Shoulders Of Giants

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Shoulders Of Giants

Historical papers that massively affected the field of Computer Graphics.

1950-1960

1960-1970

1970-1980

1980-1990

1990-2000

1950-1960

1959

de Casteljau, Paul. Courbes a Poles [PDF does not exist. Please help!]
Paul de Casteljau talks about his method in retrospect, in Fundamental Developments of Computer-Aided Geometric Modelling (1993)

1960-1970

1963

Sutherland, Ivan. Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system

1967

Coons, Steven. Surfaces For Computer-Aided Design of Space Forms

Verlet, Loup. Computer "Experiments" on Classical Fluids .I. Thermodynamical Properties of Lennard-Jones Molecules

1968

Sutherland, Ivan. A Head-Mounted Three Dimensional Display

1970-1980

1972

De Boor, Carl. On Calculating With B-Splines

1975

Phong, Bui Tong. Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures

1977

Blinn, James. Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures

1978

Catmull, Edwin & Clark, James. Recursively Generated B-spline Surfaces On Arbitrary Topology Meshes

Williams, Lance. Casting Curved Shadows On Curved Surfaces

1979

Whitted, James Turner. An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display

1980-1990

1982

Blinn, James. A generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing

Cook, Robert & Torrance, Kenneth. A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics

1986

Kajiya, James. The Rendering Equation

1987

Cook, Robert, Carpenter, Loren & Catmull, Edwin. The Reyes Image Rendering Architecture

Lorensen William, Cline, Harvey . Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm

1988

Pineda, Juan. A Parallel Algorithm for Polygon Rasterization

Drebin,Robert, Carpenter,Loren & Hanrahan,Pat. Volume Rendering

Brackbill, J., Kothe, Douglas & Ruppel, H.M. FLIP: A Low-Dissipation, Particle-in-Cell Method for Fluid Flow

1989

Hart.John C., Sandin,Daniel J., Kauffman,Louis H. Ray Tracing Deterministic 3-D Fractals

1990-2000

1997

Veach, Eric. Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation