The Desk

Things that are not papers: pages I keep updating, the occasional opinion piece, and live demos and experiments.

Guides and resources

A Survival Guide for Visual Computing PhD Students
A quick-start for new PhD students in graphics and visualization: venues, literature, writing, reviewing, talks, impact metrics and looking after yourself.
Updated Oct 2026
Calendar of Visual Computing deadlines
Paper deadlines of the main graphics, visualization, vision and VR conferences: the next dates, the usual month of each, and links to every venue.
Updated Oct 2026
Gaussian Splatting Capture Guide
How to film a phone video that makes a good 3D Gaussian splat: the basic rules, and what changes for an object, a big thing outdoors, a room or a whole place.
Updated Nov 2026
Visual Computing Resources
Free textbooks and courses, reference books, paper lists, blogs, tools and datasets for computer graphics and visualization, with a line on why each one is there.
Updated Oct 2026

Pages

Press and media
Articles, interviews, podcasts and videos about my work and my teams' projects, with scans of the printed pages.
Time capsule
Things from the early 2000s found in old folders: manuals I wrote as a student, a Blender course on video, and other finds.

Blog

  • Nov 10, 2026
    Standing on the shoulders of tokens: research in the AI era
    AI conferences receive three, seven, even twenty-five times more papers than a few years ago, every paper looks perfect, and there are not enough experts to review them. Some numbers, a small model that says acceptance is today quite a lottery, and where I think this is going.
  • Oct 23, 2026
    The two surnames' nightmare on research
    Hispanic double surnames and publication databases don't get along. What happened with mine, and what I would do differently today.
  • Oct 16, 2026
    Hello, world (again)
    What this blog is for: small opinions and notes, written by hand, with the wonderful smell of the 2000's internet.

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Live demos and experiments

  • Oct 2026
    X3D Copilot
    Browser-based X3D 4.0 editor with an AI co-author, live X_ITE rendering and schema validation. Web3D/Metaverse Tool of the Year and first prize of the AI & Web3D Innovation Competition at Web3D 2026.
  • Oct 2023
    Msheireb Downtown Doha in stereoscopic 360°
    Stereoscopic 360-degree captures of the Doha Design District at Msheireb Downtown, explorable in WebXR. A demo by Shaikha Al Sulaiti, Jens Schneider and Marco Agus.
  • Sep 2022
    GLSL Playground
    A small WebGL2 playground for GLSL fragment shaders in the spirit of Shadertoy: edit the code and recompile on the fly.
  • Jul 2022
    The frogs problem
    A quick implementation of a classic technical-interview algorithm problem: how many steps a random set of frogs needs to reach the end, with three strategies to compare.
  • May 2021
    MARLIE, multi-layered relightable image explorer
    Web viewer for annotated, multi-layer, relightable image models of artworks, from phones to museum walls. Best paper at GCH 2019, extended in JOCCH 2021.