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- REFERENCES.DOC With a small description of each.
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- These references are all landmark papers in the field, and contain lot's
- of valuable information. Be ready to search for them (unless you live near
- something like a state university library), and be ready to think while you
- do your reading.
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- For a summary of these and other references, try this book:
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- Foley, J. D., and A. Van Dam.
- Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics.
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- Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts. (T385.F63)
- A very good introduction - summary. Good technical descriptions.
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- Hall, R. A., and Greenberg, D. P.
- A testbed for realistic image synthesis.
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 3, 10, Nov. 1983, Pages 10-20.
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- An informative article, touching many bases. In many ways a summary
- of his (Hall's) Master's Thesis listed elsewhere in this reference.
- Describes Hall's improvement on the Whitted lighting model.
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- Bui Tuong Phong.
- Illumination for Computer-Generated Images.
- PhD dissertation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1971.
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- One of the first lighting models to do more than calculate surface
- to light angle, it could simulate the global, diffuse, and specular
- lighting components.
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- Turner Whitted.
- An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display.
- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, No. 6, June 1980, Pages 343-349.
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- Improves on Phong's lighting model.
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- James F. Blinn.
- Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures.
- Computer Graphics (Proc. Siggraph '77), Vol 11, No. 2, Summer 1977.
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- Comparison of a couple lighting models.
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- I. E. Sutherland, R. F. Sproull, and R. A. Schumaker.
- A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surfaces Algorithms.
- Comput. Surv. 6, 1, March 1974, Pages 1-55.
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- Great summary of different image generation shortcut's, their
- features and problems.
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- Roy A. Hall.
- A Methodology for Realistic Image Synthesis.
- Master's Thesis, Cornell University, 1983.
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- An excellent reference, with emphasis on color calculation.
- Improves upon the Whitted lighting algorithm.
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- Hank Weghorst, Gary Hooper, and Donald P. Greenberg.
- Improved Computational Methods for Ray Tracing.
- ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 3, No. 1, January 1984, Pages 52-69.
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- Good reference describing heirarchical 3-D databases, and
- their use in ray tracing.
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- Peter Beckmann and Andre Spizzichio.
- The Scattering of Electromagnetic waves from Rough Surfaces.
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- MacMillan, New York, 1963, Pages 1-33, 70-98.
- This reference is where much of the basic idea of tracing rays to
- to simulate light rays came from (light rays are electromagnetic
- waves). This is the earliest reference in the list.
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