SIGGRAPH 97 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM



Award Presentations

Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics
Dr. James A. Foley

1997 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Dr. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

Technical Papers

Virtual Reality and Applications
Chair: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Quantifying Immersion in Virtual Reality
Randy Pausch, Dennis Proffitt, George Williams

Moving Objects in Space: Exploiting Proprioception In Virtual-Environment Interaction
Mark R. Mine, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Carlo H. Séquin

Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the Human Colon
Lichan Hong, Shigeru Muraki, Arie Kaufman, Dirk Bartz, Taosong He

Interactive Simulation of Fire in Virtual Building Environments
Richard Bukowski, Carlo H. Séquin

Illumination
Chair: Eugene Fiume

Fitting Virtual Lights For Non-Diffuse Walkthroughs
Bruce Walter, Gün Alppay, Eric P. F. Lafortune, Sebastian Fernandez, Donald P. Greenberg

Instant Radiosity
Alexander Keller

Interactive Update of Global Illumination Using A Line-Space Hierarchy
George Drettakis, François Sillion

Metropolis Light Transport
Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas

Visibility
Chair: Thomas Funkhouser

Visibility Culling Using Hierarchical Occlusion Maps
Hansong Zhang, Dinesh Manocha, Thomas Hudson, Kenneth E. Hoff III

The Visibility Skeleton: A Powerful and Efficient Multi-Purpose Global Visibility Tool
Frédo Durand, George Drettakis, Claude Puech

Rendering Complex Scenes with Memory-Coherent Ray Tracing
Matt Pharr, Craig Kolb, Reid Gershbein, Pat Hanrahan

Illustrating Surface Shape in Volume Data via Principal Direction-Driven 3D Line Integral Convolution
Victoria L. Interrante

Fur, Film, and Light
Chair: Holly Rushmeier

Non-Linear Approximation of Reflectance Functions
Eric P. F. Lafortune, Sing-Choong Foo, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg

Fake Fur Rendering
Dan B. Goldman

A Model for Simulating the Photographic Development Process on Digital Images
Joe Geigel, F. Kenton Musgrave

A Model of Visual Masking for Computer Graphics
James A. Ferwerda, Sumanta N. Pattanaik, Peter Shirley, Donald P. Greenberg

Animation
Chair: Andy Witkin

Adapting Simulated Behaviors For New Characters
Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard

Anatomy-Based Modeling of the Human Musculature
Ferdi Scheepers, Richard E. Parent, Wayne E. Carlson, Stephen F. May

Anatomically Based Modeling
Jane Wilhelms, Allen Van Gelder

Modeling the Motion of a Hot, Turbulent Gas
Nick Foster, Dimitris Metaxas

Surface Simplification
Chair: Greg Turk

View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes
Hugues Hoppe

View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environments
David Luebke, Carl Erikson

Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics
Michael Garland, Paul S. Heckbert

Progressive Simplicial Complexes
Jovan Popovic, Hugues Hoppe

Image-Based Rendering and Panoramas
Chair: Michael Cohen

Tour Into the Picture: Using a Spidery Mesh Interface to Make Animation from a Single Image
Youichi Horry, Ken-ichi Anjyo, Kiyoshi Arai

Rendering with Coherent Layers
Jed Lengyel, John Snyder

Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation
Daniel N. Wood, Adam Finkelstein, John F. Hughes, Craig E. Thayer, David H. Salesin

Creating Full View Panoramic Mosaics and Environment Maps
Richard Szeliski, Heung-Yeung Shum

Geometry
Chair: John M. Snyder

Interactive Multiresolution Mesh Editing
Denis Zorin, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens

Interactive Boolean Operations for Conceptual Design of 3-D Solids
Ari Rappoport, Steven Spitz

Guaranteeing the Topology of an Implicit Surface Polygonization for Interactive Modeling
Barton T. Stander, John C. Hart

Fast Construction of Accurate Quaternion Splines
Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alan H. Barr

Hardware and Anti-Aliasing
Chair: Frank Crow

InfiniteReality: A Real-Time Graphics System
John S. Montrym, Daniel R. Baum, David L. Dignam, Christopher J. Migdal

Efficient Bump Mapping Hardware
Mark Peercy, John Airey, Brian Cabral

Hardware Accelerated Rendering of Antialiasing Using a Modified A-Buffer Algorithm
Bill Rivard, Stephanie Winner, Michael Kelley, Brent Pease, Alex Yen

Antialiasing of Curves by Discrete Pre-Filtering
A. E. Fabris, A. R. Forrest

Devices and Multimodal I/O
Chair: Mike Moshell

The Two-User Responsive Workbench: Support for Collaboration Through Independent Views of a Shared Space
Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew C. Beers, Bernd Fröhlich, Pat Hanrahan, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas

SCAAT: Incremental Tracking with Incomplete Information
Greg Welch, Gary Bishop

The Haptic Display of Complex Graphical Environments
Diego C. Ruspini, Krasimir Kolarov, Oussama Khatib

Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio
Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney

Texture, Reflection & Designs
Chair: Demetri Terzopoulos

Multiresolution Sampling Procedure for Analysis and Synthesis of Texture Images
Jeremy S. De Bonet

Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs
Paul E. Debevec, Jitendra Malik

Object Shape and Reflectance Modeling from Observation
Yoichi Sato, Mark D. Wheeler, Katsushi Ikeuchi

Design Galleries: A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and Animation
J. Marks, B. Andalman, P. A. Beardsley, W. Freeman, S. Gibson, J. Hodgins, T. Kang, B. Mirtich, H. Pfister, W. Ruml, K. Ryall, J. Seims, S. Shieber

Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Chair: Julie Dorsey

Orientable Textures for Image-Based Pen-and-Ink Illustration
Michael P. Salisbury, Michael T. Wong, John F. Hughes, David H. Salesin

Processing Images and Video for an Impressionist Effect
Peter Litwinowicz

Real-Time Nonphotorealistic Rendering
Lee Markosian, Michael A. Kowalski, Samuel J. Trychin, Lubomir D. Bourdev, Daniel Goldstein, John F. Hughes

Computer-Generated Watercolor
Cassidy J. Curtis, Sean E. Anderson, Joshua E. Seims, Kurt W. Fleischer, David H. Salesin

Panel Statements

The Implications of a Theory of Play for the Design of Computer Toys
Organizer: Bill Kolomyjec Panelists: Justine Cassell, Yasmine B. Kafai, Mary Williamson

Facial Animation: Past, Present, and Future
Organizer: Demetri Terzopoulos, Barbara Mones Panelists: Beth Hofer, Frederic Parke, Doug Sweetland, Keith Waters

Can We Get There From Here?: Current Challenges in Cloth Modeling, Design, and Animation
Organizer: David E. Breen Panelists: Jeffrey W. Eischen, Michael Kass, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Maurizio Vecchione

Narrative Environments: Virtual Reality as a Storytelling Medium
Organizer: Celia Pearce Panelists: Brad deGraf, C. Scott Young, Jim Ludtke, Athomas Goldberg

Motion Capture and CG Character Animation
Organizer: Gordon Cameron Panelists: Andre Bustanoby, Ken Cope, Steph Greenberg, Craig Hayes, Olivier Ozoux

The Difference Between Here and There: What Graphic Design Brings to E-Space
Organizer: Lisa Koonts Panelists: Andrew Blauvelt, Edwin Utermohlen, Laura Kusumoto, Anne Burdick, Louise Sandhaus, Natalie Buda

Interfacing Reality: Exploring Emerging Trends Between Humans and Machines
Organizer: Eric Paulos Panelists: John Canny, Eduardo Kac, Ken Goldberg, Mark Pauline, Stelarc

What 3D API for Java Should I Use and Why?
Organizer: Dave Nadeau Panelists: Brad Grantham, Colin McCartney, Mitra, Henry Sowizral

Community/Content/Interface: Creative Online Journalism
Organizer: Mark Tribe Panelists: Armin Medosch, Kathy Rae Huffman, Lev Manovich, Gary Wolf

Educating the Digital Artist for the Entertainment Industry: The Collision of Academia and Business
Organizer: Charles S. Swartz Panelists: Edwin E. Catmull, Robin King, Richard Weinberg, Jane Veeder

Medical Visualization: Why Do We Use CG and Does It Really Make a Difference in Creating Meaningful Images?
Organizers: Virginia McArthur, Carrie L. DiLorenzo Panelists: Jane Hurd, Marsha Jessup, Casey Herbert, Patrick Lynch

Putting a Human Face on Cyberspace: Designing Avatars and the Virtual Worlds They Live In
Organizer: Bruce Damer Panelists: Steve DiPaola, Ioannis Paniaras, Kirk Parsons, Bernie Roel, Moses Ma

Sounding Off on Audio: The Future of Internet Sound
Organizer: Paul Godwin Panelists: James Grunke, Eythor Arnolds, William L. Martens, Tim Cole

Image-Based Rendering: Really New or Déjà Vu?
Organizer: Michael Cohen Panelists: Eric Chen, Marc Levoy, Leonard McMillian, Jitendra Malik

The Rhetoric of the Synthetic: Images of the Body in Technology, Business, and Culture
Organizer: Lorne Falk Panelists: Bill Kroyer, Heidi Gilpin, Val Marmillion, Mark Resch

Experiences with Virtual Reality Applications
Organizer: William R. Sherman Panelists: Nina Adams, Rita Addison, R. Bowen Loftin, Ben Britton, Donna Cox, Robert Patterson

Special Session

A Framework for Realistic Image Synthesis
Donald P. Greenberg, Kenneth E. Torrance, Peter Shirley, James Arvo, James A. Ferwerda, Sumanta Pattanaik, Eric P. F. Lafortune, Bruce Walter, Sing-Choong Foo, Ben Trumbore