UCD Graphics Reading Group Spring 2005

Time: Mondays, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Place: As shown below

Tentative Schedule for Presentations

Date	Location	Person	Paper
Jan. 24, 2005	B2.24	Hamish Carr	Measuring Bidirectional Texture Reflectance With a Kaleidoscope
Jan. 31, 2005	B2.24	Teresa Monahan and Gavin McArdle	A Web-Based Multimedia Virtual Reality Environment for E-Learning
Feb. 7, 2005	B1.09	Stephen Meredith	Exploration of the Brain's White Matter Pathways with Dynamic Queries
Feb. 14, 2005	B1.09	Abey Campbell	NeXuS: Delivering Behavioural Realism through Intentional Agents
Feb. 21, 2005	B2.24	Barry Denby	Poly Cube-Maps
Feb. 28, 2005	B2.24	Ciaran O Maoileidigh	Obscuring Length Changes During Animated Motion
Mar. 7, 2005	B2.24	cancelled	cancelled
Mar. 14, 2005		Spring Break	No meeting
Mar. 21, 2005		Spring Break	No meeting
Mar. 28, 2005		Easter Monday	No meeting
Apr. 4, 2005	B2.24	Jack Snoeyink (UNC-CH)	Pipelined processing of streaming meshes
Apr. 11, 2005	B2.24	Brian Wilson	Structural Modeling of Flames for a Production Environment
Apr. 18, 2005	B2.24	Brian Duffy	Marching cubes: A high resolution 3d surface construction algorithm
Apr. 25, 2005	B2.24	Gunnar Johansson	Parallel Computation of the Topology of Level Sets

Suggested Papers:

Here are some older (and newer) papers that I would like to have presented. Unsurprisingly, they are often ones connected with my own research.
If there is a hyperlink, then I managed to find a copy accessible on the web. Papers marked with a star are ones that I have copies of myself which can be borrowed. Otherwise, I note where the paper can be found.

Visualization:
- Marching cubes: A high resolution 3d surface construction algorithm.
  *Computer Graphics 21(4): 163-169, 1987. In the UCD Library.
  One of the most important papers in visualization.
- Volume Rendering.
  *Computer Graphics 22(4): 65-74, 1988. In the UCD Library.
  Another really important visualization paper.
- An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to assign the Phisical cause of the said Winds.
  *Philosophical Transactions 152-168, 1686.
  Despite the title, it's quite a good paper, and one of the earliest published scientific visualizations of fluid flow.
- Surface representations of two- and three-dimensional fluid flow topology.
  *Proceedings of Visualization 1990, 6-13, 1990.
  A topological approach to flow visualization.
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Chapter 1: Graphical Excellence.
  Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983: in the UCD Library.
  The standard book on how to draw meaningful graphs, charts, &c.
Computational Geometry:
- On visible surface generation by a priori tree structures.
  *Computer Graphics 14: 124-133 (1980). In the UCD Library.
  (First?) SIGGRAPH paper on Binary Space Partition (BSP) trees, which is what Doom uses for visibility culling.
Rendering Techniques:
- Computer-Generated Watercolor.
  *Computer Graphics 31: 421-430, 1997. The name says it all.
- The OpenGL Shading Language.
  *Available from www.opengl.org
  A biggish task, but potentially rewarding.
- Generating subdivision curves with L-systems on a GPU.
  *SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications.
  Shader languages, subdivision surfaces and grammars.
- Modelling seashells.
  *Computer Graphics 26(2): 379-387 (1992). In the UCD Library.
- Animation of Plant Development
  *Computer Graphics 27: 351-360 (1993). In the UCD Library?
- Integrating shape and pattern in mammalian models.
  *Computer Graphics 35: 317-326 (2001).
  This one's about designing coat patterns for jaguars, giraffes, &c.
- Fast shadows and lighting effects using texture mapping.
  *Computer Graphics 26(2): 249-252 (1992). In the UCD Library.
  Shadow mapping in hardware.
- Chromium: A stream-processing framework for interactive rendering on clusters.
  *ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3): 693-702, 2002.
  OpenGL on clustered machines.
Modelling and Animation:
- Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological surfaces.
  Computer-Aided Design 10(6):350-355, November 1978
  Subdivision surfaces: an important improvement on triangles.
- Motion Doodles: An Interface for Sketching Character Motion.
  *Computer Graphics 38: 442-449 (2004).

Sources for papers:

SIGGRAPH: The biggest graphics conference in the world, held in
late July / early August: this year in Los Angeles.
A really interesting conference, attended by Hollywood animators
and artists as well as academics.
Since 2002, SIGGRAPH papers are automatically published as journal articles as well, in ACM Transactions on Graphics. For links to previous years proceedings, go here.
Eurographics: The European cousin of SIGGRAPH. It will be held in Dublin in August/September this year. Most conferences have relatively cheap rates for students, even cheaper (or free) if you volunteer to help run the conference.
Here are links to the annual programmes for the past three years:
Grenoble, 2004
Granada, 2003
Saarbrucken, 2002
Visualization: The principal conference for visualization, in Minneapolis this year in October.
Conference Proceedings are available from the IEEE (see below). Several other conferences
are also associated with it, including ParVis, InfoVis and VolVis.
Here are links to the sessions for the past three years:
Austin, 2004
Seattle, 2003
Boston, 2003
EuroVis (aka VisSym): The European cousin of Visualization, this year in Leeds.
Since the proceedings are published by Eurographics, our library does not have a subscription.
Here are links to the sessions for last year:
Konstanz, 2004
IEEE: Many conferences and journals are published by the IEEE.
Our library has a subscription to their website
You can access the conference proceedings from here: try keywords
such as "visualization" and "graphics".