Textbooks and Readings

There are no required textbooks, but the following are recommended. In addition, a number of papers will be distributed in the class, and links to copies of these papers will be provided here when available.

Books

An Introduction to Ray Tracing, edited by Andrew Glassner, Academic Press, 1989.
Radiosity and Global Illumination, by Francois X. Sillion and Claude Puech, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994.
Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis, by Michael Cohen and John Wallace, Academic Press, 1993.

All three are available from amazon.com, the first two also from Barnes and Noble.