Representation, display, and manipulation of 3D digital scenes and their medical applications

An improved illumination model for shaded display

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

Architecture, Visualization, Computer Graphics +15

Geometric modeling using octree encoding

Donald J. Meagher · Computer Graphics and Image Processing · 1982 · 1.2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +9

Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours

Henry Fuchs, Zvi M. Kedem, Samuel P. Uselton · Communications of the ACM · 1977 · 795 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +9

Ray casting for modeling solids

Scott D Roth · Computer Graphics and Image Processing · 1982 · 606 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +10

Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures

J.F. Blinn · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1977 · 586 citations · Full text

Architecture, Materials Science, Digital Rendering +16