beyond gaming.
Photorealistic path tracing looks incredible and runs slowly; real-time relighting is fast but approximate. Disney Research's new 'neural render proxy' tries to get both — interactive relighting that still looks path-traced.
No screen, no headset — just a speck of matter held aloft by sound, whipped through the air fast enough to draw a glowing 3D shape you can walk around. Acoustic levitation displays are inching from lab marvel toward real medium.
Generative video gives you a clip to watch. Genie 3 gives you a place to walk around in — a world that keeps generating, coherently, as you move through it. For artists, that's not a longer video; it's a new kind of space.
Smell is the sense most directly wired to memory. This project takes that fact seriously as design material, rather than treating AI-and-photos as a purely visual problem.
Converting a 3D scene into accurate 2D line art has been unreliable and slow for years. This year's award-winning approach fixes it by changing which math problem it's solving.
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