| Directory > Computers > Software > Graphics > 3D > Ray Tracing > Research and Papers Philip Dutré's Publications
Mostly relating to global illumination algorithms and monte carlo light tracing.
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~phil/PUBLICATIONS/publications.html
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Heuristic Ray Shooting Algorithms
Ph.D. Thesis by Vlastimil Havran. Describe a method to reduce a ray shooting algorithm's
average-case complexity from O(n) to about O(log n) using kd-trees. Available in Postscript and
PDF.
http://www.cgg.cvut.cz/~havran/phdthesis.html
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The OpenRT Interactive RayTracing Project
A new interface that is supposed to become the OpenGL of interactive ray tracing. Contains
publications, gallery and some links.
http://www.openrt.de/
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Computer Graphics Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Research mostly center around global illumination and monte carlo ray tracing. Contains some
environment maps, a description of a Cornell box experiment, Publications and the RenderPark ray
tracer.
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cwis/research/graphics/
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Eric Haines' homepage
Links, PowerPoint slides from talks, publications and imagery mostly relating to ray tracing and
nearby subjects.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/tog/editors/erich/
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Visual Simulation Group, University of Utah
Projects cover terrain modeling, interactive ray tracing and perception of images. Member list,
publications, link collection and various resources such as spectral data for natural materials.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/
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Carlos Ureña Almagro's papers
A collection of papers regarding Monte-Carlo Density Estimation, Radiosity. etc.
http://giig.ugr.es/~curena/papers/
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Henrik Wann Jensen's Publications
A list of publications mainly about Photon Mapping, Global Illumination and rendering natural
phenomenon such as fire, skin and smoke.
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/papers/
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Image-based Rendering and Reconstruction of Surfaces with Arbitrary BRDFs
A project trying to capture the surface properties of real-life objects that cannot be effectively
captured by any existing lighting models (such as Phong).
http://vision.ucsd.edu/kriegman-grp/research/ibr/image-based-rendering.html
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Efficient and Realistic Hair Modeling and Animation Using Sparse Guide Hairs
Yizhou Yu, Johnny T. Chang and Jingyi Jin presents a unified framework for modeling and animating
curly hairs.
http://ncstrl.cs.uiuc.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.uiuc_cs/UIUCDCS-R-2002-2312
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Bidirectional Estimators for Light Transport
Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas study techniques for reducing the sampling noise inherent in pure
Monte Carlo approaches to global illumination.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/bidir/
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Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces
Douglas Enright, Steve Marschner and Ronald Fedkiw describes a method designed to produce visually
plausible water effects, for example the pouring of water into a glass and the breaking of an ocean
wave.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/water-sg02/
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All-Frequency Shadows
Ren Ng, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Pat Hanrahan presents a method, based on pre-computed light transport,
for real-time rendering of objects under all-frequency, time-varying illumination represented as a
high-resolution environment map. This gives good shadows.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/allfreq/
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The Ray Engine
A paper by Nathan A. Carr, Jesse D. Hall and John C. Hart describing an implementation of
ray-triangle intersection as a pixel shader on existing hardware (Radeon 8500 card)
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.uiuc_cs/UIUCDCS-R-2002-2269
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Amorphous Phenomena Simulation
Papers describing various physically accurate simulations of complex amorphous phenomena such as
smoke, fire, wind and melting at real time frame rates using standard PCs and graphics hardware.
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vislab/projects/amorphous/AmorphousGroup.htm
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Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware
Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan evaluate trends in programmability
of the graphics pipeline and explain how ray tracing can be mapped to graphics hardware.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/rtongfx/
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Smoke Simulation for Large Scale Phenomenas
Nick Rasmussen, Duc Quang Nguyen, Willi Geiger and Ronald Fedkiw presents an efficient method for
simulating highly detailed large scale participating media such as nuclear explosions.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/smoke-sig03/
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Keller
Papers about Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods, highly uniform point sets, particle methods
for transport equations and wavelets and the lifting scheme.
http://graphics.uni-ulm.de/
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Jules Bloomenthal Published Papers
Papers relating to Character Animation, Implicit and Skeletal Modeling, Implicit Surface
Polygonization, Convolution Surfaces and Transformations and Geometry.
http://www.unchainedgeometry.com/jbloom/papers.html
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Graphics paper indexes
Indexes for online version of papers from SIGGRAPH and various other conferences.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/
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Radiance Technical Papers
Various papers describing the free radiance highly accurate ray-tracing software system for UNIX
computers.
http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/papers/
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Metropolis Light Transport
Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas describes a method for solving the light transport problem that
performs especially well on problems that are usually considered difficult, e.g. those involving
bright indirect light, small geometric holes, or glossy surfaces.
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/papers/metro/
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Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation
Eric Veach Ph.D. dissertation describes light transport problems in computer graphics and develops
new Monte Carlo techniques that greatly extend the range of input models for which light transport
simulations are practical.
http://graphics.stanford.EDU/papers/veach_thesis/
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Ray Tracing Bibliography
Over 700 bibliographic references and some 300 abstracts from ray tracing related papers and books.
Not updated since 1999 but much of the information is still useful.
http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/bib/
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Eliminating Popping Artifacts in Sheet Buffer-Based Splatting
Splatting is a fast volume rendering algorithm which achieves its speed by projecting voxels in the
form of pre-integrated interpolation kernels, or splats. By Klaus Mueller and Roger Crawfis.
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mueller/research/pop/
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Improved Noise by Ken Perlin, Reference Implementation
An implementation in java of Perlin's 2002 SIGGRAPH paper (available in PDF format) describing a
improved noise generating function.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/noise/
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Global Illumination Compendium by Philip Dutré
A compendium containing most of the useful formulas and equations for global illumination
algorithms.
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~phil/GI/
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Volume Graphics: Field-based Modelling and Rendering
A PhD thesis in PDF format, introducing new volume graphics concepts. Includes background reviews
of volume visualization and graphics. Also includes a specification of the vlib volume graphics API
and describes volumetric ray-tracing.
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandrew/papers/winter_phd.pdf
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Radiosity: An Illuminating Perspective
Presents a summary of the state of radiosity research 1992 by S.M Drucker. In PDF format.
http://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker/papers/radiosity_genexam.pdf
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Symplectic Raytracing: Raytracing with Hamiltonian Dynamics in Blackhole Spacetime
PDF file describing a method to visualize the curved spacetime around blackholes. By Tetsu Satoh,
Haruo Takemura and Naokazu Yokoya.
http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/~tetu-s/papers/SIG/skapps_0132.pdf
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Efficient Image-Based Methods for Rendering Soft Shadows
Presents two efficient image-based approaches for computation and display of high-quality soft
shadows from area light sources: Layered attenuation maps and coherence-based raytracing. Authors:
Maneesh Agrawala, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alan Heirich and Laurent Moll.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/shadows/
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