Reference Material

Compositing

• Thomas Porter, Tom Duff, Compositing digital images, Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 84). 18(3), pp. 253-259, 1984.
• Tom Duff, Compositing 3-D Rendered Images, Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 85). 19(3), pp. 41-44, 1985.
• Alvy Ray Smith, Image Compositing Fundamentals, Microsoft Technical Memo 4, Aug 15, 1995.
• Alvy Ray Smith, Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing, Microsoft Technical Memo 7, Aug 15, 1995.
• James F. Blinn, Compositing, Part 1: Theory, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, September 1994, pp. 83-87.
  • Part II is not worth reading.
• Jurriaan D. Mulder, Frans C.A. Groen, Jarke J. van Wijk, Pixel Masks for Screen-Door Transparency, IEEE Visualization '98. pp. 351-358, 1998.
• Craig M. Wittenbrink, Thomas Malzbender, and Michael E. Goss, Opacity-Weighted Color Interpolation For Volume Sampling, 1998 Symposium on Volume Visualization (ACM Press),. pp. 135-142.
  • Marc Levoy, Error in volume rendering paper was in exposition only, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 20, No. 4, July/August, 2000, p. 6
• James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner and John F. Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, pp. 835-843.
• Dave Shreiner, et al., OpenGL Programming Guide, Fourth Edition, pp. 223-240, 253-254
• James F. Blinn, A Ghost in a Snowstorm, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, January/February 1998, pp. 79-84. (compositing errors associated with acquired video or photos and CG elements).

Texture Synthesis (selected)

• Dino Schweitzer, Artificial Texturing: An Aid to Surface Visualization, Computer Graphics, Volume 17, No. 3 (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 83), pp. 23-29.
• Geoffrey Y. Gardner, Visual Simulation of Clouds, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 85, pp. 297-303.
• James T. Kajiya and Timothy L. Kay, Rendering Fur with Three Dimensional Textures, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 89, pp. 271-280.
• Ken Perlin and Eric M. Hoffert, Hypertextures, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 89, pp.253-263
• Roger Crawfis and Michael Allison, A Scientific Visualization Synthesizer, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '91, pp. 262-467, 427.
• Rheingans
• Sunghee Kim, Haleh Hagh-Shenas and Victoria Interrante, Conveying Shape with Texture: experimental investigations of texture's effects on shape categorization judgements, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume ??, Number ??, pp. ??.
• Fabrice Neyret and Marie-Paule Cani, Pattern-Based Texturing Revisted, SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Proceedings, pp. 235-242.
• Fabrizio Cuccu and Laura Moltedo, Texture Mapping for Scientific Visualization Environments,Computers & Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1993), pp. 131-136.
• Emil Praun, Adam Finkelstein and Hughes Hoppe. Lapped Textures, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pp. 465 – 470.
• Greg Turk, Texture Synthesis on Surfaces, Proceeedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, pp. 347-354.
• Fabrice Neyret, Synthesizing Verdant Landscape Using Volumetric Textures, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, pp. 215-224.
• Michael Kirby, Daniel Keefe, and David H. Laidlaw. Painting and visualization. In Chris R. Johnson and Charles Hansen, editors, Visualization Handbook. 2004. In Press