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Rendering

• An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display

• The Rendering Equation

• GigaVoxels : Ray-Guided Streaming for Efficient and Detailed Voxel Rendering - Web page - Project page - Video

Surface reconstruction

• Poisson surface reconstruction - Code

• KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera

Object modeling

• 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo - Video

Lighting

• Light Propagation Volumes in CryEngine 3

Bump mapping

• Interactive Horizon Mapping: Shadows for bump-mapped surfaces

Interior mapping

• Interior Mapping: A new technique for rendering realistic buildings

Procedural modeling

• Both of these papers are great examples of a non-traditional application of grammar-driven generation:
  • Procedural Modeling of Buildings
  • Instant Architecture

Shape grammars

• Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture
  • A seminal paper that lead to many interesting applications in graphics as well as more broadly in design; see also the bibliography at shapegrammar.org.