Readings for CS448: Real-Time Shading

Papers and articles available on the web will not be handed out in class. Pointers to the online versions of papers are included by the reference. You are expected to download and print these papers yourselves. One reason for doing this is that many graphics papers contain pictures that do not reproduce well when copied. The ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries are now available online for Stanford students.

Readings not available online will be handed out in class. They will also be available in the CS448 course handout cabinet in Gates Rm 377 (the copy room in the graphics wing 3B).

Readings

Mar 29 Introduction

Chapter 14 from Watt and Watt, Advanced Rendering and Animation Techniques (handout).

Apr 3 RenderMan Shading Language

• A language for Shading and Lighting Calculations, Pat Hanrahan and Jim Lawson, SIGGRAPH 1990, pp.289-298. (Handout)
• Excerpts from Advanced RenderMan, by Apodaca and Gritz
  • pp. 159-182 -- Intro to Shading Language
  • pp. 281-284, 291-302, 272-274 -- Shader Strategy & Examples
  • pp. 45, 247-255 -- Noise

Apr 15 -- Current real-time shading systems

• A Shading Language on Graphics Hardware: The PixelFlow Shading System, Marc Olano and Anselmo Lastra, SIGGRAPH 1998, pp. 159-168.
• Quake 3: Arena Shader Manual, Revision 12, Paul Jaquays and Brian Hook, December 1999. (Handout was version 10)
• Interactive Multi-Pass Programmable Shading, Mark Peercy and Marc Olano and John Airey and Jeff Ungar, SIGGRAPH 2000 (to appear).
• A Framework for Real-Time Programmable Shading with Flexible Vertex and Fragment Processing, Kekoa Proudfoot, William R. Mark and Pat Hanrahan, January, 2000, unpublished paper. (Handout)
• Shading language and immediate-mode API documentation for Stanford real-time shading system. (Handouts)

May 3 -- Hardware for real-time programmable shading

• InfiniteReality: a real-time graphics system, John S. Montrym, Daniel R. Baum, David L. Dignam and Christopher J. Migdal; SIGGRAPH 97, pp. 293 - 302
• PixelFlow: high-speed rendering using image composition, Steven Molnar, John Eyles, and John Poulton. SIGGRAPH 92, pp. 231-240.
• The Reyes image rendering architecture. Robert Cook, Loren Carpenter, and Edwin Catmull, SIGGRAPH 87, pp. 95-102. (Handout).
• Texture Shaders. Michael McCool and Wolfgang Heidrich, Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware 1999, pp. 117-126.
• Polygon Rendering on a Stream Architecture. John Owens, William Dally, Ujval Kapasi, Peter Mattson and Ben Mowery. Paper submission. (Handout, if I get a clean copy in time for class).
• The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering, William Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot. Paper submission (Handout).