“If you think about Dirac, he was a man of few words, but within those words was a logic that was simple, direct, and fundamental. Once you understand his ideas, you cannot help but marvel at them. I wondered what traditional Chinese phrase might describe one’s impression after reading his papers and grasping the importance of his work. I think the best phrase is: ‘Writing as clear as autumn waters, untouched by dust.’”

This is a collection of recent papers I personally find beautiful, focused mostly (perhaps entirely) on computer graphics. The list will likely grow over time. Older, well-known works are not covered — there are simply too many to do them justice. What draws me to a paper is less its result than its shape: work that unifies separate approaches into a single framework, surfaces overlooked connections across subfields, or pairs solid mathematical or physical grounding with an elegant, powerful numerical scheme. This list reflects that taste, not merit — inclusion says nothing about a paper's practical impact, which I could not care less about.

• Mixwell: Sharp 2D Fluid Brushes for Progressive Physics-Based Mixing, Doug James, Ethan James (SIGGRAPH 2026)
• Implicit Minimal Surfaces for Bijective Correspondences, Etienne Corman, Yousuf Soliman, Robin Magnet, Mark Gillespie (SIGGRAPH 2026)
• Uncertainty-aware geometry processing on Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces, Baptiste Genest, David Coeurjolly (SIGGRAPH 2026)
• Force-Dual Modes: Subspace Design from Stochastic Forces, Otman Benchekroun, Eitan Grinspun, Maurizio Chiaramonte, Philip Allen Etter (SIGGRAPH Asia 2025)
• Modeling and Rendering Glow Discharge, Venkataram Edavamadathil Sivaram, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li (SIGGRAPH 2025)
• Stylized Rendering as a Function of Expectation, Rex West, Sayan Mukherjee (SIGGRAPH 2024)
• Stochastic Computation of Barycentric Coordinates, Fernando de Goes, Mathieu Desbrun (SIGGRAPH 2024)