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2D special effects - A master thesis about various 2D special effects

3D Coding Blackhole - A tutorial series discussing several aspects of 3D graphics programming

3D Object Intersection - A grid of intersection routines for various popular objects

A project on Graph Drawing: AGD-Library - The aim of our project is to develop efficient algorithms for automatic graph drawing that are integrated in a library (AGD-Library)

An Interactive Introduction to Splines - Bezier

Andrew's Autostereogram Pages - A detailed development of a stereogram-generation algorithm is presented

Andrija Radovic´'s Algorithms - Several unique algorithms for fast and optimal computations with integer numbers and graphics suitable for hardware implementation: dividing

BSP Tree FAQ - How to manipulate and use binary space partition (BSP) trees.

Chris Bregler's home page - Research and recent papers on video-based capture of human movements. The main applications are feature animation

comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions - Basic computations frequently needed in graphics.

DDJ - July 1995: BSP Trees

Exaflop - Articles of interest to computer graphics.

FAQSYS - A wealth of programming links

Fast Line Drawing Algorithms by Po-Han Lin - Contains sources for graphical algorithms to draw lines. Included are the popular Bresenham algorithm

Faster 3D Graphics by Not Drawing What Is Not Seen - Published in Crossroads

GFX - Several articles on real-time graphics rendering.

GFX: Computer Graphics Programming - Several articles on advanced graphics programming

Graphics Gems Repository - The official site for source code

Hardware Perlin Noise Demonstration - Article by Paul R. Dunn. Describes a fast way to generate perlin noise by using 3D texture blending hardware.

HiEnd3D - Dedicated to all kinds of innovations in interactive 3D graphics. It's all about new interesting ideas

Hugues Hoppe's Homepage - A collection of research graphics articles.

Implicit Surfaces - 3D modeling using implicit surfaces blended based on a CSG tree. Publications on the theory

Inferno Project - The research of Ray Tracing accelerated by modern Graphics Hardware (GPU).

JavaCoding.net - Gfx Programming - 2D and 3D Java graphics programming articles.

Ken Turkowski's Contributions in Computer Graphics - Antialiasing

Levels of Detail and Polygonal Simplification - "This paper covers the techniques of Polygonal Simplification in order to produce Levels of Detail (LODs). The problem of creating LODs is a complex one: how can simpler versions of a model be created? How can the approximation error be measu

Map Projection - Very basic grey page with some useful links on map projection.

Map Projection Overview - Everything you always wanted to know about map projections

Medical Articles Records GroundTruth - This site contains ground truth data for biomedical images to help develop algorithms to automatically extract information from the printed page. There is also a visual tool and analysis tool called Rover to aid researchers with their algorithms.

Modeling Ocean Waves using IFFTs - A practical tutorial on using the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform to generate and animate a deep ocean wave heightfield. Includes source and demo.

Modeling Sprite Animation Using Finite State Automata - Article by Diana Gruber on how to model sprite animation in a computer game.

Portal Technique for Real-time 3D Engines - This document describes how you can render a set of 3D polygons using the portal technique.

PseudoGrey - Algorithm allows accurate encoding and decoding of 1786 levels of grey within a 24-bit image; text overview

Ray Tracing News - An infrequent newsletter on ray tracing and general computer-graphics research and resources.

Ray Tracing News Index - Hand-built topic index to some of the articles.

Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes (ROAM) - A paper describing a method for continuously maintaining view-dependent triangular meshes to achieve desired frame rates.

Representing a Camera in a 3D Real-time Engine - This article describes how you can use a 3x3 matrix and a vector to represent a camera in a 3D viewing system.

Shadow Generation Algorithms - This page gives a link to a (compressed postscript) paper on a shadow generation algorithm.

STEEL's Programming Resource Page - A website with information

Stylized Depiction - Survey of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) for computer graphics and animation: painterly rendering

Texture Mapping as a Fundamental Drawing Primitive - Article by Paul Haeberli and Mark Segal. Survey of applications of texture mapping including simple texture mapping

The Progressive Fans Representation - A new technology for progressive transmission and view-dependent simplification of manifold and non-manifold meshes.

VDSlib: A View-Dependent Simplification Package - Public domain package for view-dependent simplification and rendering of polygonal environments.

Xvox demo - Trilinear displacement mapping and depth addaptive tessellation with DX8. Terrain rendering example provided

Zime: archaic ornament and data encoding vehicle - Personal graphical signet for your internet site and/or HTML email.