Literature On-Line

The contents of the most recent issue of ACM TOG is available in our Titles in Current Issue area [the articles themselves are also available for download to TOG subscribers in PDF format]. See the TOG Tables of Contents by Volume for back issues of TOG.

Search Engines

• You can search the TOG site. If you are looking for non-TOG articles, try the searchers that follow.
• SIGGRAPH's Bibliography Database Search is focused on computer graphics references. Read the searcher instructions carefully; white space makes a difference. Near the middle of this page are links to information about articles in various computer graphics research publications.
• CiteSeer gives additional information about papers, such as the abstract, citations, related research, etc.
• A general computer science reference search engine includes most, if not all, of the references for ACM TOG articles in its databases, along with references to many other computer graphics and computer science related sources.
• Paul Nettle's GraphicsPapers.com uses SIGGRAPH's bibliography and goes a step further, attempting to give links which are relevant to the paper (and may contain the paper itself). Another method to find papers is to simply search Google.
• ACM provides an ACM article search engine.

Conference Related

• Tim Rowley tracks articles online from SIGGRAPH, the Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Graphics Hardware Workshop
• Ke-Sen Huang tracks a large number of other graphics conferences, including the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering and Eurographics itself.
• Slides for the SIGGRAPH 2002 Panels are available online.
• Papers in Graphics Interface are available on the web at this conference's site.
• Fredo Durand's pages include links to many other researchers, labs, conferences, image galleries, code, and more. He has also tracked SIGGRAPH 99 papers.
• n excellent set of links to older papers online and many other resources is maintained by Karim Ratib. Use the menu at the left to access his link pages (e.g. click on Applications/Computer Graphics/Publications for these links).

Paper Collections

• The ACM Digital Library is a paid service offering ACM proceedings and journals electronically. A yearly subscription is available (a particular bargain for students) or articles can be purchased individually.
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications has issues from 1995 to the present available online to members.
• The Eurographics Digital Library provides to members papers from the Eurographics conference and Computer Graphics Forum. Award winning Eurographics papers are available online to non-members.

Bibliographies

• Radiosity bibliography compiled by Ian Ashdown and Eric Haines (look under "Resources"). Also see the Radiosity Abstracts page for abstracts from earlier papers. Ashdown also maintains a page on radiosity resources.
• Ray tracing bibliography (fairly dated) compiled by Eric Haines and Paul Heckbert.
• Color quantization bibliography compiled by Ian Ashdown.
• Computational Geometry bibliography maintained by Bill Jones, with over 8000 references. There are other related bibliography links from this page.
• Paul Heckbert has made a few bibliography and links collections; topics include multiresolution modeling and surface simplification, texture mapping, mesh generation, and spatial data structures for ray tracing.
• The Implicit surfaces bibliography covers older papers.
• A number of different bibliographies (including ray tracing, visibility, rendering, computational geometry, and parallel rendering) have been created by Vlastimil Havran and Jiri Bittner.

Book Related

• The Graphics Gems Repository has source code and errata for the five books in the Graphics Gems series.
• The entire book Introduction to Computing with Geometry (direct PDF link), by Adrian Bowyer and John Woodwark, 1993, is available online, since it is no longer in print. It is written in an approachable and entertaining manner, with solid math and code bits.
• There is an errata sheet for Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes' Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C.
• There is also an errata sheet for Introduction to Computer Graphics by Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, and Phillips, (reprinted May 1997).
• The book Real-Time Rendering has a web site with many related resources and some sample sections.
• Woo maintains an errata page for the OpenGL Programming Guide (the Red Book).
• The latest errata for An Introduction to Ray Tracing is available at this site.
• Andrew Glassner maintains an errata listing for Principles of Digital Image Synthesis.
• The second edition of A Catalog of Radiation Heat Transfer Configuration Factors, by John Howell, is available online. This guide is useful for radiosity and global illumination work.
• The authors of the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats maintain a site for book updates. Other places for image and model file format information are The Graphics File Formats Page and Wotsit's Format. CAD-related file format information can be found at CADCAM Center.
• Unofficial errata for 3D Computer Graphics, 2nd edition, by Alan Watt, is available online.
• Errata is available for the CRC Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, edited by Jacob Goodman and Joseph O'Rourke (1997).
• The book Numerical Recipes is now online in Postscript and PDF forms. Some figures are missing from the PDF files, but you can't beat the price. The text is free for viewing but the electronic version of the source code must be purchased.
• The code from the book The Visualization Toolkit, An Object-Oriented Approach To 3D Graphics is available online.
• Brian Hook maintains a personal recommendation list of graphics and programming related books. The reviews are obviously a matter of opinion, but it is a good place to go to learn of titles you may not have known even existed.
• Errata for the book The Geometry Toolbox, by Gerald Farin and Dianne Hansford (A.K. Peters, Ltd.), is available online. Errata for other books by Farin can be found using the links at the bottom of this page.
• Errata and code for some older books is available on WUArchive.

Tutorials and References

• Philip Dutré's Global Illumination Compendium is an incredible collection of equations and methods related to global illumination, Monte Carlo sampling, radiosity, and related topics. Also see A Catalog of Radiation Heat Transfer Configuration Factors.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics is an incredible resource for mathematical definitions, hopefully back on the web for good.
• HyperGraph is a site which presents the basics about various areas of computer graphics. SIGGRAPH also has a Curriculum and Instructional Materials page with a variety of resources, including HyperVis (for teaching Visualization).
• The 3D Object Intersection page gives many references for various object intersection combinations.
• The entire book Introduction to Computing with Geometry, by Bowyer and Woodwark, is available for download. This book is out of print, so the authors (experts in the field) made it available on the web.
• Ken Joy's On-Line Computer Graphics Notes and Geometric Modeling Notes pages have some valuable tutorials on a wide range of subjects.
• The Ray Tracing News is an electronic publication with a mixture of technical articles, reviews, tutorials, and resource pointers.
• Craig Reynolds has made some excellent annotated links collections on a variety of topics:
  • Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR)
  • Behavioral Animation
  • Autonomous Characters
  He also has link pages on artificial life, evolutionary computation, and boids
• Various works are available online from Ken Shoemake. These include a quaternion tutorial and a paper on decomposing matrices co-authored with Tom Duff, from Graphics Interface '92.
• There are many great documents and code bits at David Eberly's site, including a quaternion tutorial, animation information, image analysis, etc.
• Long-time contributor to the field of computer graphics Wm. Randolph Franklin has a few worthwhile notes on computational geometry.
• Tutorials on bump mapping, NURBS, particle systems, and many other topics are on-line under the "Presentations" section. These pages are presentations given by students taking an advanced computer graphics course (so don't expect expert information, but the tutorials seemed sound enough).
• All sorts of tutorials, algorithms, and other material is available at Paul Bourke's site. I particularly liked his online explanations of analytical geometry operations.
• Chris Hecker's site has worthwhile articles and tutorials. There is quite a lot on physical simulation of rigid body dynamics, and a good series of articles on practical perspective texture mapping on the PC, and benchmarking of various compilers.
• An interactive (Java-based) tutorial from Brown University on color perception is available.
• Links to tutorials on gamma correction have been collected. Particularly goods FAQ on gamma and color is available from Charles Poynton.
• James Palmer maintains a FAQ on radiometry and photometry. Stephen Westland's Colour Physics FAQ is a useful page about color physics and perception.
• A wavelets tutorial, based for the most part on the wavelets course given at SIGGRAPH 96, is available on the web.
• A nicely illustrated pair of tutorials on compositing for video and other applications are available as part 1 and part 2.
• A large number of tutorials for beginning users of 3D computer graphics software (especially for web designers) are online.
• A tutorial on constraint based modeling is available from Purdue.

Electronic Magazines

• The WAVE Report on Digital Media is a computer graphics oriented online news magazine, with a particular focus on PC graphics acceleration and development.
• Spectrum is an online news 'zine with a focus on multimedia applications and the web, hosted by 3d Links.
• The Ray Tracing News is an electronic publication with a mixture of technical articles, reviews, and resource pointers.
• Wavelet Digest is a monthly digest focussing on wavelet research.
• The Rendering Times is an ezine for users of POV-Ray and Topas.

Corrections

• The SIGGRAPH Corrigenda site gives author approved corrections to SIGGRAPH papers and other related materials.
• A site listing unapproved SIGGRAPH article corrigenda is temporarily available; corrections here should move to the SIGGRAPH site (or disappear) as the authors respond to the information here.

FAQs

Here are Frequently Asked Questions collections for various areas of computer graphics:

• The Ohio State Graphics FAQ collection maintains FAQs made for the Usenet comp.graphics.* hierarchy. Topics include algorithms, ray tracing, RenderMan, and the AVI format.
• Steve Hollasch's Computer Graphics Index has all sorts of tidbits culled from newsgroups and elsewhere over the decades, along with many links to other useful resources.
• Bretton Wade's BSP FAQ is somewhat dated, but still a good place to start for binary space partitioning algorithm information.
• Brian Corrie and Craig Wittenbrink's Massively Parallel Rendering FAQ is ancient, but still useful.

Link Pages

• The Real-Time Rendering Resources page contains many useful links for this subject, as does the Technomagi page.
• Geometric Tool's link set has many useful listings.
• SIGGRAPH has information related to the ACM Special Interest Group on computer graphics. It includes conferences and workshop schedules, a directory of professional chapters, publication listings, and other resources.
• The Ray Tracing News is an electronic publication with a mixture of technical articles, reviews, and resource pointers.
• Parallel Volume Rendering Clearing House, by Craig Wittenbrink, covers just that.
• Jeff Erickson maintains a comprehensive set of links to computational geometry resources.
• The University of California, Santa Cruz, has a links page for facial animation.
• NIST maintains a good set of links to information about bidirectional reflection distribution functions (BRDFs).
• 3DSite has a variety of resources available, such as free models, archives of chat panels on computer animation, etc.
• Ultimate 3D Links is another site with pointers to resources such as shareware and commercial modelers, 3D objects, and textures.
• 3Dup is a 3D-only search engine, with various language options. Frankly, this site is unaware of many resources out there (e.g. searching on "ray tracing" turns up 5 links), but it may be worth a try.

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