Shlomi Steinberg

wave_tracer 0.1 released wavetracer.dev wave_tracer combines path tracing and wave optics in a novel way, for practical general-purpose wave simulations across a variety of EM modalities and applications.

There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

youtu.be/Xolb8DcrbLc The recorded EUROGRAPHICS 2026 talk for our wave tracing paper. Very honored that this paper received the Günter Enderle Best Paper Honorable Mention award. Collaboration with Matt Pharr (NVIDIA).

I stand (sit) behind this: alecjacobson.com/weblog/siggr... I will also warn Israeli potential attendants (meaning any civilian connection to Israel, like familial relations, loose as it may be) risk *getting kidnapped or worse*. Yes, even if you travel with a foreign passport, you may be targeted,

UWaterloo

Whistler, CA.

Happy to announce that I have joined UWaterloo as assistant professor. If you are interested in doing a PhD in rendering or light transport, check out ssteinberg.xyz/students.

A Free-Space Diffractions BSDF. This paper addresses the problem of simulating the diffractions ("bending") of light around geometry and obstacles, in an efficient manner with ray tracing. Collaboration with NVIDIA. t.co/FnMiR8XO2g