2008-2 READING LIST

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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. [RESV]
• Andrew Glassner, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, Vols 1 and 2, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995  [RESV]

References on Renderman:

• The Renderman Companion, Steve Upstill, Addison Wesley, 1990. [RESV] 
• Advanced Renderman, Anthony Apodaca and Larry Gritz, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000

Dec 1 -- Introduction

• Joe Geigel and Nan C. Schaller, Using photography as a metaphor for teaching image synthesis, Computers and Graphics, 29 (2), pp 257-265.

• Donald P. Greenberg, et al, "A framework for realistic image synthesis",Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1997, pp. 477-494.

Dec 3 -- Setting the Scene

• James F. Blinn. "Vectors and Geometry and Objects, Oh My!," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 25,  no. 3,  pp. 84-93,  May/June  2005.

• Paul S. Strauss and Rikk Carey, "An object-oriented 3D graphics toolkit", Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp 341 - 349, 1992.

• Gerd Hesina, Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Furhmann, Werner Purgathofer, Distributed Open Inventor: a practical approach to distributed 3D graphics, Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, 1999, pp.74 - 81 .

• Larry Koved, Wayne L. Wooten, "GROOP: an object-oriented toolkit for animated 3D graphics", Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA 1993), pp 309 - 325.

Dec 8 -- Procedural Models 

• E. Catmull and J. Clark, "Recursively Generated B-Spline Surfaces on Arbitrary Topological Meshes", Computer Aided Design, Vol 10, No 6, 1978. [E-RESV]

• D. Doo and M. Sabin, "Behaviour of Recursive Division Near Extraordinary Points", Computer Aided Design, Vol 10, No. 6, 1978.  [E-RESV]
• F.K. Musgrave, C.E. Kolb, and R.S. Mace, "The synthesis and rendering of eroded Fractal Terrains", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1989, pp. 41-50. 
• Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, and Loren Carpenter, "Computer Renderings of Stochastic Models", Communications of the ACM, June 1982, pp. 371-384.
• William T. Reeves, "Particle Systems -- A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects", ACM Transactions on Graphics, April 1983, Vol. 2, No. 2.
• K. Perlin and E. M. Hoffert, "Hypertexture", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1989, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 253-262.
• Optional Reading:
  • Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, Ebert et al, Morgan Kaufman, 2003.
  • The Science of Fractal Images, Peitgen et al., Springer-Verlag, 1988.
  • The Beauty of Fractals, Peitgen, Springer-Verlag, 1986.
  • Lindenmayer systems, fractals, and plants, Prusinkiewicz, Springer-Verlag, 1989.
  • The Algoritmic Beauty of Plants, Prusinkiewicz and lindenmeyer, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Dec 10 -- Light / Ray Tracing

• Turner Whitted, "An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display", Communications of the ACM, June 1980, pp. 343-349. 
• 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, pp. 119-126
• Sven Woop, Jörg Schmittler, Philipp Slusallek,  .RPU: a programmable ray processing unit for realtime ray tracing, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG),  Volume 24 ,  Issue 3  (July 2005)Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, pp 434 - 444.
• Optional Reading:
  • HyperGraph material on ray tracing
  • Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner, editor, Academic Press, 1989.
  • Realistic Ray Tracing, Peter Shirley, A K Peters publisher, 2000.

Dec 15  -- Sampling / Anti-aliasing

• Franklin C. Crow,  The aliasing problem in computer-generated shaded images, Communications of the ACM, Volume 20 ,  Issue 11  (November 1977), pp 799 - 805. 
• Don P. Mitchell, Arun N. Netravali, Reconstruction filters in computer-graphics, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH 88), pp 221 - 228.
• Optional Reading
  • Chapter 15 of Principles of Digital Image Synthesis (Vol. 2)
  • Chapter 14.10 in Foley and Van Dam
  • Unit II in Vol. 1 of Glassner
  • Digital Image Processing, Kenneth Castleman, Prentice Hall, 1995.

Dec 17  -- Material Properties / BRDF

• R. L. Cook and K. Torrance "A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics" ACM Transactions on Graphics, pp. 7-24, 1982.

• Paul Strauss, "A Realistic Lighting Model for Computer Graphics", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1990, pp. 56-64. 

• Bui Tuong Phong, "Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 18, No. 6, June 1975, pp. 311-317 

• James Blinn, "Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures", Computer Graphics, Volume 11, July 1977, pp. 192-198.

Jan 5 -- Advanced Illumination Models

• Gregory Ward, "Measuring and Modeling Ansiotropic Reflection", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1992, pp. 265-272.

• Xiao He, Kenneth Torrance, Francois Sillion, and Donald Greenberg, "A Comprehensive Physical Model for Light Reflection", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1991, pp. 175-186.
• Pierre Poulin and Alain Fournier, "Model for Ansiotropic Reflection", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1990, pp. 273-282. 
• 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.
• Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, and Pat Hanrahan, "A practical model for subsurface light transport", Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, 2001, pp 511 - 518
• Hao, X. and Varshney, A. 2004. "Real-time rendering of translucent meshes". ACM Trans. Graph. 23, 2 (Apr. 2004), 120-142.

Jan 7 -- Texture Mapping

• Jim Blinn, "Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1978, pp. 286-292.  
• Ned Greene, "Environment Mapping and Other Applications of World Projections", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1986, pp. 21-29.  [E-RESV]
• Paul S. Heckbert, "A Survey of Texture Mapping" (figures), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1986, pp. 56-67. 

Jan 12 -- Procedural Shading

• Karl Sims, "Artificial evolution for computer graphics", ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Vol. 25, Issue 4, July 1991, pp. 319-328 
• Rob L. Cook, "Shade Trees", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1984, pp. 223-231. 
• Ken Perlin, "An Image Synthesizer", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1985, pp. 287-296. 
• Optional Reading:
  • Ken Perlin's Noise Page
  • Perlin Noise and Turbulence by Paul Bourke
  • Chapter 2 in Texture & Modeling: A Procedural Approach, D. Ebert, et. al., Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
  • Watt and Watt, Chapter 6.
  • http://www.genarts.com/karl/genetic-images.html

Jan 14 -- RenderMan Shading Language

• Pat Hanrahan and Jim Lawson, "A language for shading and lighting calculations", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1990, pp. 289-298. 
• 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).  [E-RESV]
• Philipp Slusallek, Thomas Pflaum, Hans-Peter Seidel, Implementing RenderMan: Practice, Problems and Enhancements, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics '94) 
• Optional Reading:
  • The Renderman Companion, Steve Upstill, Addison Wesley, 1990.
  •  Advanced Renderman, Anthony Apodaca and Larry Gritz, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000
  • Renderman for Poets -- a concise guide for getting started with Renderman written by Larry Gritz, creator of BMRT

Jan 19 -- Rendering Equation / Recursive Ray Tracing

• James Kajiya, "The Rendering Equation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1986, pp. 143-150.
• Matt Pharr and Pat Hanrahan, "Monte Carlo evaluation of non-linear scattering equations for subsurface reflection", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pp75-84.

Jan 21 -- Advanced Ray Tracing

• Rob L. Cook, Tom Porter, and Loren Carpenter, "Distributed Ray Tracing", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1984, pp. 135-145. 
• Paul Heckbert and Pat Hanrahan, "Beam Tracing Polygonal Objects", (available from this page in postscript format) Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1984, pp. 119-127. 
• John Amanatides, "Ray Tracing With Cones", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1984, pp. 129-135. 
• Henrik Wann Jensen, Per H. Christensen, "Efficient simulation of light transport in scenes with participating media using photon maps", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1998, pp  311-320.
• Optional Reading
  • Chapters 8-10 in Watt and Watt
  • Section 16.12 in Foley and Van Dam
  • HyperGraph materials on advanced ray tracing
  • Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner, editor, Academic Press, 1989.
  • Realistic Ray Tracing, Peter Shirley, A K Peters publisher, 2000.

Jan 26 -- Radiometry / Advanced Camera Models

• Lighting
  • 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, Appendix A, pp. 183-194. [E-RESV]
  • Julie O'B. Dorsey, Françis X. Sillion, Donald P. Greenberg, "Design and simulation of opera lighting and projection effects", ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics , Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, 25 (4), July 1991, pp 41 -- 50.
  • Julie Dorsey, James Arvo, Donald Greenberg, "Interactive Design of Complex Time-Dependent Lighting", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 15 (2), March 1995, pp 26 - 36.
  •  Magy Seif El-Nasr, Ian Horswill, "Automating Lighting Design for Interactive Entertainment", Computers in Entertainment (CIE), 2(2), April 2004, pp 15-15.
  • Ronen Barzel, "Lighting Controls for Computer Cinematography", Journal of graphics tools 2(1):1-20, 1997.

• Advanced Camera Models
  • M.Potmesil and I. Chakravarty, "A Lens and Aperture Camera Model for Synthetic Image Generation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1981, pp. 297-305. 
  • Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell, and Pat Hanrahan, "A realistic camera model for computer graphics", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1995, pp. 317-324. 
  • 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. 

• Optional Reading:
  • Sharon Calahan, "Storytelling through Lighting: A Computer Graphics Perspective", in Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, A.A. Apodaca and L.Gritz, ed, Morgan-Kauffman, 1999. [E-RESV]
  • Fabio Pellacini, Kiril Vidimce, "Cinematic Lighting"in GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Trickes for Real-time Graphics, R. Fernando, ed, Addison-Wesley. 2003, Chapter 10. [E-RESV]
  • Shakespeare, Robert, "Dramatic Lighting" in Greg Ward Larson and Rob A. Shakespeare, Rendering with Radiance:The Art and Science of Lighting Visualization,  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, Chapter 8.[E-RESV]

Jan 28 -- Color

• Andrew S. Glasner, "How to Derive a Spectrum from an RGB Triplet", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 4, July 1989, pp. 95-99. 
• Brian Smits, "An RGB to Spectrum Converter for Reflectances", Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol 4, No. 4, 1999, pp. 11-22. 
• Garrett M. Johnson and Mark D. Fairchild, "Full Spectral Color Calculations in Realistic Image Synthesis", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 47-53 (1999). 
• Greg Ward and Elena Eydelberg-Vileshin, "Picture Perfect RGB Rendering Using Spectral Prefiltering and Sharp Color Primaries", Rendering Techniques 2002: 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering. pp. 117-124, P. Debevec and S. Gibson (Editors), June 2002. 
• Optional Reading:
• Judith Gartaganis and John Tartar, "Wave Based Spectrum Rendering", ( Part 1 and Part 2) Technical report, University of Alberta, TR90-13, May 1990. [E-RESV]
• Digital Color Management Encoding Solutions, Giorgianni and Madden,Addison-Wesley, 1998.
• Technical Introduction to Digital Video, Charles Poynton.
• Color Sciencs Concepts and Methods, Stiles, Wyszecki.
• http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color

Feb 2 -- Tone Reproduction

• J. Tublin and H. Rushmeier, "Tone Reproduction for Realistic Images", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 42-48, November 1993. 
• J.A. Ferwerda, S.N. Pattanaik, P. Shirley, D.P. Greenberg, "A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis",, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1996, pp. 249-258. 
• G. Ward, "A Contrast-based Scalefactor for Luminance Display", Graphics Gems IV, P.S. Heckbert (Ed), Boston: Academic Press Professional, pp. 415-421, 1994.  [E-RESV]
• Optional Reading:
  • Kate Devlin, et al.,STAR: Tone Reproduction and Physically Based Spectral Rendering", State of the Art Reports, Eurographics 2002, pages 101-123. The Eurographics Association, September 2002.
  • http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Ereinhard/cdrom/
  • Chapter 20 in Glassner

Feb 4 -- 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", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1998, pp. 287-298. 
• J. Geigel, F.K.Musgrave, "A Model for Simulating the Photographic Development Process on Digital Images" Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1997, pp. 135-143. 
• Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischimski, and Michael Werman, "Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 3, July 2002. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002), pp. 249-256. 
• Erik Reinhard, Michael Stark, Peter Shirley, and James Ferwerda, "Photographic tone reproduction for digital images", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, Volume 21 Issue 3, July 2002.

Feb 9 -- High Dynamic Range Images

• Ward, Gregory, "High Dynamic Range Imaging," Proceedings of the Ninth Color Imaging Conference, November 2001.
• Larson, G.W., "Overcoming Gamut and Dynamic Range Limitations in Digital Images," Proceedings of the Sixth Color Imaging Conference, November 1998.
• Paul Debevec, "Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes: Bridging Traditional and Image-based Graphics with Global Illumination and High Dynamic Range Photography", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1998, pp. 189-198.
• Seetzen, Helge, W. Heidrich, W. Stuezlinger, G. Ward, L. Whitehead, M. Trentacoste, A. Ghosh, A. Vorozcovs, "High Dynamic Range Display Systems," ACM Trans. Graph. (special issue SIGGRAPH 2004), August 2004.
• Optional Reading:
  • Reinhard, Erik, G. Ward, S. Pattanaik, P. Debevec, High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2005.
  • http://www.debevec.org/HDRShop/
  • http://www.debevec.org/
  • SIGGRAPH 1999 Course 39: Image-Based Modeling, Rendering and Lighting
  • SIGGRAPH 2003 Course 19: HDRI and Image-Based Lighting

Feb 11 -- Radiosity

• Cindy Goral, Kenneth Torrance, and Donald Greenberg, "Modeling the Interaction of Light between Diffuse Surfaces", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1984, pp. 213-222. 
• M.F. Cohen and D. Greenberg, "The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution of Complex Environments", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1985, pp. 31-40.
• John Wallace, Michael Cohen, and Donald Greenberg, "A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering Equation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1987, pp. 311-324. 
• Holly E. Rushmeier and Kenneth E. Torrance, "Extending the radiosity method to include specularly reflecting and translucent materials", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 9 , Issue 1 (January 1990), pp. 1-27. 
• Optional Reading:
• HyperGraph material on Radiosity
• Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis, Cohen and Wallace, Academic Press Professional, 1993.
• Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective, Ian Ashdown, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
• Radiosity & Global Illumination, Sillion and Puech, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.