Differentiable programming has become a hot research topic, and not only due to the popularity of machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX. Many fields apart from machine learning are finding differentiable programming to be a useful tool for solving optimization problems. In computer graphics, differentiable rendering, differentiable physics, and neural representations are all gaining popularity.This article received an honorable mention in 3Blue1Brown’s Summer of Math Expo...