Seminal Graphics

Pioneering Efforts That Shaped The Field

Edited by Rosalee Wolfe

A juried collection of forty-eight of the most important papers in the computer graphics field, including many older documents difficult to find elsewhere.
Perfect-bound, 445pp.

ISBN 1-58113-052-X
ACM Order Number 435985

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Table of Contents

Visibility

• Be Vision, a Package of IBM 7090 FORTRAN Programs to Drive Views of Combinations of Plane and Quadric Surfaces
  R. Weiss

• The Notion of Quantitative Invisibility and the Machine Rendering of Solids
  A. Appel

• A Solution to the Hidden Surface Problem
  M. Newell, R. Newell and T. Sancha

• Computer Display of Curved Surfaces
  E. Catmull

• Hierarchical Geometric Models for Visible Surface Algorithms
  J. Clark

• Casting Curved Shadows on Curved Surfaces
  L. Williams

Antialiasing

• Pyramidal Parametrics
  L. Williams

• Distributed Raytracing
  R. Cook, T. Porter and L. Carpenter

Animation

• Computer Generated Animation of Faces
  F. Parke

• Interactive Skeleton Techniques for Enhancing Motion Dynamics in Key Frame Animation
  N. Burtnyk and M. Wein

• Computational Modeling for the Computer Animation of Legged Figures
  M. Girard and A. Maciejewski

• Principles of Animation as Applied to 3D Character Animation
  J. Lasseter

• Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavior Model
  C. Reynolds

Architecture

• On the Design of Display Processors
  T. Myer and I. Sutherland

• A Head-Mounted Three-Dimensional Display
  I. Sutherland

• Scanned Display of Computer Graphics
  M. Noll

• Distributing A Visible Surface Algorithm Over Multiple Processors
  H. Fuchs

• A Random-Access Video Frame Buffer
  J. Kajiya, I. Sutherland and E. Cheadle

• The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics
  J. Clark

Shading

• Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures
  B. Phong

• Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures
  J. Blinn

• An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display
  T. Whitted

• Shade Trees
  R. Cook

• Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces
  C. Goral, K. Torrence, D. Greenberg and B. Battaile

• An Image Synthesizer
  K. Perlin

• The Rendering Equation
  J. Kajiya

• Ray Tracing JELL-O(tm) Brand Gelatin
  P. Heckbert

• A Progressive Refinement Approach to Fast Radiosity Image Generation
  M. Cohen, S. Chen, J. Wallace and D. Greenberg

Modeling

• Recursively Generated B-spline Surfaces on Arbitrary Topological Meshes
  E. Catmull and J. Clark

• Computer Rendering of Stochastic Models
  A. Fournier, D. Fussell and L. Carpenter

• Particle Systems: A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects
  W. Reeves

• Global and Local Deformations of Solid Primitives
  A. Barr

Rendering from Samples

• Color Image Quantization for Frame Buffer Display
  P. Heckbert

• Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm
  W. Lorensen and H. Cline

• Compositing Digital Images
  T. Porter and T. Duff

• Volume Rendering
  R. Drebin, L. Carpenter and P. Hanrahan

• Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis
  T. Beier and S. Neely

• View Interpolation for Image Synthesis
  S. Chen and L. Williams

Foundations

• A System for Interactive Graphical Programming
  W. Newman

• The Art of Natural Graphic Man-Machine Conversation
  J. Foley and V. Wallace