History of Graphics

Some ideas for a “History of Graphics” series of posts:

Topic	Author, Year	Paper
Ray tracing on computers	Grosch, 1945	Ray Tracing With Punched-Card Equipment,
Ray casting	Appel, 1968	Some Techniques for Shading Machine Renderings of Solids
Gouraud shading	Gouraud, 1971	Computer Display of Curved Surfaces (pdf)
Texture mapping	Catmull, 1974	A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces
Antialiasing	Crow, 1977	The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images
Bump mapping	Blinn, 1978	Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces
Recursive ray tracing	Whitted, 1979	An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display
Distribution ray tracing	Cook et al., 1984	Distributed Ray Tracing
Perlin noise	Perlin, 1985	An Image Synthesizer
Rendering equation	Immel et al., 1986	A Radiosity Method for Non-Diffuse Environments
Path tracing	Kajiya, 1986	The Rendering Equation
Jello	Heckbert, 1987	Ray Tracing JELL-O Brand Gelatin
RenderMan Shading Language	Hanrahan and Lawson, 1990	A Language for Shading and Lighting Calculations
Bidirectional path tracing	Lafortune and Willems, 1993	Bi-directional Path Tracing
Multiple importance sampling	Veach and Guibas, 1995	Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering

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