All-Frequency Shadows

Ren Ng, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Pat Hanrahan presents a method, based on pre-computed light transport, for real-time rendering of objects under all-frequency, time-varying illumination represented as a high-resolution environment map. This gives good shadows.

graphics.stanford.edu

Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces

Douglas Enright, Steve Marschner and Ronald Fedkiw describes a method designed to produce visually plausible water effects, for example the pouring of water into a glass and the breaking of an ocean wave.

graphics.stanford.edu

Bidirectional Estimators for Light Transport

Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas study techniques for reducing the sampling noise inherent in pure Monte Carlo approaches to global illumination.

graphics.stanford.edu

Henrik Wann Jensen's Publications

A list of publications mainly about Photon Mapping, Global Illumination and rendering natural phenomenon such as fire, skin and smoke.

graphics.ucsd.edu

Visual Simulation Group, University of Utah

Projects cover terrain modeling, interactive ray tracing and perception of images. Member list, publications, link collection and various resources such as spectral data for natural materials.

www.cs.utah.edu

Eric Haines' homepage

Links, PowerPoint slides from talks, publications and imagery mostly relating to ray tracing and nearby subjects.

www.acm.org

Computer Graphics Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Research mostly center around global illumination and monte carlo ray tracing. Contains some environment maps, a description of a Cornell box experiment, Publications and the RenderPark ray tracer.

www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be

The OpenRT Interactive RayTracing Project

A new interface that is supposed to become the OpenGL of interactive ray tracing. Contains publications, gallery and some links.

www.openrt.de

Philip Dutré's Publications

Mostly relating to global illumination algorithms and monte carlo light tracing.

www.graphics.cornell.edu

Image-based Rendering and Reconstruction of Surfaces with Arbitrary BRDFs

A project trying to capture the surface properties of real-life objects that cannot be effectively captured by any existing lighting models (such as Phong).

vision.ucsd.edu

Symplectic Raytracing: Raytracing with Hamiltonian Dynamics in Blackhole Spacetime

PDF file describing a method to visualize the curved spacetime around blackholes. By Tetsu Satoh, Haruo Takemura and Naokazu Yokoya.

yokoya.aist-nara.ac.jp

Radiosity: An Illuminating Perspective

Presents a summary of the state of radiosity research 1992 by S.M Drucker. In PDF format. (PDF)

research.microsoft.com

Andrew Winter's Volume Graphics Publications

Andrew Winter's published papers discussing volume visualization and volume graphics.

www.custard.org