aevaMar 13, 2023

All us SDF rendering enthusiasts should have some kind of virtual conference so we can compare notes on what we've all tried and save each other a lot of time. We could call it something fancy like SIGSDF (Special Interest Group Signed Distance Frobs).

We could start with just the "well, that didn't quite work" track for now, unless anyone's actually managed to solve it and is willing to share.

Show threadaevaMar 13, 2023
Now, that's "special interest" in the autism sense, not in the ACM sense, if there's a difference.
Show threadaevaMar 13, 2023
I suppose the difference is whether or not there's a $200/year subscription fee
Show threadaevaMar 14, 2023
ok so virtual conferences are a lot of work to run still. what if we just do a pretend conference. like, everyone who wants to submit a talk just record it and put it on youtube or something and then tell the event organizer about the talk's existence before the deadline to get it included in the event proceedings, and then on the day of the event the listing is made public and maybe we hang out in a chat room or something?
Show threadaevaMar 14, 2023
#poll suppose I were to against my better judgement "organize" a "conference" this summer via the above method, would you be interested in participating? The topic would be rendering / meshing / procgen with SDFs and other implicit functions, but we could also have a track for tangential topics.
I would submit a talk
4.3%
I would watch
84.3%
not interested / show results
11.3%
Poll ended at .
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschMar 15, 2023
@aeva "I would like to submit a talk but I know myself and it'd be quite unlikely I actually would"
Show threadaevaMar 15, 2023
@Atridas big mood
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschMar 15, 2023
@aeva Seriously if that happens I'm going to give it my best shot
Show threadaeva
@Atridas well from the poll results so far we have 2.6 speakers ._.
Mar 15, 2023 at 7:33amWeb
Show threadaevaMar 15, 2023
@Atridas which is not to say that it can't happen, it just means I'd probably need to like shake people up individually for submissions >_>
Show threadJosh JersildMar 15, 2023
@aeva @Atridas I definitely did a SDF modification (a multi-channel flavor for sharper corners) but it was so long ago I can't even remember what it was so if I can find that code (a big maybe) and it's not stupid, maaaaayyyybbeee?
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschMar 15, 2023
@JoshJers @aeva my main issue is that I don't do SDF special interest right now but I'd try to shoehorn something in the tangential track