Alain Chesnais
@alainchesnais
Past President of the ACM - acm.org Past President of ACM SIGGRAPH Past Director of Engineering, Maya
Latest scam that I am embarassed to admit that I just fell for. I received an invitation from a trusted friend's gmail account asking me to participate in some sort of celebration for her and asking me to validate with my gmail account login. If you receive such an invite, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK!
Love this publicity stunt by the Paris metro system, RATP, to raise awareness about safety on the metro havasevents.com/project/ratp....
One of my all time favourite marketing campaigns from the early 90's when we were pitching the merits of IPR.
Love this poster calling for a general strike in the US to protest the actions of DHS on January 30th.
I am devastated to learn that my friend and colleague, Vicki Hanson, has passed away. cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...
Wishing all my friends and followers who celebrate a very merry Christmas!
Realized that in the last Gemini picture representing LEGO Alain celebrating the end of SIGGRAPH 2025 with the student volunteers, Gemini had forgotten to include his beard and mustache! So I regenerated the image telling Gemini not to forget them 😀
More fun with Gemini. I challenged Gemini to generate a picture of LEGO Alain celebrating the end of the conference with the SVs. Still haven't managed to get it to place the SIGGRAPH logo on his shrt, but I'm working on it. I did finally manage to convince Gemini that LEGO Alain is not a giant.
Having run out of tokens for video generation on Veo 3 today, I defaulted to asking Gemini for an image of LEGO Alain at the Pathfinders booth asking for help as a first time SIGGRAPH attendee.
Playing with the Julia set visualizer linked in the video description you can explore fractal space yourself.
Loving the Drudge Report's AI generated image depicting Trump as the Taco king.
NASDAQ down almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year. So much winning for the US president!
DOW futures just dropped close to 3% after the tariff announcements
French newspaper Libération is reporting that french people are boycotting US products. journal.liberation.fr
Watching the VIX volatility index since Trump took office. Not good! What this tells us is that the market has little trust in the Trump administration's ability to deliver predictable results that CEOs can make long term plans on.
A picture taken 35 years ago at my first startup: Studio Base 2 while my wife was feeding our youngest son. Both my sons got very early access to computers and are both programmers today. We sold the company in 1991 and it is still operating today: studiobase2.com
Trying out Apple's Image playground on Mac OS 18.3 with the prompt "a research scientist holding on to his papers". Yes, I'm a fan of Two Minute Papers 😀 www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePa...