CS 970: Presentations and Projects

Topics

1. Texture Synthesis
   • Greg Turk. Generating textures for arbitrary surfaces using reaction-diffusion, SIGGRAPH 91, pp. 289-298.
   • Andrew Witkin and Michael Kass. Reaction-diffusion textures, SIGGRAPH 91, pp. 299-308.
   • Ken Perlin. An Image Synthesizer, SIGGRAPH 85, pp. 287-296.
2. Texture Mapping
   • Fabrice Neyret and Marie-Paule Cani. Pattern-Based Texturing Revisited, SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 235-242.
   • Homan Igehy. Tracing Ray Differentials, SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 179-186.
   • Pat Hanrahan and Paul E. Haeberli. Direct WYSIWYG Painting and Texturing on 3D Shapes, SIGGRAPH 90, pp. 215-223.
3. Hardware Assistance
   • Presentation from nVidia Corp. on programmable vertex shaders, at www.nvidia.com/attach/1118.
   • Sample of vertex shader tricks, at www.nvidia.com/attach/1465.
   • W.R. Mark, R.S. Glanville, K. Akeley, M.J. Kilgard, Cg: a system for programming graphics hardware in a C-like language, SIGGRAPH '03, 896-907.
   • Several papers on exotic uses of GPU's in Siggraph '03
   • Several papers on exotic uses of GPU's in the Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol.7, #2.
   • Peter Wonka and Dieter Schmalsteig. Occluder Shadows for Fast Walkthroughs of Urban Environments, Computer Graphics Forum, 18(3), pp. 51-60 (September 1999).
   • Michael F. Cohen and Donald P. Greenberg. The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments, SIGGRAPH 85, pp. 31-40.
   • Haeberli & Akeley, The accumulation buffer: Hardware support for high-quality rendering, SIGGRAPH'90, pp 309-318.
4. Reflectance Models
   • Pierre Poulin and Alain Fournier. A Model for Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH 90, pp. 273-282.
   • Jos Stam. Diffraction Shaders, SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 101-110.
   • Paul S. Strauss. A Realistic Lighting Model for Computer Animators, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 10 (6), pp. 56-64 (November 1990).
   • Gregory J. Ward Larson. Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH 92, pp. 265-272.
5. Shadows
   • Andrew Woo and Pierre Poulin and Alain Fournier. A Survey of Shadow Algorithms, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 10(6), pp. 13-32 (November 1990).
   • Norman Chin and Steven Feiner. Near Real-Time Shadow Generation Using BSP Trees, SIGGRAPH 89, pp. 99-106.
   • Stewart & Ghali, Fast computation of shadow boundaries using spatial coherence and backprojections, SIGGRAPH'94, pg 231.
   • Seth J. Teller. Computing the Antipenumbra of an Area Light Source, SIGGRAPH 92, pp. 139-148.
6. Sampling and Bidirectional Ray Tracing
   • Kirk, Arvo, Unbiased sampling techniques for image synthesis, SIGGRAPH'91, pg 153.
   • Heckbert, Adaptive radiosity textures for bidirectional ray tracing, SIGGRAPH'90, pp 145-154.
   • Veach and Guibas, Optimally combining sampling techniques for Monte Carlo rendering, SIGGRAPH'95, pp 419-428
   • Veach & Guibas, Metropolis light transport, SIGGRAPH'97, pp 65-76.
7. Non-Photorealistic Rendering
   • E. Praun, H. Hoppe, M. Webb, A. Finkelstein Real-Time Hatching, SIGGRAPH 2001, pages 579-584.
   • Lots of papers at http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr.
   • Cassidy J. Curtis and Sean E. Anderson and Joshua E. Seims and Kurt W. Fleischer and David H. Salesin. Computer-Generated Watercolor, SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 421-430.
   • A. Hausner, Simulating Decorative Mosaics, SIGGRAPH 01.
8. Volume Rendering
   • David Laur and Pat Hanrahan, Hierarchical Splatting: A Progressive Refinement Algorithm for Volume Rendering, SIGGRAPH 91.
   • Philippe Lacroute and Marc Levoy, Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation, SIGGRAPH '94.
9. Rendering Large Scenes
   • A. J. Stewart, `` Hierarchical visibility in terrains,'' Eurographics Rendering Workshop, June 1997, pp 217-228.
   • Thomas A. Funkhouser, Carlo. H. Sequin, and Seth J. Teller, Management of Large Amounts of Data in Interactive Building Walkthroughs. Computer Graphics (1992 SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics)
   • Other papers available (ask the prof.)
10. Atmospheric Phenomena
    • H.W. Jensen, S.R. Marschner, M. Levoy, and P. Hanrahan, A practical model for subsurface light transport, in SIGGRAPH '01, 511-518.
    • H.W. Jensen, F. Durand, J. Dorsey, M.M. Stark, P. Shirley, S. Premoze, A physically-based night sky model, SIGGRAPH '01, 399 - 408.
    • A. J. Preetham , P. Shirley , B. Smits, A practical analytic model for daylight, SIGGRAPH '99, 91-100.
    • T. Nishita, Y. Dobashi and E. Nakamae, Display of Clouds Taking Into Account Multiple Anisotropic Scattering and Skyligh, SIGGRAPH '96, 379-386.