Well, I have about 59 things, but here are the LIFO bits:

• Reverse Engineering the Rendering of Witcher 3, part 20 – Light Shafts: an incredibly detailed article about the beams of light glare effect. And it truly is part 20, see the index for the first 19. These will keep you busy for many hours.
• You’re back? OK, since it’s three weeks later, check out the Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice course page, which I assume will have links to presentations once this SIGGRAPH course has been presented.
• This article on C++ compiler optimizations is incredible, I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. There are some truly miraculous code substitutions that can take place under the hood. The article also provides ways to code to ensure the optimizer can do its magic.
• Need to make a video presentation? The grapevine notes that the free version of DaVinci Resolve is currently The One for video editing.
• WebGL not good enough for you? Want more control? WebGPU is for you.
• Shading languages too easy for you now? How about encoding shading instructions into textures? Bonus: no capitalization and poor punctuation.
• You can now boot a Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft and play Doom on it (and, yes, you can also play Minecraft on it). Though if you want to go old school, there’s a 64-bit redstone computer with a display that includes graphics acceleration, such as Bresenham’s line drawing and flood fill.

SIGGRAPH: don’t forget to cancel your hotel reservation if you have one. Physical SIGGRAPH is gone this year, but your reservation lives on – I just noticed mine was still in the system. If your reservation is like mine, you’ll want to cancel by July 6th or pay a night’s fee penalty. SIGGRAPH is of course virtual this year. August 24-28 is the week scheduled – beyond this, I do not know.

EGSR: It’s happening this week. I should have posted this a few days ago, but it’s all on YouTube, so you haven’t actually missed anything.

The 31st Eurographics Symposium on Rendering will be all virtual and free to attend this year: watch it here. Talks can be watched live or afterwards on YouTube. Full conference program: https://egsr2020.london/program/

Registration is optional, but gets to access to the chat system where you can ask authors questions: https://egsr2020.london/. There’s also two virtual mixers, Wednesday and Thursday: https://egsr2020.london/social-mixers/ – now to determine what 12:00 UTC is… (ah, I think that’s 8 AM U.S. Eastern Time).

HPG 2020: The High-Performance Graphics conference will happen virtually July 13-16. It is free, though there is a nominal fee if you want to attend the interactive Q&A sessions.

I3D 2020: The Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games is virtual and free to all this year. Dates are September 14-18. Details will be posted here as they become available.

As usual, publications and their related resources for these conferences are added by Ke-Sen Huang to his wonderful pages tracking them.

I’ll update this post as I learn more.