Christopher Batty

A scenic coastal view overlooking Lyall Bay from near Mount Albert.

The Wellington sign near the Te Papa museum in the downtown waterfront of Wellington, with me physically standing in for the I.

My two and a half month sabbatical stay in Wellington in beautiful Aotearoa New Zealand is winding down. It's been lovely! Got some good research and writing done, and developed a new appreciation for trail running.

Americans.
Rise up and depose your insane, authoritarian, utterly criminal and warring regime.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Signed,
The sane world.

The Symposium on Computer Animation is taking place in Barcelona this year on July 8-10, so don't miss it! Paper deadline is mid-April:
https://computeranimation.org/instructions.html

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

Coming to terms with the idea that a future history book could have a chapter dedicated to a world war breaking out because high ranking White House officials were juicing the Kalshi betting odds

Like @cstross , I’ve only been realizing very late that extremely rich people are necessarily crazy.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/02/more-in-sadness-than-in-anger.html

It’s logical: non-crazy people will, at some point, hit the "more money than enough even for my craziest […]

Ford warns OSAP students not to pick ‘basket-weaving courses’, pick ‘inherit trust fund’ courses instead QUEEN’S PARK – In the wake of cuts to higher education loans, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has encouraged students “not to pick basket-weaving courses”, and instead to follow his example and enrol in the far more lucrative “be born a trust fund millionaire” program. With the end of Ontario’s 8-year tuition freeze, plus a significant […] The post Ford warns OSAP students not to pick ‘basket-weaving courses’, pick ‘inherit trust fund’ courses instead appeared first on The Beaverton.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/ford-warns-osap-students-not-to-pick-basket-weaving-courses-pick-inherit-trust-fund-courses-instead/

It's wild how his whole midlife crisis fashion rebrand that was so prevalent when he was helping trump last election season, has disappeared since the masked gestapo started shooting poets and nurses in the face

I was just thinking about all the academics who thought they were being cute by naming their papers "Make [niche topic] Great Again" during the earlier Trump years. Who could've guessed that adopting the slogan of a racist, sexist, narcissistic monster would age poorly...

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.

even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

yet people state with absolute assurance that women cannot be elected. for god's sake, don't be the sexism you decry.

A citation list from a biology paper, in which one citation erroneously lists C. Barry as a co-author (it should have been C. Batty, i.e., yours truly).

When your paper achieves a bit of cross-disciplinary impact, but somebody else gets the credit...

steganography is when you write down verbatim what a stegosaurus told you

I learned yesterday that ACM is providing AI summaries of research papers and conference sessions in the form of those obnoxious AI-generated podcasts. I hope no money is being spent on that.

Image shows woman sat at computer. Text says me- stressing over every word in a simple email. Billionaires “hay wen we mtg 2do crime$’

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116017885160504649

More importantly to me at least, even big famous newspapers like the @guardian can't afford to fight all the lawsuits they get involved in, so if you want to read the original version of stories, you can't trust their archives, you […]

just a reminder that Donald Trump's unilateral destruction of US AID has murdered 700k people so far, and is likely to result in somewhere around 14 million deaths.

you don't get to be called the peacemaker in chief after committing one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. 1

A snippet of text from an academic (computer graphics) paper that says "TABLE 1: Strategy Applied to VRML 2.0 Models Collected on the World Wide Web".

Tell me your paper was written in 2001 without telling me your paper was written in 2001.

My PhD student Abhishek Madan is getting ready to graduate and he’s looking for a postdoc or industry position. Checkout his website www.dgp.toronto.edu/~amadan/

He’s been an amazing student , basically does all his research by himself. Fantastic math and implementation acumen.

Home | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest A whimsical literary competition for the worst possible opening sentences to novels never written.

Aw, I missed this news. Last year's was the final Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. You would have to be good, to be bad enough.

@robcinos what's the context here? what was said?

SIGGRAPH does a "Thesis Fast Forward" every year, which is similar to the "three minute thesis" (3MT) contest. It's a fun way to see what some leading PhD students in graphics have been up to. (My student Ryusuke Sugimoto is one of them.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlrTZEJeEXs&feature=youtu.be

If other democracies want to help democracy in America right now, they can start selling our treasuries.

That seems to be the only thing that gets Republicans to take action against Trump.

[Uspol, shooting]

One in three Americans thinks it's totally fine to repeatedly shoot a mom at nearly point blank range for the crime of doing a three point turn while being insufficiently deferential. That country is so deeply unwell.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
— George Orwell, 1984

Abolish ICE.

Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Saddened to hear of the passing of computer graphics luminary Loren Carpenter. I was lucky to have worked with Loren as part of the RenderMan team at Pixar, and benefitted enormously from his kindness and wisdom, especially in the early days. The respect and patience that he showed me in my […]

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...

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#FluidSim #FluidDynamics #Simulation #Marbling #GenerativeArt