Echtzeitgraphik Literature | TU Wien – Research Unit of Computer Graphics

Literature

Helpful links and materials:

Introduction	Intel page on Moore's law with a link to the original paper.
Perception	Various articles on Gamma by Charles Poynton
Pipeline	A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011, very detailed and technical description of the rendering pipeline. James F. Blinn "Clipping Using Homogeneous Coordinates"
OpenGL Programming	www.opengl.org, the main OpenGL gateway. www.opengl.org/wiki, central OpenGL Wiki The OpenGL Architecture Review Board, with links to their meeting notes. The OpenGL Extension Registry, with the extension header files and all extension specifications. NVIDIA OpenGL Extension Specifications, many of the most important extensions in nice PDF format. The latest OpenGL Specification (OpenGL 4.6 core profile), with info what's changed from previous versions. The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface (pdf), a good paper describing the design of OpenGL directly from its creators.
Texturing	Paul Heckbert's page, with interesting material about texture mapping, especially perspective correct texture mapping.
Shading and Lighting Effects	A simple tutorial on how to do simple diffuse bump mapping using only OpenGL extensions. SIGGRAPH 2013 Course Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice As always, NVidia's developer web page has lots of slides and papers on all the relevant techniques. A Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces by Morten Mikkelsen A Volumetric Ambient Occlusion by Szirmay-Kalos, Umenhoffer, Toth, Szecsi, and Sbert
Programmable Shading	A page on Stanford's shading language. Although current commercial shading languages (Cg, OpenGL 2.0) modified the concept a little bit, it is still the best exposition on the basic concepts involved.
Shadows	Mark Kilgard's (Nvidia) paper on Robust shadow volumes A newer shadow volume paper building on the previous one, with a good literature overview and some speed enhancements.
Levels of Detail (LoD)	Michael Garland's Homepage, where you can download the source code to his quadric error metrics simplification papers (qslim). A LOD demo, for the method in this paper.
Commonly Used 3D Models	The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository a collection of 3D range data/reconstructions of objects commonly used throughout many CG research papers Morgan McGuire's Computer Graphics Archive collection of widely used models. Gorgia Tech's Large Geometric Models Archive
Performance	FRAPS, a generic framerate display tool. Intel VTune, a powerful external profiler for Intel processors. A 30-day evaluation download is available. AMD Performance Tools, various tools for CPU and GPU instrumentation NVIDIA Developer Tools Data complexity for Virtual Reality - Where do all the triangles go? A paper, by Michael Deering analyzing the distribution of triangles in a number of CAD models. Dynamic 3D Graphics Workload Characterization and the Architectural Implications, a paper about performance characterization, also showing the balance point of the "average triangle". Using the RDTSC Instruction for Performance Monitoring, an Intel article about the topic.