Readings & Resources

Main text for this class:

• Pharr, Matt; Humphreys, Greg: Physically based rendering : from theory to implementation, Morgan Kaufmann, 2016 Website Library

Possible Introduction Textbooks:

• John F. Hughes, et.al.: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley Professional , 3rd ed. 2014 Website Book
• Donald Hearn, Pauline Baker: Computer Graphics with Open GL, Prentice-Hall, 4th ed. 2011 Book
• David F. Rogers, Procedural Elements of Computer Graphics, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition. 1997; Library
• Edward Angel, Interactive computer graphics : a top-down approach with shader-based OpenGL, Pearson, 7. edition, 2015. Book Website
• Peter Shirley, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters, 2015. Website Library

Possible Advanced Textbooks:

• Andrew S. Glassner, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, Volume 1+2, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995. Website Pdf Errata
• Alan Watt, Mark Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Addison-Wesley Pub., 1999. Book
• Alan Watt, Fabio Policarpo, The Computer Image, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Alan Watt, 3D Computer Graphics, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley Pub., 2000. Book

Global Illumination Textbooks:

• Andrew S. Glassner, An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1989. Website Library
• Michael Cohen and John Wallace, Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis, Academic Press, 1993 Book
• Peter Shirley, Realistic Ray Tracing, 2nd edition, AK Peters, 2000. Website
• Henrik Wann Jensen, Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping, AK Peters, 2001. Website
• State of the Art in Monte Carlo Ray Tracing for Realistic Synthesis, SIGGRAPH Course 29, 2001.
• Advanced Global Illumination, SIGGRAPH 2001, Course 20, 2001.
• Philip Dutre, Philippe Bekaert, Kavita Bala, Advanced Global Illumination, AK Peters, 2003. Website

Great Reference Books:

• Graphics Gems I, II, III, IV, V, Academic Press, 1990-1995 Website

Recreational Graphics:

• Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner : A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996. Website
• Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner : Dirty Pixels, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998. Website
• Andrew S. Glassner, Andrew Glassner's Notebook: Recreational Computer Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999. Website
• David S. Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, Steve Worley, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach,Academic Press, 1998. Library Book

Books on Animation:

• Rick Parent, Computer Animation - Algorithms and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002. Library Website + Errata
• Jeremy Birn, Digital Lighting and Rendering, New Riders, 2000. Library Website
• Steven Katz, Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen, Focal Press, 1991. Library
• Kit Laybourne, The Animation Book, Three Rivers Press, 1998. Book
• Tony White, The animator's workbook, Watson-Guptill Publ., 1988. Book

Visualization Literature

See Literature from the Visualization Course (052215 VU Visualisation and Visual Data Analysis) Website

Volume Graphics:

• Barthold Lichtenbelt, Randy Crane, Shaz Naqvi, Introduction To Volume Rendering, Prentice Hall, 1998. Library
• Bajaj, Data Visualization Techniques, Prentice Hall, 1998. Book
• Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorenson, The Visualization Toolkit, Prentice Hall, 2006. Library
• Gregory M. Nielson, Hans Hagen, Heinrich Mueller, Scientific Visualization: Overviews, Methodologies, and Techniques, IEEE Computer Society, 1997. Library
• M. Chen, Arie E. Kaufman, Roni Yagel, Volume Graphics, Springer Verlag, 2000. Book
• Christof Rezk-Salama, Klaus Engel, Markus Hadwiger, Joe M. Kniss, Daniel Weiskopf, Real-time volume graphics, Peters, 2006. Library Website

Signal Processing:

• Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Pearson, 2010. Library
• George Wolberg, Digital Image Warping, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990. Library
• Ronald N. Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and Its Applications, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, 2000. Library

Image Processing:

• Dan E. Dudgeon, Russell M. Mersereau, Multidimensional digital signal processsing, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1984.
• Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Digital image processing, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Library
• Kenneth R. Castleman, Digital image processing, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1996. Library
• Anil K. Jain, Fundamentals of digital image processing, Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1989. Library

Tools

C++

• Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2013. Library Website
• Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, C++ Primer, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Library

OpenGL

• (The Red Book) John Kessenich, Graham Sellers, and Dave Shreiner, The OpenGL® Programming Guide 9th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2013. Website
• (The Blue Book) OpenGL Reference Guide. Documentary
• SGI's page
• SGI documentation
• OpenGl.org
  • Code and Tutorial pages
  • GLUT - GL Ultility Toolkit
• freeGLUT - "a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library"
• GLui - GL based user interface utilities
• Mesa - free OpenGL alternative

Graphics on GPU's

• GPGPU is a great resource for tips on tricks on what is possible with your programmable GPU
• GLew - the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

VTK stuff

• Kitware (the source of VTK)
• Applications that use vtk (old)
• Benchmarks using vtk

Tcl/Tk

• Scriptics (the source of Tcl/Tk)
• online resources of Tcl/Tk, provides links to online tutorials
• John Ousterhout, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Addison-Wesley, 1996. Library

Good math references

• Mathworld is a must, of course!
• Numerical Recipes is great to catch up with the numerical algorithm you forgot about.

Fourier Transforms and FFT software

• FFTW - The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West - is really a one-stop shopping. Check out their links page for lots of resources on FFT's.
• Netlib is a famous repository for lots of numerical software.