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Readings in Physically Based Rendering

Overview

• Turner Whitted, An Improved Illumintion Model for Shaded Display, Communications of the ACM, 1980.
• Donald Greenberg et. al. A Framework for Realistic Image Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• David Kirk and James Arvo, The Ray Tracing Kernel, Ausgraph 1988.
• Robert Cook, Loren Carpenter and Edwin Catmull, The REYES Image Rendering Architecture, SIGGRAPH 1987.
• Larry Gritz and James Hahn, BMRT: A Global Illumination Implementation of the RenderMan Standard, Journal of Graphuics Tools, 1998.
• Gregory Ward, The RADIANCE Lighting Simulation and Rendering System, SIGGRAPH 1994.
• Kelvin Sung et. al., Design and Implementation of the Maya Renderer, Pacific Graphics 1998.
• Andrew Woo, Andrew Pearce and Marc Ouellette, It’s Really Not a Rendering Bug, You See…, IEEE CG&A 1996.
• Paul Heckbert, A Minimal Ray Tracer, Graphics Gems IV, 1994.
• Per H. Christensen, Julian Fong, David Laur and Dana Batali Ray Tracing for the Movie Cars, Pixar TR, 2006.

Geometry

• Bob Wallis, Forms, Vectors, and Transforms, Graphics Gems I, 1990.
• Ken Turkowski, Properties of Surface-Normal Transformations, Graphics Gems I, 1990.
• James Arvo, Classifting Small Sparse Matrices, Graphics Gems II, 1991.

Shapes

• Ken Turkowski, The Differential Geometry of Parametric Primitives, Technical Note, Apple Computer, 1990.
• Tomas Moller and Ben Trumbore, Fast, Minimum Storage Ray/Triangle Intersection, Journal of Graphics Tools 1997.
• William Mrtin, Elaine Cohen, Russel Fish and Peter Shirley, Practical Ray Tracing of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces, Journal of Graphics Tools 2000.
• Jos Stam, Exact Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces At Aritrary Parameter Values, SIGGRAPH 1998.
• Jeffrey Bolz and Peter Schroder, Rapid Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces, Web3D 2002.
• Jos Stam and Charles Loop, Quad/Triangle Subdivision, Eurographics 2003.

Acceleration

• J. Arvo and D. Kirk, A Survey of Ray Tracing Acceleration Techniques, An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Edited by A. Glassner, 1989.
• V. Havran, J. Prikryl and W. Purgathofer, Statistical Comparison of Ray-Shooting Efficiency Schemes, TR-186-2-00-14, 2000. Also available at Best Efficiency Scheme Homepage.
• J. Snyder and A. Barr, Ray Tracing Complex Models Containing Surface Tessellations, SIGGRAPH 1987.
• F. Cazzla, G. Drettakis and C. Puech, Filtering, Clustering and Hierachy Construction: a New Solution for Ry-Tracing Complex Scenes, Computer Graphics Forum 14(3) 1995.
• K. Klimaszewski and T. Sederberg, Faster Ray Tracing Using Adaptive Grids, IEEE CG&A Jan/Feb 1997.
• J. Goldsmith and J. Salmon, Automatic Creation of Object Hierarchies for Ray Tracing, IEEE CG&A, 1987.
• Brian Smits, Efficiency Issues for Ray Tracing, Journal of Graphics Tools, 1998.
• V. Havran and J. Bittner, On Improving KD-Trees for Ray Shooting, Proceedings of WSCG, 2002.
• J. Hurley et. al., Fast Ray Tracing for Modern General Purpose CPU, Proceedings of GraphiCon, 2002.
• T. Kay and J. Kajiya, Ray Tracing Complex Scenes, SIGGRAPH 1986.
• J. Arvo and D. Kirk, Fast Ray Tracing by Ray Classification, SIGGRAPH 1987.
• A. Glassner, Space Subdivision for Fast Ray Tracing, IEEE CG&A 1984.
• I. Gargantini and H. Atkinson, Ray Tracing an Octree: Numerical Evaluation of the First Intersection, Computer Graphics Forum 1993.
• K.-Y. Whang et. al., Octree-R: An Adaptive Octree for Efficient Ray Tracing, IEEE TVCG 1995.
• F. Cazals and C. Puech, Bucket-like Space Partitioning Data-structures with Applications to ray-tracing, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 1997.
• D. Jevans and B. Wyvill, Adaptive Voxel Subdivision for Ray Tracing, Proceedings of Graphics Interface 1997.
• N. Carr, J. Hall and J. Hart, The Ray Engine, Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2002.
• T. Purcell, I. Buck, W. Mark and P. Hanrahan, Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware, SIGGRAPH 2002.

Color

• Roy Hall, Comparing Spectral Color Computation Methods, IEEE CG&A July/August 1999.
• Ming-Yang Lee, Colors, Scientific American June 2008 (Chinese).

Cameras

• Robert Cook, Thomas Porter and Loren Carpenter, Distributed Ray Tracing, SIGGRAPH 1984.
• Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell and Pat Hanrahan, A Realistic Camera Model for Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 1995.

Sampling

• J. Yellott, Spectral Consequences of Photoreceptor Sampling in the Rhesus Retina, Science 1983.
• Robert cook, Stochastic Sampling in computer Graphics, ACM TOG 1986.
• Don Mitchell, Generating Antialiased Images at Low ampling Densities, SIGGRAPH 1987.
• Don Mitchell, Arun Netravali, Reconstruction Filters in Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 1988.
• Dan Mitchell, Spectrally Optimal Sampling for Distribution Ray Tracing, SIGGRAPH 1991.
• Pat Hanrahan, Basic Signal Processing, Technical Note.
• V. Ostromoukhov, C. Donohue, P.-M. Jodoin, Fast Hierarchical Importance Sampling with Blue Noise Properties, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• Thouis Jones, Efficient Generation of Poisson-Disk Sampling, JGT 2006.
• D. Dunbar, G. Humphreys, A Spatial Data Structure for Fast Poisson-Disk Sample Generation, SIGGRAPH 2006.
• J. Kopf, D. Cohen-Or, O. Deussen, D. Lischinski, Recursive Wang Tiles for Real-Time Blue Noise, SIGGRAPH 2006.
• V. Ostromoukhov, Sampling with Polyominoes, SIGGRAPH 2007.
• L-Yi Wei, Parallel Poisson Disk Sampling, SIGGRAPH 2008.
• Ares Lagae and Philip Dutre, A Comparison of Methods for Generating Poisson Disk Distributions, Computer Graphics Forum 2008.

Films

• Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, Michael Werman, Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• Fredo Durand, Julie Dorsey, Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High Dynamic Range Images, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• Erik Reinhard, Michael Stark, Peter Shirley, Jim Ferwerda, Photographics Tone Reproduction for Digital Images, SIGGRAPH 2002.

Reflection models

• K. Torrance and E. Sparrow, Theory for Off-Specular Reflection From Roughened Surfaces, JOSA 57(9), 1967.
• James Blinn, Models of Light Reflection for Computer Synthesized Pictures, SIGGRAPH 1977.
• P. Poulin and A. Fournier, A Model for Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH 1990.
• G. Ward, Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH 1992.
• B. Walter, Notes on the Ward BRDF, Technical Report PCG-05-06, Cornell, 2005.
• C. Schlick, A Customizable Reflection Model for Everyday Rendering, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1993.
• M. Ashikhmin, S. Premoze and P. Shirley, A Microfacet-based BRDF Generator, SIGGRAPH 2000.
• M. Oren and S. Nayar, Generalization of the Lambertian Model and Implications for Machine Vision, SIGGRAPH 1994.
• M. Oren and S. Nayar, Generalization of Lambert’s Reflectance Model, SIGGRAPH 1994.
• E. Lafortune, S.-C. Foo, K. Torrance and D. Greenberg, Non-Linear Approximation of Reflection Functions, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• J. Stam, Diffraction Shaders, SIGGRAPH 1999.
• S. Westin, J. Arvo and K. Torrance, Predicting Reflectance Functions from Complex Surfaces, SIGGRAPH 1992.
• P. Hanrahan and W. Krueger, Reflection from Layered Surfaces due to Subsurface Scattering, SIGGRAPH 1993.
• M. Ashikmin and P. Shirley, An Anisotropic Phong Light Reflection Model, jgt 2000.
• J. Stam, An Illumination Model for a Skin Layer Bounded by Rough Surfaces, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2001.
• H. Jensen, S. Marschner, M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan, A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 2001.
• H. Jensen and J. Buhler A Rapid Hierarchical Rendering Technique for Translucent Materials, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• C. Donner and H. Jensen, Light Diffusion in Multi-Layered Translucent Materials, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• J. Kajiya and T. Kay, Rendering Fur with Three Dimensional Textures, SIGGRAPH 1989.
• D. Goldman, Fake Fur Rendering, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• S. Marschner, H. W. Jensen, M. Cammarano, M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan, Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• S. Marschner, S. Westin, A. Arbree and J. Moon, Measuring and Modeling the Appearance of Finished Wood, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Brand and L. McMillian, A Data-Driven Reflectance Model, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Materials

• P.-P. Sloan and M. Cohen, Interactive Horizon Mapping, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000.
• B. Becker and N. Max, Smooth Transitions between Bump Rendering Algorithms, SIGGRAPH 1993.
• M. Pharr and P. Hanrahan, Geometry Caching for Ray-Tracing Displacement Maps, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 1996.
• B. Smits, P. Shirley and M. Stark, Direct Ray Tracing of Displacement Mapped Triangles, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000.

Texture

• Homan Igehy, Tracing Ray Differentials, SIGGRAPH 1999.
• Robert Cook, Shade Trees, SIGGRAPH 1984.
• Ken Perlin, An Image Synthesizer, SIGGRAPH 1985.
• Ken Perlin, Improving Noise, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• Rober Cook and Tony DeRose, Wavelet Noise, SIGGRAPH 2005.

Lights

• Paul Debevec, Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes: Bridging Traditional and Image-Based Graphics with Global Illumination and High Dynamic Range Photography, SIGGRAPH 1998.
• Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Maneesh Agrawala, Efficient Shadows for Samples Environment Maps, Journal of Graphics Tools, 2005.
• E. Haines and D. Greenberg, The Light Buffer: a Shadow Testing Accelerator, IEEE CG&A 1986.
• D. Hart, P. Dutre and D. Greenberg, Direct Illumination with Lazy Visibility Evaluation, SIGGRAPH 1999.
• A. Pearce, A Recursive Shadow Voxel Cache for Ray Tracing, Graphics Gems II, 1991.
• E. Haines and J. Wallace, Shaft Culling for Efficient Ray-Cast Radiosity, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1994.
• S. Fernandez, K. Bala, and D. Greenberg, Local Illumination Environment for Direct Lighting Acceleration, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2002.
• A. Lukaszewski, Exploiting Coherence of Shadow Rays, SIGGRAPH 2001.
• T. Lokovic and E. Veach, Deep Shadow Maps, SIGGRAPH 2000.
• P. Debevec, A Median Cut Algorithm for Light Probe Sampling, SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketch and Applications.

Monte Carlo

• E. Veach, Introduction to Monte Carlo Method, Stanford course note 1997.
• James Kajiya, The Rendering Equation, SIGGRAPH 1986.
• D. Kirk and J. Arvo, Unbiased Sampling Techniques for Image Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 1991.
• E. Veach and L. Guibas, Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering, SIGGRAPH 1995.
• D. Mitchell, Consequences of Stratified Sampling in Graphics, SIGGRAPH 1996.
• T. Kollig and A. Keller, Efficient Illumination by High Dynamic Range Images, EGSR 2003.
• S. Agarwal, R. Ramamoorthi, S. Belongie and H. W. Jensen, Structured Importance Sampling of Environment Maps, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• J. Lawrence, S. Rusinkiewicz and R. Ramamoorthi, Efficient BRDF Importance Sampling Using A Factored Representation, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• P. Clarberg, W. Jarosz, T. Akenine-Moller and H. W. Jensen, Wavelet Importance Sampling: Efficiently Evaluating Products of Complex Functions, SIGGRAPH 2005.

Surface Integrators

• G. Ward, F. Rubinstein and R. Clear, A Ray Tracing Solution for Diffuse Interreflection, SIGGRAPH 1988.
• G. Ward and P. Heckbert, Irradiance Gradients, EGWR 1992.
• H. Jensen, Global Illumintion using Photon Maps, EGWR 1996.
• M. Pharr, Metropolis Sampling, SIGGRAPH 2003 Course Note #44, Chap. 9.
• E. Veach and L. Guibas, Metropolis Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• D. Cline and P. Egbert, A Practical Introduction to Metropolis Light Transport,
• C. Kelemen et. al., A Simple and Robust Mutation Strategy for the Metropolis Light Transport Algorithm, Eurographics 2002.
• H. Rushmeier and G. Ward, Energy Preserving Non-Linear Filters, SIGGRAPH 1994.
• M. McCool, Anisotropic Diffusion for Monte Carlo Noise Reduction, ACM TOG 1999.
• D. Cline, J. Talbot and P. Egbert, Energy Redistribution Path Tracing, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• A. Keller, Instant Radiosity, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• I. Wald, T. Kollig, A. Keller and P. Slusallek, Interactive Global Illumination using Fast Ray Tracing, EGWR 2002.
• O. Arikan, D. Forsyth and J. O’Brien, Fast and Detailed Approximate Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• E. Tabellion, and A. Lamorlette, An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films, SIGGRAPH 2004.

Volume

• H. W. Jensen and P. H. Christensen, Efficient Simulation of Light Trasnport in Scenes with Participating Media using Photon Maps, SIGGRAPH 1998.
• B. Sun, R. Ramamoorthi, S. G. Narasimhan and S. K. Nayar, A Practical Analytic Single Scattering Model for Real Time Rendering, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• S. Narasimhan, M. Gupta, C. Donner, R. Rammamoorthi, S. Nayar and H. W. Jensen, Acquiring Scattering Properties of Participating Media by Dilution, SIGGRAPH 2006.
• Fong Chao, What makes the colors for days and nights, Scientific American 2010. (Chinese)

Real-time lighting

• R. Green, Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details, GDC 2003.
• R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, An Efficient Representation for Irradiance Environment Maps, SIGGRAPH 2001.
• P.-P. Sloan, J. Kautz and J. Snyder, Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic, Low-Frequency Lighting Environment, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• P.-P. Sloan, J. Hall, J. Hart and J. Snyder, Clustered Principal Components for Precomputed Radiance Transfer, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• R. Ng, R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, All-Frequency Shadows Using Non-linear Wavelet Lighting Approximation, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• R. Ng, R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan, Triple Product Wavelet Integrals for All-Frequency Relighting, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• R. Wang, R. Ng, D. Luebke and G. Humphreys, Efficient Wavelet Rotation for Environment Map Rendering, EGSR 2006.
• R. Gershbein and P. Hanrahan, A Fast Relighting Engine for Interactive Cinematic Lighting Design, SIGGRAPH 2000.
• F. Pellacini et. al., Lpics: a Hybrid Hardware-Accelerated Relighting Engine for Computer Cinematography, SIGGRAPH 2004.
• M. Hasan, F. Pellacini and K. Bala, Direct-to-Indirect Transfer for Cinematic Relighting, SIGGRAPH 2006.

Shadows

• R. Fernando, S. Fernandez, K. Bala and D. Greenberg, Adaptive Shadow Maps, SIGGRAPH 2001.
• M. Stamminger and G. Drettakis, Perspective Shadow Maps, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• P. Sen, M. Cammarano and P. Hanrahan, Shadow Silhouette Maps, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• M. Agrawala, R. Ramamoorthi, A. Heirich and L. Moll, Efficient Image-Based Methods for Rendering Soft Shadows, SIGGRAPH 2000.
• U. Assarsson and T. Akenine-Moller, A Geometry-based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm using Graphics Hardware, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Other topics

• Y. Chen, L. Xia, T.-T. Wong, X. Tong, H. Bao, G. Guo and H.-Y. Shum, Visual Simulation of Weathering By r-ton Tracing, SIGGRAPH 2005.
• M. Pharr, C. Kolb, R. Gershbein and P. Hanrahan, Rendering Complex Scenes with Memory-Coherent Ray Tracing, SIGGRAPH 1997.
• T. Chilimbi, B. Davidson and J. Larus, Cache-conscious structure layout, SIGPLAN PLDI 1999.
• T. Chilimbi, B. Davidson and J. Larus, Cache-conscious structure definition, SIGPLAN PLDI 1999.