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A curated list of computer graphics tutorials and resources

Curated list of computer graphics tutorials and resources

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Computer Graphics Resources / Contents
Ke-Sen Huang's Website
extremeistan's realtime GI collection
realtimerendering.com
Generative Art Links at hvidtfeldts.net
CS6630 Cornell University - Realistic Image Synthesis
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs6630/2012sp/schedule.stm
CMU 15-462/662
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, (Hughes 2013)
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, 2nd Edition (Pharr 2010)

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents / Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, 2nd Edition (Pharr 2010)
won an Academy Award at the Oscars! THE Rendering Book. It also

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents
GPU Gems 3, by NVIDIA
Takua Renderer by Karl Li
The Pianist , by Leticia Reinaldo
Classroom Scene by Meny Hilsenrad
. Eric Veach. PhD Thesis, Stanford University, 1997
Analytic Methods for Simulated Light Transport . James Avro. PhD Thesis, Yale University, December 1995
James T. Kajiya. SIGGRAPH 1986
Simple PathTracing by Inigo Quilez
smallpt (pathtracer in 99 lines of code) by Kevin Beason
. Jensen, H. W. Rendering Techniques 1996
Photon Mapping by Zack Waters
Veach & Guibas. Proceedings of EGRW 1994
Veach & Guibas. SIGGRAPH 1997
Mitsuba Renderer MLT is notoriously difficult to implement
Peter Kutz's BPT+MLT Blog
Keller, A. SIGGRAPH 1997
Cornell CS663 Presentation on the Paper
. Siggraph 2010
Monte Carlo Techniques for Direct Lighting Calculations Shirley et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics 1996
Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering Veach & Guibas. SIGGRAPH 1995
Gradient-domain metropolis light transport . Lehtinen et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2013
Gradient-domain Path Tracing . Kettunen et al 2015
A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise . SIGGRAPH 2015
. Nicodemus et al. (U.S.) monograph, issued October 1977
A microfacet-based BRDF generator . Ashikhmin and Shirley. SIGGRAPH 2000
A precomputed polynomial representation for interactive BRDF editing with global illumination Ben-Artzi et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008
A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics . Cook & Torrance. Computer Graphics. 14(3), pp. 307-316. 1981
Theory for Off-specular Reflection from Roughened Surfaces . Torrance & Sparrow. Journal of the Optical Society of America 57:9 (1967)
Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures James F. Blinn, SIGGRAPH 1977

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents / Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures
Blinn-Phong This paper reviews Torrance-Sparrow, Phong model, and proposes the shading model as a computationally efficient alternative

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents
Shadowing by Non-Gaussian Random Surfaces . Garry S. Brown, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagaion (1980)
A data-driven reflectance model Matusik et al. SIGGRAPH 2003
Experimental analysis of BRDF models . Ngan et al. Proceedings of the 2005 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
A model for anisotropic reflection . Poulin & Fournier. SIGGRAPH 1990
Generalization of the Lambertian Model and Implications for Machine Vision . Oren & Nayar. International Journal of Computer Vision 14:3 (1995)
Bidirectional Reflection Distribution Function of Thoroughly Pitted Surfaces . Koenderink et al. International Journal of Computer Vision 31 (1999)
. Ikits et al. GPU Gems, Pearson Education, 2004
A Survey on Participating Media Rendering Techniques . Cerezo et al. Visual Computer, 2005
A Radiative Transfer Framework for Rendering Materials with Anisotropic Structure
Interactive multiple anisotropic scattering in clouds . Bouthors et al. Proceedings of I3D 2008
Unifying points, beams, and paths in volumetric light transport simulation . Křivánek et al. SIGGRAPH 2014
Scalable and Heterogeneous Rendering of Subsurface Scattering Materials Arbree. PhD Thesis, Cornell University, 2009
Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media . Novak et al. 2012 SIGGRAPH 2012
Ray tracing volume densities . Kajiya & von Herzen.SIGGRAPH 1984, July 1984
Semi-Automatic Generation of Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering . Kindlmann & Durkin. IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization 1998
GigaVoxels: ray-guided streaming for efficient and detailed voxel rendering . Crassin et al. I3D 2009
Reflection from Layered Surfaces Due to Subsurface Scattering . Hanrahan & Krueger. SIGGRAPH 1993
Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media . Akira Ishimaru. Chapter 7 in Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, Volume 1. Academic Press, 1978
A model for volume lighting and modeling . Kniss et al. IEEE TVCG 9:2 (2003)
Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation . Lacroute & Levoy. SIGGRAPH 1994
Efficient Simulation of Light Transport in Scene with Participating Media using Photon Maps . Jensen & Christensen. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98
A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport . Jensen et all. Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001
A Rapid Hierarchical Rendering Technique for Translucent Materials . Jensen & Buhler. SIGGRAPH 2002
Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering . Kniss et al. IEEE TVGG 2002
Practical Rendering of Multiple Scattering Effects in Participating Media . Premoze et al. Rendering Techniques 2004: 15th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering
Physically-based simulation of rainbows . Sadeghi et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(1), (2012)
Acquiring the reflectance field of a human face . Debevec et al. SIGGRAPH 2000
A Dual Light Stage . Hawkins et al. Proceedings of EGSR 2005
Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images . Durand & Dorsey. SIGGRAPH 2002
DISCO: acquisition of translucent objects . Goesele et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 23(3), pp. 835-844, 2004
The Lumigraph . Gortler et al. Siggraph 1996
Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second . Raskar et al
Gradient domain high dynamic range compression . Fattal et al. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002
. Timo Aila and Samuli Laine. Proc. High-Performance Graphics 2009
Kepler and Fermi architecture Addendum . NVIDIA Technical Report 2012
. Cline et al. 2005. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 24(3) (2005)
Implementation Details
Lightcuts: a scalable approach to illumination Walter et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics 2005
Sorted Deferred Shading for Production Path Tracing . Eisenacher et al. EGSR 2013
Light transport simulation with vertex connection and merging . Georgiev et al. SIGGRAPH 2012
Reconstructing the indirect light field for global illumination Lehtinen et al. SIGGRAPH 2012
Global illumination with radiance regression functions (SIGGAPH 2013)

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents / Global illumination with radiance regression functions
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Computer Graphics Resources / Contents
Temporal light field reconstruction for rendering distribution effects . Lehtinen et al. SIGGRAPH 2011
The Secret Life of Photons Light transport tutorial
Tutorial on Spherical Harmonics (2003)
Interactive Display of Isosurfaces with Global Illumination . Wyman et al. IEEE TVGG 2006
John Carmack's Fast Inverse Square Root
Pixar 2013
Meier, Barbara. Disney Animation Research, 1996
Stylizing Animation by Example . Pixar Animation. 2013
Coherent Noise for Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Path tracing fractals by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen
Arlo ... in a fragment shader by Inigo Quilez
ShaderToy A big collection of awesome fragment shaders. Many of these use cool tricks to do cheap lighting and imgae-space effects like blur/vignetting
Articles by Inigo Quilez
Generative Art Links
video demo an outline of the techniques used in the snow simulation for Disney's Frozen
Augmented MPM for phase-change and varied materials . Stomakhin et al. SIGGRAPH 2014
Asynchronous Contact Mechanics . Harmon et al. ACM communications 2012
Excellent Youtube Talk
Globally Optimal Direction Fields . Knöppel et al. SIGGRAPH 2014
. 2013
Pixie Dust: Graphics Generated by Levitated and Animated Objects in Computational Acoustic-Potential Field
Three Dimensional Images in the Air
. Ju, Schaefer, Warren. ACM Trans. on Graphics 2005
Feature Adaptive GPU Rendering of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces
Debevec & Malik 1997. In SIGGRAPH 97 (August 1997)
Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis . Furukawa and Ponce 2010

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents / Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis
Yasutaka Furukawa

Computer Graphics Resources / Contents
Structure-aware Hair Capture . Luo, Li, Rusinkiewicz. Siggraph 2013
Interactive digital photomontage Agarwala et al. ACM Trans. on Graphics, 23(3):294--302, Aug. 2004
Light field rendering . Levoy & Hanrahan. Siggraph 1996
Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D . Snavely, Seitz, Szzeliski. Siggraph 2006
First Person Hyperlapse Videos Microsoft Research 2014
PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing . Barnes et al. Siggraph 2009
Efficient Gradient-Domain Compositing Using Quadtrees . ACM Trans. Graph. 2007
is a good resource to get started learning about VR / stereo rendering
Good Stereo vs. Bad Stereo
Implementing Stereoscopic 3D in your applications
John Carmack's Oculus Connect 2015 talk
Why You Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon

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