Computer display of height fields

Illumination for computer generated pictures

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

Computing, Computer Science, Visualization +12

Texture and reflection in computer generated images

J.F. Blinn, Martin E. Newell · Communications of the ACM · 1976 · 765 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Graphics +13

Understanding image intensities

Berthold K. P. Horn · Artificial Intelligence · 1977 · 696 citations

Shadow algorithms for computer graphics

Franklin C. Crow · 1977 · 538 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Visualization +15

Stochastic models for the Earth's relief, the shape and the fractal dimension of the coastlines, and the number-area rule for islands

Benoît B. Mandelbrot · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1975 · 537 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geophysics +11