Realistic 3D simulation of shapes and shadows for image processing

Illumination for computer generated pictures

Bui Tuong Phong · Communications of the ACM · 1975 · 3K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Visualization +12

The rendering equation

James T. Kajiya · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1986 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Physics +11

An improved illumination model for shaded display

Turner Whitted · Communications of the ACM · 1980 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Architecture, Visualization, Computer Graphics +15

Distributed ray tracing

Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter · 1984 · 855 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Graphics +8

The hemi-cube

Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1985 · 558 citations

Architecture, Vision Science, 3D Modeling +15