Computer Graphics II

Reading List


For info on paper summaries, please click here .

Please note that students taking this class for Graduate Credit must submit summaries for one paper  for each the topics below.  Papers that should be considered for graduate summaries are noted by [GRAD]

Most references can be found on reserve at the Library and are noted by [RESV]

All of the papers are, or will be, on reserve in hard copy.  In addition, some papers are available electronically . Papers available in electronic
form will be linked.

This list will be updated appropriately as the course progresses


General References on Image Synthesis:

  • James Foley, Andies Van Dam, Steven Fiener, and John Hughes, Computer Graphics Principles and Practice , Addison-Wesley, New York, 1990. [RESV]
  • Alan Watt & Mark Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, ACM Press, New York, 1992. [RESV]
  • R. Hall, Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.
  • Andrew Glassner, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, Vols 1 and 2, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.

  • Dec 3 -- Image Synthesis Pipeline

  • Donald P. Greenberg, et al. "A framework for realistic image synthesis", Proceedings SIGGRAPH 97 , pages 477-494.
  • Dec 5 -- Light and Color

  • Ian Ashdown, "Photometry and Radiometry: A Tour Guide for Computer Graphics Enthusiasts", Course Notes -- Course 1: Realistic Input for Realistic Images, 1995 ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Conference, August 6-11, Los Angeles, CA
  • Andrew S. Glasner, "How to Derive a Spectrum from an RGB Triplet", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , Vol 9, No. 4, July 1989, pages 95-99. [GRAD}
  • Brian Smits, " An RGB to Spectrum Converter for Reflectances ", Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol 4, No. 4, 1999, pp 11-22 .[GRAD]
  • Judith Gartaganis and John Tartar, "Wave Based Spectrum Rendering", Technical report, University of Alberta , TR90-13, May 1990. 
  • Garrett M. Johnson and Mark D. Fairchild, " Full Spectral Color Calculations in Realistic Image Synthesis ", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, [GRAD]
  • Greg Ward and Elena Eydelberg-Vileshin,  Picture Perfect RGB Rendering Using Spectral Prefiltering and Sharp Color Primaries ,'' Thirteenth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (2002), P. Debevec and S. Gibson (Editors), June 2002. [GRAD]
  • Dec 10 -- Objects, Transformations, Cameras

  • M.Potmesil and I. Chakravarty, "A Lens and Aperture Camera Model for Synthetic Image Generation",  Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 81,  pages 297-305. [GRAD]
  • Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell, and Pat Hanrahan, "A realistic camera model for computer graphics",  SIGGRAPH '95. Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM conference on Computer graphics, pages 317-324 [GRAD]
  • Wolfgang Heidrich, Phillip Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel, "An Image-Based Model for Realistic Lens Systems in Interactive Computer Graphics", Proceedings of Graphics Interface 97 , pp 68 - 75.[GRAD]
  • D. Doo and M. Sabin, Behaviour of Recursive Division Near Extraordinary Points, Computer Aided Design , Vol 10, No. 6, 1978 [GRAD]
  • E. Catmull abd J. Clark, "Recursive Generated B-Spline Surfaces on Arbitrary Topological Meshes", Computer Aided Design, Vol 10, No 6, 1978. [GRAD]
  • Dec 12 -- Material Properties, BRDF

  • R.L. Cook and K. Torrance, "A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '81, 1981, pages 307-316. [GRAD]
  • Gregory Ward, " Measuring and Modeling Ansiotropic Reflection " , Proceedings SIGGRAPH 92, pp265-272.[GRAD]
  • Xiao He, Kenneth Torrance, Francois Sillion, and Donald greenberg, "A Comprehensive Physical Model for Light Reflection", Proceedings SIGGRAPH 91 , pp 175-186. [GRAD]
  • Pierre Poulin and Alain Fournier, " Model for Ansiotropic Reflection", Proceedings SIGGRAPH 90, pp 273-282 [GRAD]
  • Kristin J. Dana, Bram Van Ginnekin, Shree K. Nayar, Jan J. Koenderink, "Reflectances and Texture of Real-World Surfaces, ACM Transaction on Graphics , Vol 18, No 1,  Jan 1999, pp 1 - 34 [GRAD].
  • Dec 17 -- Local Illumination

  • Paul Strauss, "A Realistic Lighting Model for Compute Graphics", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1990, pp 56-64.[GRAD]
  • Bui Tuong Phong, "Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures", Communications of the ACM, Vol 18, No 6, June 1975, 311-317 [GRAD]
  • James Blinn, "Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures", Computer Graphics, Volume 11, July 1977, 192-198.[GRAD]
  • Dec 19 -- Rendering Equation/Global Illumination

  • James Kajia, "The Rendering Equation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 86 , 1986, pages 143-150 [GRAD]
  • Jan 7 -- Ray Tracing Basics

  • Turner Whitted, "An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display", Communications of the ACM, June 1980, pages 343-349 [GRAD]
  • Steven Parker, William Martin, Peter-Pike J. Sloan, Peter Shirley, Brian Smits, and Charles Hansen, "Interactive ray tracing", Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics , pages 119-126 [GRAD].
  • Jan 9 -- Radiosity Basics

  • Cindy Goral, Kenneth Torrance, and Donald Greenberg, "Modeling the Interaction of Light between Diffuse Surfaces", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84, 1984, pages 213-222.[GRAD]
  • M.F. Cohen and D. Greenberg, "The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution of Complex Environments", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '85 , 1985, pages 31-40.[GRAD]
  • Jan 14 -- Advanced Ray Tracing

  • Rob L. Cook, Tom Porter, and Loren Carpenter, "Distributed Ray Tracing", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '84, 1984, pages 135-145.
  • Mikio Shinya abd Tokiichiro, "Principles and Applications of Pencil Tracing", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87, 1987, pp 45 - 54 [GRAD]
  • Paul Heckbert and Pat Hanrahan, "Beam Tracing Polygonal Objects", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84, 1984, pp 119 - 127 [GRAD]
  • John Amanatides, "Ray Tracing With Cones", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84, 1984, pp 129 - 135 [GRAD]
  • Jan 16 -- Advanced Radiosity

  • John Wallace, Michael Cohen, and Donald Greenberg, "A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering Equation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87, 1987, pages 311-324. [GRAD]
  • Jan 21 -- Procedural Shading

  • Rob L. Cook, "Shade Trees", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84 [GRAD],
  • Ken Perlin, "An Image Synthesizer", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 85, 1985, pages 287-296. [GRAD]
  • Jan 23 -- The Renderman Shading Language

  • Pat Hanrahan and Jim Lawson, "A language for shading and lighting calculations", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 90, 1990, pages 289-298 [GRAD].
  • Gritz, L. and Hahn, J.K, "BMRT: A Global Illumination Implementation of the RenderMan Standard", Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 29-47 (1996) [GRAD].
  • Jan 28 -- Texture Mapping

  • Jim Blinn, "Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '78 , 1978, pages 286-292 [GRAD].
  • Ned Green, "Environment Mapping and Other Applications of World Projections, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , November 1986,  pp 21 - 29 [GRAD],
  • Paul S. Heckbert, "A Survey of Texture Mapping", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , November 1986,[GRAD]
  • Jan 30 -- Procedural Models

  • K. Perlin and E. M. Hoffert, "Hypertexture", ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics , Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 1989), Pages 253-262.[GRAD] 
  • F.K. Musgrave, C.E. Kolb, and R.S. Mace, "The synthesis and rendering of eroded Fractal Terrains", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 89 , 1989, pages 41-50.[GRAD]
  • Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, and Loren Carpenter, "Computer Renderings of Stochastic Models", Communications of the ACM, June 1982, pages 371-384.[GRAD]
  • William T. Reeves, "Particle Systems -- A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects", ACM Transactions on Graphics, April 1983, Vol 2, No. 2.[GRAD]
  • Feb 4 -- Tone Reproduction Basics

  • J. Tublin and H. Rushmeier, "Tone Reproduction for Realistic Images", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 13(6), pp 42-48, November 1993. [GRAD]
  • J.A. Ferwerda, S.N. Pattanaik, P. Shirley, D.P. Greenberg, " A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis ", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings), pp.249-258, 1996. [GRAD]
  • G. Ward, "A Contrast-based Scalefactor for Luminance Display", in P.S. Heckbert (Ed), Graphics Gems IV, Boston: Academic Press Professional [GRAD]
  • Feb 6 -- Advanced Tone Reproduction

  • S. N. Pattanak, J.A. Ferwerda, M.D. Fairchild, and D.P. Greenberg, " A Multiscale Model of Adaptation and Spatial Vision for Realistic Image Display ", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ?98 Proceedings), pp 287-298, 1998. [GRAD]
  • J. Geigel,  F.K.Musgrave, " A Model for Simulating the Photographic Development Process on Digital Images ", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ?97 Proceedings) , pp 135-143, 1997. [GRAD]
  • Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischimski, and Michael Werman, Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression , ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 21, Number 3, July 2002 (SIGGRAPH 2002 Proceedings) [GRAD]
  • Erik Reinhard, Michael Stark, Peter Shirely, and James Ferwerda, Photographic Tone Reproduction for Digital Images , ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 21, Number 3, July 2002 (SIGGRAPH 2002 Proceedings) [GRAD]
  • Feb 11 -- Linear Pixel Shuffling

    Feb 13 -- Image Based Rendering 


    last updated 1/8/03