At some point, a professor was retiring, and he had about 200 issues printed of the "ACM Transactions on Graphics", an entire book shelf. I asked and got it. The years he had were the 70's and 80's, when 3D graphics were research and transitioned from "how to render a line" to "stochastic motion blurred hyper-surface photon tracing". I used to read them as entertainment. Amazing stuff.
None of those are anything like Discord. Mastodon and email aren't even realtime and don't have a voice chat. When I asked for an alternative, I was asking for a suitable substitute for how Discord is actually used. Until the open-source community produces an actual viable alternative, people will continue to use Discord.
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Holy smoke!! I have so many old documents to read now.
Does anyone want to form an ACM Cool Papers Club?
At some point, a professor was retiring, and he had about 200 issues printed of the "ACM Transactions on Graphics", an entire book shelf. I asked and got it. The years he had were the 70's and 80's, when 3D graphics were research and transitioned from "how to render a line" to "stochastic motion blurred hyper-surface photon tracing". I used to read them as entertainment. Amazing stuff.
Here is a great list of papers that was curated by Brett Victor: https://worrydream.com/refs/by-date.html
without opening the link, any idea what he is upto nowadays?
https://dynamicland.org/
Everything older than about 20 years has been open access for some time so you should have started earlier!
No, unfortunately, it has not and still is not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729348
I just started reading this one https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/325165.325171
I'm totally down for that. Maybe a discord server or something?
What an irony to celebrate open access on discord!
Chat for free, but some private channels & access to the weekly discussion call require Server Nitro 3000+
Can recommend some alternatives?
Discourse, mastodon, email... there are probably plenty of options. It's more missing a leader than it is missing a platform.
None of those are anything like Discord. Mastodon and email aren't even realtime and don't have a voice chat. When I asked for an alternative, I was asking for a suitable substitute for how Discord is actually used. Until the open-source community produces an actual viable alternative, people will continue to use Discord.
I’m for a Awesome ACM in the style of the original https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
Count me in