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- Publication Type: X-Mas Card
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- Date: 2025
Abstract
The Research Unit of Computer Graphics wishes you a Merry Christmas with this brilliantly illuminated Christmas tree.
Its temperature field is simulated using GPU-accelerated photon tracing: millions of perfectly traced rays
contributing to a radiative transport operator driving a non-linear Newton-Raphson solver. In this season of light, let us
celebrate the beauty that emerges when physics meets festive geometry, Monte Carlo convergence brings tidings of joy,
and your RTX card finally earns its keep doing something other than training yet another diffusion model. Wishing you
low RMSE in your experiments, convergence in your solvers, and just enough noise to make the magic feel real.
Merry Christmas and a radiantly rendered New Year!
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BibTeX
@xmascard{xmas-2025,
title = " X-Mas Card 2025",
author = "Chuyan Zhang and Christian Freude and David Hahn",
year = "2025",
abstract = "The Research Unit of Computer Graphics wishes you a Merry
Christmas with this brilliantly illuminated Christmas tree.
Its temperature field is simulated using GPU-accelerated
photon tracing: millions of perfectly traced rays
contributing to a radiative transport operator driving a
non-linear Newton-Raphson solver. In this season of light,
let us celebrate the beauty that emerges when physics meets
festive geometry, Monte Carlo convergence brings tidings of
joy, and your RTX card finally earns its keep doing
something other than training yet another diffusion model.
Wishing you low RMSE in your experiments, convergence in
your solvers, and just enough noise to make the magic feel
real. Merry Christmas and a radiantly rendered New Year!",
month = dec,
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2025/xmas-2025/",
}
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