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General Resources

• Introduction to Computer Graphics - A great introductory video series by Cem Yuksel.
• Physically Based Rendering in Filament - A comprehensive introduction to PBR.
• fxguide - Comprehensive and in-depth articles about VFX production.
• Real-Time Rendering Resources from “Real-Time Rendering” 4/e.
  • Graphics Books - A detailed book list about computer graphics.
• Computer Graphics Research Software (Last updated in 2012)
• flipcode (Last updated in 2004)

Research

• Ke-Sen Huang’s Home Page - Paper collections for SIGGRAPH/EG/I3D/EGSR
  • Quasi Complete Online SIGGRAPH Course Notes (99-07)
• How to Create a Graphics Research Paper by Morgan McGuire
• SIGGRAPH Links of Courses & Talks by Stephen Hill
  • 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
• Common mistakes in technical writing by Wojciech Jarosz
• Confessions of a researchaholic by Li-Yi Wei
• Tips for Giving Clear Talks by Kayvon Fatahalian

Computer Animation

• Technology Publications from Disney Animation
• Pixar Online Library
• Physics-Based Animation, maintained by Christopher Batty
• Sony Pictures Imageworks (Last updated in 2011)
• Autodesk Research

Real-time Techniques

• GDC Valut
• NVIDIA Research Publications
• Intel Graphics Research
• AMD GPU Open: Research Publications
• Frostbite engine
• Valve
• Square Enix

Course Materials

• Polygon Mesh Processing
• Graphics Cources at CMU
• Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming by Kayvon Fatahalian.

Animation

• Computer Animation, CSE169 - Winter 2020, UCSD
• Physically Based Modeling by Andrew Witkin and David Baraff, SIGGRAPH 2001 Course Notes.
  • IMHO, this is the best introductory course note to learn about the implementations for physically based animation.
• Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics CS567/Cornell.

Rendering

• Physics-Based Rendering, 15-468, 15-668, 15-868 at CMU.
• Advanced Computer Graphics, 15-864/CMU.

Math

• Essential Math for Game Developers
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics by Greg Turk.
• Highlights of Calculus, by Prof. Gilbert Strang.
• Linear Algebra, MIT 18.06.
• Mathematical Methods for Robotics, Vision, and Graphics, CS205a/Stanford.
• Differential Geometry for Computer Science, CS468/Stanford.

Open Source

• ASWF - Academy Software Foundation
• Disney - PTex, Partio, BRDF Explorer, etc.
• Sony Pictures Imageworks - Alembic, OpenColorIO, etc.
• Blender
• Unreal Engine
• Taichi Lang

Scene Description

• glTF
• USD
• OpenVDB from DreamWorks.

Geometry

• CGAL - The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
• Geometry Tools
• LibIGL (tutorial) from ETH Zurich
  • Lucid tutorial and source code for polygon mesh processing algorithms and optimization techniques.
• MeshLab
• OpenSubdiv from Pixar.

Physics

• Bullet
• PhysBAM
• Vega FEM
• MantaFlow

Image

• STB Image
• OpenEXR
• OpenImageIO
• FreeImage
• Halide
• Basis Universal

Dataset

• McGuire Computer Graphics Archive
• The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
• ORCA: Open Research Content Archive
  • Amazon Lumberyard Bistro
• Disney Data Sets
  • Moana Island Scene
  • Clouds
• MERL BRDF database
• Material Database from RGL at EPFL

Light Probes

• High-Resolution Light Probe Image Gallery from USC ICT
• Light Probe Image Gallery by Paul Debevec
• sIBL Archive from HDR Labs