Now, that's "special interest" in the autism sense, not in the ACM sense, if there's a difference.

I suppose the difference is whether or not there's a $200/year subscription fee

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?

#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.

@aeva hmmm, in so order to give a talk I always need to be promoted or baited or nerd-sniped somehow because I forget which of the things I know are relevant for other people. Let's see whether I can do that to myself :) also, what about making a "panel" (several people with different SDF-related backgrounds and approaches hang out in a recorded zoom call)?