Discovering New Research Point By Point

There is no rain on the CG parade. SIGGRAPH sat down with first author Rui Xu to shed light on the fascinating research behind the SIGGRAPH 2023 Technical Paper “Globally Consistent Normal Orientation for Point Clouds by Regularizing the Winding-number Field.” Try not to get blown away as you discover the inspiration behind their work, the difficulties they’ve overcome, and how this research will inspire the future.