Pascal Guehl – Research Projects
Welcome to my research homepage. Here are some of the projects I’ve worked on.
Multi-Dimensional Procedural Wave Noise
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 44, No. 4, Article 37, August 2025
Presented at SIGGRAPH 2025, August 2025, Vancouver, Canada
Semi-Procedural Appearance Model for Controlling and Scaling Texture and Material Synthesis
Presented at University of Strasbourg, December 2022, Strasbourg, France
SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward, July 2024, Denver, USA
Semi-Procedural Textures using Point Process Texture Basis Functions
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Volume 39, Issue 4, July 2020
Presented at EGSR 2020, June-July 2020, London, UK
EGSR: Honorable Mention from the best papers committee
Replicable Paper: The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative
EGSR: Honorable Mention from the best papers committee
Replicable Paper: The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative
Management & Teaching
- 2024-2026: Master of Science & Technology in Extended Cinematography Ecole Polytechnique (Head of Master): P. Guehl
Teaching: Real-Time 3D Programming (C++, OpenGL) | Physically-based Rendering (C++, OpenGL) | GPU Computing & Modern GPU Features (C++, OpenGL, CUDA, OpenCL) | Advanced Real-Time & Neural Rendering (C++, OpenGL) | Generative AI Workshop (ComfyUI).
- 2024-2026: SPIRAL - Interdisciplinary Center Science, People, Imagination, Research, Art, all Linked! Ecole Polytechnique (steering committee): P. Guehl, R. G. d. Cassagnac
Research Projects
Industry Collaborations
- 2026-2027: AMD — AMD Research and Advanced Development (RAD) Ecole Polytechnique (graphics researcher): P. Guehl, X. Wang
- 2026-2027: BUF Ecole Polytechnique (internship co-supervision): P. Guehl, X. Wang, M. Desbrun
- 2025-2027: Angénieux (Thales) Ecole Polytechnique (apprenticeship co-supervision): P. Guehl
- 2024: Dada! Animation Ecole Polytechnique (internship co-supervision): P. Guehl, D. Rohmer
- 2016: AMD — AMD Research and Advanced Development (RAD) University of Lyon, LIRIS research lab (internship): P. Guehl, J.-C. Iehl
- 2011-2015: RSA Cosmos INRIA (Lead research engineer): P. Guehl, F. Neyret
ANR Project (French National Research Agency) — reference: ANR-10-CORD-0006
RTIGE (Real-Time & Interactive Galaxy for Edutainment)
Observatoire de Paris, GEPI (Galaxies, Stars, Physics and Instrumentation)
Students
PhD Students
- Tara BUTLER, PhD co-advised at Ecole Polytechnique (2023-2025), successfully defended — Design of tangled, branching, and growing organic 3D structures from a sketch
Apprentice Students
- Sofia Gaia FORMENTI — apprentice Master student at Ecole Polytechnique with Angénieux (Thales), 2025-2027
- Alex FOULON — apprentice Master student at Ecole Polytechnique with AMD (Advanced Rendering Research Group) through Fenyx Group, 2025-2027
Interns / Master students
- Maxime BETTINELLI — Master of Cinema at ENS Louis-Lumière, 2026
- Raphaël Manus — 3A Master at Ecole Polytechnique, 2024 (5 months)
- Marie Bienvenu — 3A Master at Ecole Polytechnique, 2024 (6 months)
- Nicolas ASSEO — 2A Bachelor at Ecole Polytechnique, 2025 (3 months)
- Arjun BOMMADEVARA — 2A Bachelor at Ecole Polytechnique, 2024 (3 months)
- Simon LUCAS — M2 Master at ..., 2020-2021 — BVH for GPU ray tracing
- Nicolas HOERTER — M2 Master at ..., 2020-2021 — GPU Path-Tracing Global Illumination
- Nathaniel SEYLER — M2 Master at ..., 2020-2021 — Texture Synthesis
- Thomas WEISSGERBER — M2 Master at ..., 2019-2020 — Interactive Visual Installation
- Evan ZARRELLA — L1 Bachelor at ..., 2019 (2 months) — Audio-based procedural terrain generation
- Marius CUVILLIER — L1 Bachelor at ..., 2019 (2 months) — Mixing audio and procedural shape synthesis
- Kevin MASSON — M1 Master at ..., 2017-2018 (150h) — Discrete Model Synthesis approach for texture synthesis
- Kevin MASSON — M1 Master at ..., 2017-2018 (150h) — Procedural patterns synthesis on surface in image plane
- Alexandre GEOFFROY — College student at ..., 2018 (1 week) — Création de circuits additionneurs avec Mindcraft
- Iman BELLOUKI — M1 Master at Ensimag, 2014 (2 months) — Real-time optical effects in OpenGL using GigaVoxels (glossy reflections, soft shadows, ...)
La machine à rêver - PPM (Partie Pratique de Mémoire)
Mémoire de Master : L'Inconscient Artificiel (Approche psychanalytique de l'IA générative)
Expressive Animation Retiming from Impulse-Based Gestures
Best Short Paper Award
Real-time optical effects in OpenGL using GigaVoxels (glossy reflections, soft shadows, ...)