Computer Animation - Reading List

Computer Graphics II

4003-571 / 4005-762 (Spring 2013)

REQUIRED READING

Please note that students taking this class for undergrad credit must submit summaries for the primary paper.
Students taking this class for grad credit must submit summaries the primary paper as well as one supplementary paper.

Except for week 1, paper summaries are due before lecture on Monday. Late submissions will not be accepted

Papers are available electronically by following the links (DCE Authentication Required).

This list may be updated appropriately as the course progresses.

Week 1 -- Introduction / Setting the Scene

Primary:

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.

Supplemental:

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.
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.

Week 2 -- Light, Cameras, and Ray Tracing

Primary:

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.

Supplemental:

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).

Week 3 -- Sampling & Antialiasing

Primary:

Franklin C. Crow, The aliasing problem in computer-generated shaded images, Communications of the ACM, Volume 20 , Issue 11 (November 1977), pp 799 - 805.

Supplemental:

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.

Week 4 -- Illumination Models

Primary:

Edward H. Adelson, "On Seeing Stuff: The Perception of Materials by Humans and Machines", Proceedings of the. SPIE Vol. 4299, pp. 1-12, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI, B. E. Rogowitz; T. N. Pappas; Eds. (2001) -- [available on mycourses]

Supplemental:

Colbert, M. ; Pattanaik, S. ; Krivanek, J. , "BRDF-Shop: creating physically correct bidirectional reflectance distribution functions", Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, Volume: 26 , Issue: 1: 2006 , pp 30-36.

Kurt, M. and Edwards, D. 2009. A survey of BRDF models for computer graphics. SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 43, 2 (May. 2009), 1-7.
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.

Week 5 -- Textures

Primary:

Paul S. Heckbert, "A Survey of Texture Mapping" (figures), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1986, pp. 56-67

Supplemental:

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.

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.

Week 6 -- Procedural Shading / RenderMan

Primary:

Pat Hanrahan and Jim Lawson, "A language for shading and lighting calculations", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1990, pp. 289-298.

Supplemental:

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).
Philipp Slusallek, Thomas Pflaum, Hans-Peter Seidel, Implementing RenderMan: Practice, Problems and Enhancements, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics '94)
Ken Perlin, "An Image Synthesizer", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1985, pp. 287-296.
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.

Week 7 -- Rendering Equation / Advanced Ray Tracing

Primary:

James Kajiya, "The Rendering Equation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1986, pp. 143-150.
Turner Whitted, "An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display", Communications of the ACM, June 1980, pp. 343-349.

Supplemental:

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.
Matt Pharr and Pat Hanrahan, "Monte Carlo evaluation of non-linear scattering equations for subsurface reflection", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pp75-84.
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.

Week 8 -- Advanced Camera Models / Tone Reproduction

Primary:

J. Tublin and H. Rushmeier, "Tone Reproduction for Realistic Images", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 42-48, November 1993.

Supplementary:

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.

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.

Week 9 -- Advanced Tone Reproduction / High Dynamic Range Images

Primary:

Ward, Gregory, "High Dynamic Range Imaging," Proceedings of the Ninth Color Imaging Conference, November 2001.

Supplemental:

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.

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.

last updated 02/26/13