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Ava: Picture a congress hall full of student researchers, and one poster about how a texture wears out in real time.
Andrew: Texture wear? Like a virtual sneaker getting scuffed?
Ava: Something like that. Antoine presented a poster at CAÉC 2026, the annual congress of student researchers. It was about simulating the visual wear of textures in real time, fed by experimental data.
Andrew: So the wear isn't just invented by an artist. It comes from measurements.
Ava: That's the idea on the page. The data is experimental, and the simulation runs in real time. And it paid off: he placed second in the Optics category.
Andrew: Nice. What did people actually ask him about at the poster?
Ava: The conversations went in a few directions: automatic commit classification, training models with other models, and optics. He also talked with Samuel Lefebvre about virtual reality interaction, and what makes a virtual world feel more credible.
Andrew: That's a fun range for one poster.
Ava: It is. The closing ceremony was hosted by Leyla Agosti Cagalli Burri, and the LinkedIn post links a paper related to work shown at the congress.
Andrew: Is this connected to his thesis?
Ava: Yes. The thesis write-up is a separate article on wear in texture space, and this post links to it.
Andrew: So the poster is the conference-hall version of that work.
Ava: That's a fair way to put it. Second place in Optics, and some good conversations about making virtual surfaces believable.
Andrew: If you want the thesis side of the story, the written page points you straight to that article.
