Theodore Kim

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Yale CS Prof | Former Pixar Senior Scientist | Academy Awards 2012, 2022 |
Bylines: WaPo, LATimes, SciAm, SFChron, TIME
http://www.tkim.graphics/
Theodore KimJul 4, 2025
Yoehan OhJul 3, 2025

Excited to share my Op-Ed on The Opinion Pages: "Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn’t Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY." https://theopinionpages.com/2025/07/amid-ice-raids-immigrants-shouldnt-look-to-rooftop-koreans-in-la-but-chinese-contractors-in-ny/

I contributed this through the Public Voices Fellowship, hosted by the Yale Women Faculty Forum in partnership with The OpEd Project. A big thank you to Jennifer L. Mueller for her invaluable support!

Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn't Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY | The Opinion Pages

Shortly before the June 5 I.C.E. raids in the Los Angeles Fashion District and arrest of 45 workers, President Donald J. Trump explained that when he speaks about his goals to move more manufacturing to the USA, “We're not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts.” His remarks reflect the reality that, according to theAmerican

The Opinion Pages
Theodore KimMay 9, 2025
Yoehan OhMay 9, 2025
My colleague, Dr. Eun-Joo Ahn, lecturer and Presidential Visiting Fellow at Yale, publishes an article on _Physics Today_: "Re-remembering Benjamin Whisoh Lee [1935-1977], promoter of gauge theories"! There are so much to unpack this Korean American theoretical physicist's life and work in colonial/liberated Korea and the U.S. Please check out at: https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44264/Re-remembering-Benjamin-Whisoh-Lee-promoter-of
Show threadTheodore KimOct 9, 2024

We will present this paper at #SIGGRAPHAsia2024. More info in the Yale press release.

This work was with A.M. Darke, Alvin Shi, and Haomiao Wu.

Thanks to the Bungie Foundation, Kareem Shuman, H.D. Harris, Carvell Wallace, Elijah Richmond, and most of all, Jet Appling for making this work possible.
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https://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/researchers-publish-landmark-study-hair-animation

Researchers Publish Landmark Study in Hair Animation

We have grown accustomed to seeing many aspects of our everyday world depicted using computer graphics, but some phenomena remain difficult for even the most experienced animators. Hair, specifically

Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Show threadTheodore KimOct 9, 2024

This is NOT another paper that shows one sad curly example after a dozen pages of straight hair. Those are *obviously* straight hair algorithms.

We treat hair as curly from the beginning. As a high-frequency helix, not a half-parabola.
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https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-haomiao/publication/curlyCue.html

Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair

In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024

Show threadTheodore KimOct 9, 2024

We identify three geometric phenomena unique to highly coiled hair: phase locking, switchbacks, and period skipping.

These phenomena do NOT appear in straight hair, and thus have been ignored at #SIGGRAPH, and CGI in general, for half a century.
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Theodore KimOct 9, 2024

There has NEVER been paper at #SIGGRAPH on Black, Afro-textured hair in its entire 50 year history.

UNTIL NOW.

We introduce CURLY-CUE: GEOMETRIC METHODS FOR HIGHLY COILED HAIR. When you STOP assuming straight hair is a universal baseline, lots of new science opens up.
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Theodore KimJul 29, 2024
Theodore KimJul 23, 2024

Join us at our #SIGGRAPH2024 Birds of a Feather
COUNTERING RACIAL BIAS IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS RESEARCH: THREE YEARS LATER

We'll discuss the racial bias embedded in CGI algorithms, progress, setbacks, and ways forward on Monday, 7/29, 5 PM, Room 710.

This is a follow-on to the #SIGGRAPH2021 and #SIGGRAPH2022 BoFs of the same name, co-hosted with
A.M. Darke, Alec Jacobson, Silvia Sellan, Lohit Petikam, Wojciech Jarosz, Curtis Andrus, and Holly Rushmeier. Come join us!

https://s2024.conference-program.org/presentation/?id=bof_139&sess=sess352

Presentation | SIGGRAPH 2024

The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques. 51 years of SIGGRAPH and join us in Denver or online starting 28 July.

SIGGRAPH 2024
Theodore KimJul 29, 2024
The crowd collectively went WHOA when Alexa Schor showed this Fast Forward video at #SIGGRAPH2024. Come see her talk in the 2 PM "Shape Analysis" session tomorrow!
Theodore KimJul 23, 2024

Join us at our #SIGGRAPH2024 Birds of a Feather
COUNTERING RACIAL BIAS IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS RESEARCH: THREE YEARS LATER

We'll discuss the racial bias embedded in CGI algorithms, progress, setbacks, and ways forward on Monday, 7/29, 5 PM, Room 710.

This is a follow-on to the #SIGGRAPH2021 and #SIGGRAPH2022 BoFs of the same name, co-hosted with
A.M. Darke, Alec Jacobson, Silvia Sellan, Lohit Petikam, Wojciech Jarosz, Curtis Andrus, and Holly Rushmeier. Come join us!

https://s2024.conference-program.org/presentation/?id=bof_139&sess=sess352

Presentation | SIGGRAPH 2024

The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques. 51 years of SIGGRAPH and join us in Denver or online starting 28 July.

SIGGRAPH 2024
Theodore KimJul 18, 2024

GRAPHICS FOLKS: We will be presenting “The Life and Legacy of Bui Tuong Phong”, our historical investigation into the life of the inventor of the Phong reflection model, at SIGGRAPH next Sunday. He passed away exactly 49 years ago at age 32.

IMPORTANT: His wife and daughter **will be at the presentation**. They reached out to us after we published our findings in TIME, and have offered to come and answer any questions attendees may have.

https://s2024.conference-program.org/presentation/?id=gensub_159&sess=sess184

Presentation | SIGGRAPH 2024

The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques. 51 years of SIGGRAPH and join us in Denver or online starting 28 July.

SIGGRAPH 2024