People and Organizations

Kurt Akeley

• 1988 High-performance polygon rendering (SGI GTX), at Silicon Graphics (SGI), with Tom Jermoluk
  Kurt Akeley, Tom Jermoluk, High-performance polygon rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 239-246, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378516
• 1992 OpenGL 1.0 specification, at Silicon Graphics (SGI), with Mark Segal
  Segal, M. and Akeley, K., The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification (Version 1.0), Silicon Graphics, Inc., copyright 1992-1994 (document dated 1 July 1994)
• 1993 RealityEngine graphics, at Silicon Graphics (SGI)
  Kurt Akeley, Reality Engine graphics, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 109-116, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166131

• 1995 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Tomas Akenine-Möller

• 1997 Möller-Trumbore ray-triangle intersection, at Chalmers University of Technology, with Ben Trumbore
  Tomas Möller, Ben Trumbore, Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection, Journal of Graphics Tools 2(1), pp. 21-28, 1997, doi:10.1080/10867651.1997.10487468

Rebecca Allen

• 1982 The Catherine Wheel (computer-animated figure for Twyla Tharp), at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Allen, R., works list: Catherine Wheel, 1982, performance film (artist's site); also listed at ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, SIGGRAPH 1986 retrospective

Martin D. Altschuler

• 1982 Structured light (space-encoded projected beams), with Jeffrey L. Posdamer
  J. L. Posdamer, M. D. Altschuler, Surface measurement by space-encoded projected beam systems, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 18(1), 1982, doi:10.1016/0146-664X(82)90096-X

Nina Amenta

• 1998 Crust: Voronoi-based surface reconstruction, at Xerox PARC
  Nina Amenta, Marshall Bern, Manolis Kamvysselis, A new Voronoi-based surface reconstruction algorithm, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 415-421, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280947

Arthur Appel

• 1967 Quantitative invisibility (hidden lines), at IBM (Research and Systems)
  Arthur Appel, The notion of quantitative invisibility and the machine rendering of solids, Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference on -, pp. 387-393, 1967, doi:10.1145/800196.806007
• 1968 Ray casting for shading and shadows, at IBM (Research and Systems)
  Arthur Appel, Some techniques for shading machine renderings of solids, Proceedings of the April 30--May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '68 (Spring), pp. 37, 1968, doi:10.1145/1468075.1468082

Ronald M. Baecker

• 1969 Picture-driven animation (GENESYS), at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (TX-2)
  Ronald M. Baecker, Picture-driven animation, Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference on XX - AFIPS '69 (Spring), pp. 273, 1969, doi:10.1145/1476793.1476838

Kavita Bala

• 2005 Lightcuts, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
  Bruce Walter, Sebastian Fernandez, Adam Arbree, Kavita Bala, Michael Donikian, Donald P. Greenberg, Lightcuts, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3), pp. 1098-1107, 2005, doi:10.1145/1073204.1073318

• 2020 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

David Baraff

• 1989 Non-penetrating rigid-body dynamics, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
  D. Baraff, Analytical methods for dynamic simulation of non-penetrating rigid bodies, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 223-232, 1989, doi:10.1145/74333.74356
• 1998 Large steps in cloth simulation, at Pixar, with Andrew Witkin
  David Baraff, Andrew Witkin, Large steps in cloth simulation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 43-54, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280821

Alan H. Barr

• 1981 Superquadrics, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Barr, Superquadrics and Angle-Preserving Transformations, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 1(1), pp. 11-23, 1981, doi:10.1109/MCG.1981.1673799
• 1984 Global and local deformations (twist, taper, bend)
  Alan H. Barr, Global and local deformations of solid primitives, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 21-30, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808573
• 1987 Elastically deformable models, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Demetri Terzopoulos
  Demetri Terzopoulos, John Platt, Alan Barr, Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 205-214, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37427
• 1995 Cellular texture generation, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Kurt W. Fleischer
  Kurt W. Fleischer, David H. Laidlaw, Bena L. Currin, Alan H. Barr, Cellular texture generation, SIGGRAPH 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218447

• 1988 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Brian A. Barsky

• 1983 Beta-splines (bias and tension), at UC Berkeley, EECS, with John C. Beatty
  Brian A. Barsky, John C. Beatty, Local Control of Bias and Tension in Beta-splines, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2(2), pp. 109-134, 1983, doi:10.1145/357318.357321

John C. Beatty

• 1983 Beta-splines (bias and tension), at University of Waterloo, with Brian A. Barsky
  Brian A. Barsky, John C. Beatty, Local Control of Bias and Tension in Beta-splines, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2(2), pp. 109-134, 1983, doi:10.1145/357318.357321

Thaddeus Beier

• 1992 Feature-based image metamorphosis (morphing), at Pacific Data Images, with Shawn Neely
  Thaddeus Beier, Shawn Neely, Feature-based image metamorphosis, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 35-42, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134003

Jon Louis Bentley

• 1975 k-d tree (multidimensional binary search trees), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  Jon Louis Bentley, Multidimensional binary search trees used for associative searching, Communications of the ACM 18(9), pp. 509-517, 1975, doi:10.1145/361002.361007

Pierre Bézier

• 1971 UNISURF (Bézier curves and surfaces at Renault), at Renault
  P. E. Bézier, Example of an existing system in the motor industry: the Unisurf system, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 321(1545), pp. 207-218, 1971, doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0027

• 1985 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

James F. Blinn

• 1976 Environment (reflection) mapping, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Martin E. Newell
  James F. Blinn, Martin E. Newell, Texture and reflection in computer generated images, Communications of the ACM 19(10), pp. 542-547, 1976, doi:10.1145/360349.360353
• 1977 Blinn-Phong reflection model, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  James F. Blinn, Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures, Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 192-198, 1977, doi:10.1145/563858.563893
• 1978 Bump mapping, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  James F. Blinn, Simulation of wrinkled surfaces, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 286-292, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.507101
• 1982 Blobby (metaball) implicit surfaces, at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  James F. Blinn, A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing, ACM Transactions on Graphics 1(3), pp. 235-256, 1982, doi:10.1145/357306.357310
• 2005 Resolution-independent GPU curve rendering, at Microsoft Research, with Charles Loop
  Charles Loop, Jim Blinn, Resolution independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3), pp. 1000-1009, 2005, doi:10.1145/1073204.1073303

• 1983 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 1999 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Jules Bloomenthal

• 1985 Modeling the mighty maple (tree modeling), at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Jules Bloomenthal, Modeling the mighty maple, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 305-311, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325249
• 1988 Polygonization of implicit surfaces, at Xerox PARC
  Jules Bloomenthal, Polygonization of implicit surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design 5(4), pp. 341-355, 1988, doi:10.1016/0167-8396(88)90013-1

Matthew Bolitho

• 2006 Poisson surface reconstruction, at Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science, with Michael Kazhdan
  Michael Kazhdan, Matthew Bolitho, Hugues Hoppe, Poisson surface reconstruction, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006, doi:10.2312/SGP/SGP06/061-070

Matthew Brand

• 2003 MERL BRDF database (data-driven reflectance model), at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, with Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik
  Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Matt Brand, Leonard McMillan, A data-driven reflectance model, ACM TOG 22(3), pp. 759-769, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882343

Jack E. Bresenham

• 1965 Bresenham line algorithm, at IBM (Research and Systems)
  J. E. Bresenham, Algorithm for computer control of a digital plotter, IBM Systems Journal 4(1), pp. 25-30, 1965, doi:10.1147/sj.41.0025
• 1977 Bresenham circle algorithm, at IBM (Research and Systems)
  Jack Bresenham, A linear algorithm for incremental digital display of circular arcs, Communications of the ACM 20(2), pp. 100-106, 1977, doi:10.1145/359423.359432

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

• 1986 Walkthrough virtual building system, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science
  Brooks, F. P., Walkthrough: a dynamic graphics system for simulating virtual buildings, Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D), published 1987, doi:10.1145/319120.319122
• 2002 Physiological measures of presence in VR, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with Mary C. Whitton
  Michael Meehan, Brent Insko, Mary Whitton, Frederick P. Brooks, Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 645-652, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566630

Brent Burley

• 2008 Ptex per-face texture mapping, at Walt Disney Animation Studios
  Brent Burley, Dylan Lacewell, Ptex: Per‐Face Texture Mapping for Production Rendering, Computer Graphics Forum 27(4), pp. 1155-1164, 2008, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01253.x
• 2012 Disney principled BRDF, at Walt Disney Animation Studios
  Burley, B., Physically-based shading at Disney, course notes, SIGGRAPH 2012 course Practical Physically-Based Shading in Film and Game Production, 2012

Tom W. Calvert

• 1980 Sensor-based capture of human movement for animation, at Simon Fraser University
  T. W. Calvert, J. Chapman, A. Patla, The integration of subjective and objective data in the animation of human movement, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807492
• 1982 Aspects of the kinematic simulation of human movement, at Simon Fraser University
  Calvert, Chapman, Patla, Aspects of the kinematic simulation of human movement, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2(9), 1982, doi:10.1109/MCG.1982.1674484

Marie-Paule Cani

• 1997 Deformable models with implicit surfaces, at INRIA, with Mathieu Desbrun
  M. Cani-Gascuel, M. Desbrun, Animation of deformable models using implicit surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 3(1), pp. 39-50, 1997, doi:10.1109/2945.582343

• 2023 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Loren Carpenter

• 1982 Fractal terrain (rendering of stochastic models), at Boeing, with Alain Fournier, Don Fussell
  Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, Loren Carpenter, Computer rendering of stochastic models, Communications of the ACM 25(6), pp. 371-384, 1982, doi:10.1145/358523.358553
• 1984 A-buffer, at Lucasfilm Computer Division
  Loren Carpenter, The A -buffer, an antialiased hidden surface method, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 103-108, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808585
• 1988 Volume rendering (Pixar), at Pixar, with Robert A. Drebin, Pat Hanrahan
  Robert A. Drebin, Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Volume rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 65-74, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378484

• 1985 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Paul de Faget de Casteljau

• 1999 Autobiography: Citroën curve and surface work (1959 onward), at Citroën
  Paul de Faget de Casteljau, De Casteljau's autobiography: My time at Citroën, Computer Aided Geometric Design 16(7), pp. 583-586, 1999, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00024-2
• 1999 De Casteljau algorithm (analysis by Boehm and Müller), at Citroën
  Wolfgang Boehm, Andreas Müller, On de Casteljau's algorithm, Computer Aided Geometric Design 16(7), pp. 587-605, 1999, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00023-0

Edwin Catmull

• 1974 Catmull-Rom splines, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Raphael Rom
  Edwin Catmull, Raphael Rom, A CLASS OF LOCAL INTERPOLATING SPLINES, Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 317-326, 1974, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-079050-0.50020-5
• 1975 Z-buffer and texture mapping (Computer display of curved surfaces), at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Edwin Catmull, Computer display of curved surfaces, Seminal graphics, pp. 35-41, 1998, doi:10.1145/280811.280920 (1975 conference paper; DOI is the 1998 Seminal Graphics reprint)
• 1978 Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, with James H. Clark
  E. Catmull, J. Clark, Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 350-355, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90110-0
• 1978 Hidden-surface algorithm with anti-aliasing, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Edwin Catmull, A hidden-surface algorithm with anti-aliasing, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 6-11, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807360
• 1980 Two-pass scanline image warping, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, with Alvy Ray Smith
  Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, 3-D transformations of images in scanline order, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), pp. 279-285, 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807505
• 1987 Reyes rendering architecture, at Pixar, with Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter
  Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter, Edwin Catmull, The Reyes image rendering architecture, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 95-102, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37414

• 1993 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award
• 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award

James H. Clark

• 1976 Hierarchical geometric models (level of detail, bounding volumes), at University of Utah, Computer Science
  James H. Clark, Hierarchical geometric models for visible surface algorithms, Communications of the ACM 19(10), pp. 547-554, 1976, doi:10.1145/360349.360354
• 1978 Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Edwin Catmull
  E. Catmull, J. Clark, Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 350-355, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90110-0
• 1982 Geometry Engine (VLSI geometry pipeline), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  James H. Clark, The Geometry Engine, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 16(3), pp. 127-133, 1982, doi:10.1145/965145.801272

• 1984 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Elaine Cohen

• 1980 Oslo algorithm (discrete B-splines, knot insertion), at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Richard F. Riesenfeld, Tom Lyche
  Elaine Cohen, Tom Lyche, Richard Riesenfeld, Discrete B-splines and subdivision techniques in computer-aided geometric design and computer graphics, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 14(2), pp. 87-111, 1980, doi:10.1016/0146-664X(80)90040-4
• 1998 Gooch shading (non-photorealistic lighting for technical illustration), at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch
  Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Shirley, Elaine Cohen, A non-photorealistic lighting model for automatic technical illustration, SIGGRAPH 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280950

Michael F. Cohen

• 1985 Hemi-cube form factors, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Donald P. Greenberg
  Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg, The hemi-cube, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 31-40, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325171
• 1988 Progressive refinement radiosity, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Donald P. Greenberg
  Michael F. Cohen, Shenchang Eric Chen, John R. Wallace, Donald P. Greenberg, A progressive refinement approach to fast radiosity image generation, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378487
• 1996 The Lumigraph, at Microsoft Research, with Richard Szeliski
  Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen, The lumigraph, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 43-54, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237200

• 1998 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2019 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Daniel Cohen-Or

• 2004 Laplacian surface editing, at Tel Aviv University, with Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Hans-Peter Seidel
  O. Sorkine, D. Cohen-Or, Y. Lipman, M. Alexa, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Laplacian surface editing, Proceedings of the 2004 Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Geometry processing, pp. 175-184, 2004, doi:10.1145/1057432.1057456

• 2018 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Robert L. Cook

• 1982 Cook-Torrance microfacet reflectance model, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Kenneth E. Torrance
  R. L. Cook, K. E. Torrance, A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 1(1), pp. 7-24, 1982, doi:10.1145/357290.357293
• 1984 Distributed (stochastic) ray tracing, at Lucasfilm Computer Division, with Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter
  Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter, Distributed ray tracing, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 137-145, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808590
• 1984 Shade trees, at Lucasfilm Computer Division
  Robert L. Cook, Shade trees, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 223-231, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808602
• 1986 Stochastic sampling, at Pixar
  Robert L. Cook, Stochastic sampling in computer graphics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 5(1), pp. 51-72, 1986, doi:10.1145/7529.8927
• 1987 Reyes rendering architecture, at Pixar, with Loren Carpenter, Edwin Catmull
  Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter, Edwin Catmull, The Reyes image rendering architecture, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 95-102, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37414

• 1987 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2009 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Steven A. Coons

• 1967 Coons patch (Surfaces for computer-aided design of space forms, MAC-TR-41), at MIT Project MAC
  Steven A. Coons, SURFACES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF SPACE FORMS, 1967, doi:10.21236/ad0663504

Donna J. Cox

• 1988 Renaissance teams: artist's contribution to scientific visualization, at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  Donna J. Cox, Using the Supercomputer to Visualize Higher Dimensions: An Artist's Contribution to Scientific Visualization, Leonardo 21(3), pp. 233, 1988, doi:10.2307/1578648

• 2019 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Franklin C. Crow

• 1977 The aliasing problem in shaded images, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Franklin C. Crow, The aliasing problem in computer-generated shaded images, Communications of the ACM 20(11), pp. 799-805, 1977, doi:10.1145/359863.359869
• 1977 Shadow volumes, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Franklin C. Crow, Shadow algorithms for computer graphics, Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 242-248, 1977, doi:10.1145/563858.563901
• 1984 Summed-area tables, at Xerox PARC
  Franklin C. Crow, Summed-area tables for texture mapping, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 207-212, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808600

Carolina Cruz-Neira

• 1993 CAVE projection-based virtual reality, at University of Illinois Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, with Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti
  Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 135-142, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166134

Charles A. Csuri

• 1968 Art, computers and mathematics, at Ohio State University (CGRG, later ACCAD), with James Shaffer
  Charles Csuri, James Shaffer, Art, computers and mathematics, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part II on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part II), pp. 1293, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476706.1476759

• 2011 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Brian Curless

• 1996 Volumetric range-image merging (VRIP), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Marc Levoy
  Brian Curless, Marc Levoy, A volumetric method for building complex models from range images, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 303-312, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237269

Andries van Dam

• 1982 Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with Foley), at Brown University, Computer Science, with James D. Foley
  Richard Land, James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 17(1), pp. 59, 1984, doi:10.2307/1574879 (book 1982; DOI is a 1984 review in Leonardo)

• 1991 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Kim Davidson

• 1987 PRISMS procedural graphics application, at SideFX (Side Effects Software), with Greg Hermanovic
  SideFX, About SideFX: Davidson and Hermanovic created Side Effects Software and released PRISMS in 1987

Paul E. Debevec

• 1996 Facade: image-based modeling of architecture, at UC Berkeley, EECS, with Jitendra Malik
  Paul E. Debevec, Camillo J. Taylor, Jitendra Malik, Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 11-20, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237191
• 1997 HDR radiance maps from photographs, at UC Berkeley, EECS, with Jitendra Malik
  Paul E. Debevec, Jitendra Malik, Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 369-378, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258884
• 1998 Image-based lighting with light probes, at UC Berkeley, EECS
  Paul Debevec, Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 189-198, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280864
• 2000 Light Stage (reflectance field of a face), at USC Institute for Creative Technologies
  Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, Chris Tchou, Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Westley Sarokin, Mark Sagar, Acquiring the reflectance field of a human face, Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '00, pp. 145-156, 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.344855

Thomas A. DeFanti

• 1993 CAVE projection-based virtual reality, at University of Illinois Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, with Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin
  Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 135-142, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166134

Tony DeRose

• 1992 Surface reconstruction from unorganized points, at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, with Hugues Hoppe
  Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John McDonald, Werner Stuetzle, Surface reconstruction from unorganized points, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 71-78, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134011
• 1998 Subdivision surfaces in character animation (Geri's Game), at Pixar, with Michael Kass
  Tony DeRose, Michael Kass, Tien Truong, Subdivision surfaces in character animation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 85-94, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280826

• 1999 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Mathieu Desbrun

• 1997 Deformable models with implicit surfaces, at INRIA, with Marie-Paule Cani
  M. Cani-Gascuel, M. Desbrun, Animation of deformable models using implicit surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 3(1), pp. 39-50, 1997, doi:10.1109/2945.582343

Daniel Doo

• 1978 Doo-Sabin subdivision, at Brunel University, with Malcolm A. Sabin
  D. Doo, M. Sabin, Behaviour of recursive division surfaces near extraordinary points, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 356-360, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90111-2

Julie Dorsey

• 2002 Bilateral-filter HDR tone mapping, at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Frédo Durand
  Frédo Durand, Julie Dorsey, Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 257-266, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566574

Robert A. Drebin

• 1988 Volume rendering, at Pixar, with Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan
  Robert A. Drebin, Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Volume rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 65-74, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378484

George Drettakis

• 1994 Backprojection soft shadows for area lights, at University of Toronto, Dynamic Graphics Project
  George Drettakis, Eugene Fiume, A fast shadow algorithm for area light sources using backprojection, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 223-230, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192207
• 2023 3D Gaussian splatting, at INRIA, with Bernhard Kerbl
  Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkuehler, George Drettakis, 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(4), pp. 1-14, 2023, doi:10.1145/3592433

• 2025 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Tom Duff

• 1984 Alpha compositing (Porter-Duff operators), at Lucasfilm Computer Division, with Thomas Porter
  Thomas Porter, Tom Duff, Compositing digital images, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 253-259, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808606
• 1985 Compositing 3D rendered images (rgbaz), at Bell Labs
  Tom Duff, Compositing 3-D rendered images, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 41-44, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325174

Frédo Durand

• 2002 Bilateral-filter HDR tone mapping, at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Julie Dorsey
  Frédo Durand, Julie Dorsey, Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 257-266, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566574

• 2016 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Alexei A. Efros

• 1999 Texture synthesis by non-parametric sampling, at UC Berkeley, EECS
  A. A. Efros, T. K. Leung, Texture synthesis by non-parametric sampling, ICCV 1999, doi:10.1109/ICCV.1999.790383
• 2001 Image quilting, at UC Berkeley, EECS
  Alexei A. Efros, William T. Freeman, Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 341-346, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383296

José Luis Encarnação

• 1995 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Douglas C. Engelbart

• 1962 Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, at SRI International (Augmentation Research Center)
  D. C. ENGELBART, AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK, 1962, doi:10.21236/ad0289565
• 1968 NLS and the 1968 demonstration (Augmentation Research Center), at SRI International (Augmentation Research Center), with William K. English
  Douglas C. Engelbart, William K. English, A research center for augmenting human intellect, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I), pp. 395, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476589.1476645
• 1970 Mouse (X-Y position indicator) patent, at SRI International (Augmentation Research Center)
  Engelbart, D. C., X-Y position indicator for a display system, US Patent 3,541,541, filed 1967-06-21, granted 1970-11-17

• 1997 ACM A.M. Turing Award

William K. English

• 1968 NLS and the 1968 demonstration (Augmentation Research Center), at SRI International (Augmentation Research Center), with Douglas C. Engelbart
  Douglas C. Engelbart, William K. English, A research center for augmenting human intellect, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I), pp. 395, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476589.1476645

Douglas Enright

• 2002 Particle level set for water surfaces, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Stephen R. Marschner, Ronald Fedkiw
  Douglas Enright, Stephen Marschner, Ronald Fedkiw, Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces, ACM TOG 21(3), 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566645

David C. Evans

• 1971 Graphical Man/Machine Communications (Utah ARPA program report), at University of Utah, Computer Science
  David C. Evans, Graphical Man/Machine Communications, 1971, doi:10.21236/ad0726623

• 1989 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Andreas Fabri

• 1996 The CGAL kernel, at CGAL Project (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library), with Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra
  Andreas Fabri, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra, Sven Schönherr, The CGAL kernel: a basis for geometric computation, Applied Computational Geometry (WACG 1996), LNCS 1148, 1996, doi:10.1007/BFb0014496

Luca Fascione

• 2018 Manuka spectral production path tracer, at Weta Digital (Wētā FX)
  Luca Fascione, Johannes Hanika, Mark Leone, Marc Droske, Jorge Schwarzhaupt, Tomáš Davidovič, Andrea Weidlich, Johannes Meng, Manuka, ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(3), pp. 1-18, 2018, doi:10.1145/3182161

Ronald Fedkiw

• 2001 Visual simulation of smoke, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Jos Stam, Henrik Wann Jensen
  Ronald Fedkiw, Jos Stam, Henrik Wann Jensen, Visual simulation of smoke, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 15-22, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383260
• 2001 Practical animation of liquids (level sets with particles), at Pacific Data Images, with Nick Foster
  Nick Foster, Ronald Fedkiw, Practical animation of liquids, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383261
• 2002 Particle level set for water surfaces, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Douglas Enright, Stephen R. Marschner
  Douglas Enright, Stephen Marschner, Ronald Fedkiw, Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces, ACM TOG 21(3), 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566645

William A. Fetter

• 1982 Human figure simulation series (Boeing Man), at Boeing
  Fetter, A Progression of Human Figures Simulated by Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2(9), pp. 9-13, 1982, doi:10.1109/MCG.1982.1674468

Kurt W. Fleischer

• 1995 Cellular texture generation, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Alan H. Barr
  Kurt W. Fleischer, David H. Laidlaw, Bena L. Currin, Alan H. Barr, Cellular texture generation, SIGGRAPH 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218447

Max Fleischer

• 1917 Rotoscope (patent filed 1915, granted 1917)
  Max Fleischer, Method of producing moving-picture cartoons, US patent 1,242,674, filed 6 December 1915, granted 9 October 1917

James D. Foley

• 1974 Natural graphic man-machine conversation (interaction techniques)
  J.D. Foley, V.L. Wallace, The art of natural graphic man-machine conversation, Proceedings of the IEEE 62(4), pp. 462-471, 1974, doi:10.1109/PROC.1974.9450
• 1982 Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with van Dam), at George Washington University, with Andries van Dam
  Richard Land, James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 17(1), pp. 59, 1984, doi:10.2307/1574879 (book 1982; DOI is a 1984 review in Leonardo)
• 1984 Human factors of graphics interaction techniques, at George Washington University
  James D. Foley, Victor L. Wallace, Peggy Chan, The human factors of computer graphics interaction techniques, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 4(11), pp. 13-48, 1984, doi:10.1109/MCG.1984.6429355

• 1997 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

A. Robin Forrest

• 1972 Bézier curves as Bernstein polynomials (interactive interpolation), at University of Cambridge, CAD Group
  A. R. Forrest, Interactive Interpolation and Approximation by Bezier Polynomials, The Computer Journal 15(1), pp. 71-79, 1972, doi:10.1093/comjnl/15.1.71

Nick Foster

• 2001 Practical animation of liquids (level sets with particles), at Pacific Data Images, with Ronald Fedkiw
  Nick Foster, Ronald Fedkiw, Practical animation of liquids, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383261

Alain Fournier

• 1982 Fractal terrain (rendering of stochastic models), at University of Texas at Austin, with Don Fussell, Loren Carpenter
  Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, Loren Carpenter, Computer rendering of stochastic models, Communications of the ACM 25(6), pp. 371-384, 1982, doi:10.1145/358523.358553
• 1986 Ocean waves model, at University of Toronto, Dynamic Graphics Project, with William T. Reeves
  Alain Fournier, William T. Reeves, A simple model of ocean waves, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15894

Henry Fuchs

• 1977 Surface reconstruction from planar contours, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  H. Fuchs, Z. M. Kedem, S. P. Uselton, Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours, Communications of the ACM 20(10), pp. 693-702, 1977, doi:10.1145/359842.359846
• 1980 BSP trees for visible surfaces, at University of Texas at Dallas, with Bruce F. Naylor
  Henry Fuchs, Zvi M. Kedem, Bruce F. Naylor, On visible surface generation by a priori tree structures, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), pp. 124-133, 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807481
• 1985 Pixel-Planes rendering hardware, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with John Poulton
  Henry Fuchs, Jack Goldfeather, Jeff P. Hultquist, Susan Spach, John D. Austin, Frederick P. Brooks, John G. Eyles, John Poulton, Fast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and imgage enhancements in pixel-planes, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 111-120, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325205

• 1992 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2015 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Yasutaka Furukawa

• 2010 Patch-based multi-view stereo (PMVS), with Jean Ponce
  Yasutaka Furukawa, Jean Ponce, Accurate, dense, and robust multiview stereopsis, IEEE TPAMI 32(8), 2010, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2009.161

Don Fussell

• 1982 Fractal terrain (rendering of stochastic models), at University of Texas at Austin, with Alain Fournier, Loren Carpenter
  Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, Loren Carpenter, Computer rendering of stochastic models, Communications of the ACM 25(6), pp. 371-384, 1982, doi:10.1145/358523.358553

Michael Garland

• 1997 Quadric error metric simplification, at Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science, with Paul S. Heckbert
  Michael Garland, Paul S. Heckbert, Surface simplification using quadric error metrics, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 209-216, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258849

Michael Gleicher

• 2002 Motion graphs, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Computer Sciences, with Lucas Kovar
  Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher, Frédéric Pighin, Motion graphs, SIGGRAPH 2002 (ACM TOG 21(3)), doi:10.1145/566570.566605

Amy Gooch

• 1998 Gooch shading (non-photorealistic lighting for technical illustration), at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Bruce Gooch, Elaine Cohen
  Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Shirley, Elaine Cohen, A non-photorealistic lighting model for automatic technical illustration, SIGGRAPH 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280950

Bruce Gooch

• 1998 Gooch shading (non-photorealistic lighting for technical illustration), at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Amy Gooch, Elaine Cohen
  Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Shirley, Elaine Cohen, A non-photorealistic lighting model for automatic technical illustration, SIGGRAPH 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280950

Cindy M. Goral

• 1984 Radiosity for computer graphics (Cornell box), at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg
  Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile, Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 213-222, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808601

William J. Gordon

• 1974 B-spline curves and surfaces for CAD, at General Motors Research Laboratories, with Richard F. Riesenfeld
  William J. Gordon, Richard F. Riesenfeld, B-SPLINE CURVES AND SURFACES, Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 95-126, 1974, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-079050-0.50011-4

Henri Gouraud

• 1971 Gouraud shading, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  H. Gouraud, Continuous Shading of Curved Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Computers C-20(6), pp. 623-629, 1971, doi:10.1109/T-C.1971.223313

Donald P. Greenberg

• 1984 Radiosity for computer graphics (Cornell box), at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance
  Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile, Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 213-222, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808601
• 1985 Hemi-cube form factors, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Michael F. Cohen
  Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg, The hemi-cube, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 31-40, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325171
• 1988 Progressive refinement radiosity, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Michael F. Cohen
  Michael F. Cohen, Shenchang Eric Chen, John R. Wallace, Donald P. Greenberg, A progressive refinement approach to fast radiosity image generation, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378487
• 1999 Image-based BRDF measurement, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Stephen R. Marschner, Kenneth E. Torrance
  S. R. Marschner, S. H. Westin, E. P. F. Lafortune, K. E. Torrance, D. P. Greenberg, Image-based BRDF measurement including human skin, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1999, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6809-7_13

• 1987 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Markus Gross

• 2001 Surface splatting (EWA point rendering), at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister
  Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, Markus Gross, Surface splatting, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 371-378, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383300

• 2021 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Leonidas J. Guibas

• 1985 Quad-edge data structure (Guibas-Stolfi), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Jorge Stolfi
  Leonidas Guibas, Jorge Stolfi, Primitives for the manipulation of general subdivisions and the computation of Voronoi, ACM Transactions on Graphics 4(2), pp. 74-123, 1985, doi:10.1145/282918.282923
• 1995 Multiple importance sampling, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Eric Veach
  Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas, Optimally combining sampling techniques for Monte Carlo rendering, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 419-428, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218498
• 1997 Metropolis light transport, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Eric Veach
  Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas, Metropolis light transport, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 65-76, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258775

• 2025 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Pat Hanrahan

• 1988 Volume rendering, at Pixar, with Robert A. Drebin, Loren Carpenter
  Robert A. Drebin, Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Volume rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 65-74, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378484
• 1990 RenderMan Shading Language, at Pixar, with Jim Lawson
  Pat Hanrahan, Jim Lawson, A language for shading and lighting calculations, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 289-298, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97911
• 1993 Subsurface scattering from layered surfaces, at Princeton University, with Wolfgang Krueger
  Pat Hanrahan, Wolfgang Krueger, Reflection from layered surfaces due to subsurface scattering, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166139
• 1996 Light field rendering, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Marc Levoy
  Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan, Light field rendering, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 31-42, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237199
• 2001 Spherical-harmonic irradiance environment maps, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Ravi Ramamoorthi
  Ravi Ramamoorthi, Pat Hanrahan, An efficient representation for irradiance environment maps, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 497-500, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383317
• 2004 Brook for GPUs (GPU stream programming), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  Ian Buck, Theresa Foley, Daniel Horn, Jeremy Sugerman, Kayvon Fatahalian, Mike Houston, Pat Hanrahan, Brook for GPUs, ACM Transactions on Graphics 23(3), pp. 777-786, 2004, doi:10.1145/1015706.1015800

• 1993 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2003 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award
• 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award

Leon D. Harmon

• 1969 Picture processing by computer, at Bell Labs, with Kenneth C. Knowlton
  Leon D. Harmon, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Picture Processing by Computer, Science 164(3875), pp. 19-29, 1969, doi:10.1126/science.164.3875.19

Paul S. Heckbert

• 1982 Median-cut color quantization
  Paul Heckbert, Color image quantization for frame buffer display, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 16(3), pp. 297-307, 1982, doi:10.1145/965145.801294
• 1986 Survey of texture mapping, at Pixar
  Paul S. Heckbert, Survey of Texture Mapping, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 6(11), pp. 56-67, 1986, doi:10.1109/MCG.1986.276672
• 1997 Quadric error metric simplification, at Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science, with Michael Garland
  Michael Garland, Paul S. Heckbert, Surface simplification using quadric error metrics, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 209-216, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258849

Greg Hermanovic

• 1987 PRISMS procedural graphics application, at SideFX (Side Effects Software), with Kim Davidson
  SideFX, About SideFX: Davidson and Hermanovic created Side Effects Software and released PRISMS in 1987

Aaron Hertzmann

• 1998 Painterly rendering with curved strokes, at New York University (Media Research Lab)
  Aaron Hertzmann, Painterly rendering with curved brush strokes of multiple sizes, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 453-460, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280951

• 2024 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Brian P. Von Herzen

• 1984 Ray tracing volume densities, at Caltech, Computer Science, with James T. Kajiya
  James T. Kajiya, Brian P Von Herzen, Ray tracing volume densities, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808594

Jessica K. Hodgins

• 1995 Animating human athletics (physics-based control), at Georgia Institute of Technology, with James F. O'Brien
  Jessica K. Hodgins, Wayne L. Wooten, David C. Brogan, James F. O'Brien, Animating human athletics, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 71-78, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218414
• 2002 Interactive avatar control from motion-capture data, at Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science
  Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard, Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 491-500, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566607

• 2010 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2017 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Gary W. Hodgman

• 1974 Sutherland-Hodgman reentrant polygon clipping, at Evans & Sutherland, with Ivan E. Sutherland
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Gary W. Hodgman, Reentrant polygon clipping, Communications of the ACM 17(1), pp. 32-42, 1974, doi:10.1145/360767.360802

Dan Hoey

• 1975 Closest-point problems (Voronoi diagrams in O(n log n)), at Yale University, Computer Science, with Michael Ian Shamos
  Michael Ian Shamos, Dan Hoey, Closest-point problems, 16th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp. 151-162, 1975, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1975.8

Hugues Hoppe

• 1992 Surface reconstruction from unorganized points, at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, with Tony DeRose
  Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John McDonald, Werner Stuetzle, Surface reconstruction from unorganized points, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 71-78, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134011
• 1993 Mesh optimization, at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, with Tony DeRose
  Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John McDonald, Werner Stuetzle, Mesh optimization, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 19-26, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166119
• 1996 Progressive meshes, at Microsoft Research
  Hugues Hoppe, Progressive meshes, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 99-108, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237216
• 2006 Poisson surface reconstruction, at Microsoft Research
  Kazhdan, M., Bolitho, M. and Hoppe, H., Poisson surface reconstruction, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2006

• 2004 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Jensen Huang

• 1993 Co-founded NVIDIA, at NVIDIA, with Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1993, 'Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem'

Greg Humphreys

• 2010 Physically Based Rendering (pbrt, 2nd edition shown), with Matt Pharr
  Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Introduction, Physically Based Rendering, pp. 1-52, 2010, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-375079-2.50001-9

Wenzel Jakob

• 2019 Mitsuba 2 retargetable (differentiable) renderer, at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
  Merlin Nimier-David, Delio Vicini, Tizian Zeltner, Wenzel Jakob, Mitsuba 2, ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(6), pp. 1-17, 2019, doi:10.1145/3355089.3356498

Henrik Wann Jensen

• 1996 Photon mapping, at Technical University of Denmark
  Henrik Wann Jensen, Global Illumination using Photon Maps, Eurographics, pp. 21-30, 1996, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-7484-5_3
• 2001 Visual simulation of smoke, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Ronald Fedkiw, Jos Stam
  Ronald Fedkiw, Jos Stam, Henrik Wann Jensen, Visual simulation of smoke, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 15-22, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383260
• 2001 Practical subsurface light transport (dipole BSSRDF), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan
  Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan, A practical model for subsurface light transport, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 511-518, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383319

Tom Jermoluk

• 1988 High-performance polygon rendering (SGI GTX), at Silicon Graphics (SGI), with Kurt Akeley
  Kurt Akeley, Tom Jermoluk, High-performance polygon rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 239-246, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378516

James T. Kajiya

• 1984 Ray tracing volume densities, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Brian P. Von Herzen
  James T. Kajiya, Brian P Von Herzen, Ray tracing volume densities, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808594
• 1986 The rendering equation (path tracing), at Caltech, Computer Science
  James T. Kajiya, The rendering equation, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 143-150, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15902
• 1989 Kajiya-Kay fur rendering, at Caltech, Computer Science
  J. T. Kajiya, T. L. Kay, Rendering fur with three dimensional textures, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 271-280, 1989, doi:10.1145/74333.74361

• 1991 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2011 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Michael Kass

• 1988 Snakes: active contour models, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos
  Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, International Journal of Computer Vision 1(4), pp. 321-331, 1988, doi:10.1007/BF00133570
• 1988 Spacetime constraints, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Andrew Witkin
  Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass, Spacetime constraints, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 159-168, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378507
• 1990 Rapid, stable fluid dynamics (height-field water), at Apple Computer (Advanced Technology Group), with Gavin Miller
  Michael Kass, Gavin Miller, Rapid, stable fluid dynamics for computer graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 49-57, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97884
• 1998 Subdivision surfaces in character animation, at Pixar, with Tony DeRose
  Tony DeRose, Michael Kass, Tien Truong, Subdivision surfaces in character animation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 85-94, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280826

• 2009 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Yoichiro Kawaguchi

• 1982 Growth model: morphological study of the form of nature
  Yoichiro Kawaguchi, A morphological study of the form of nature, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 16(3), pp. 223-232, 1982, doi:10.1145/965145.801284

Michael Kazhdan

• 2006 Poisson surface reconstruction, at Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science, with Matthew Bolitho
  Michael Kazhdan, Matthew Bolitho, Hugues Hoppe, Poisson surface reconstruction, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006, doi:10.2312/SGP/SGP06/061-070

Bernhard Kerbl

• 2023 3D Gaussian splatting, at INRIA, with George Drettakis
  Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkuehler, George Drettakis, 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(4), pp. 1-14, 2023, doi:10.1145/3592433

Lutz Kettner

• 1996 The CGAL kernel, at CGAL Project (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library), with Andreas Fabri, Stefan Schirra
  Andreas Fabri, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra, Sven Schönherr, The CGAL kernel: a basis for geometric computation, Applied Computational Geometry (WACG 1996), LNCS 1148, 1996, doi:10.1007/BFb0014496

David B. Kirk

• 2013 Programming Massively Parallel Processors (CUDA textbook, 2nd edition shown), at NVIDIA
  David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Parallel Programming and Computational Thinking, Programming Massively Parallel Processors, pp. 281-295, 2013, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-415992-1.00013-4

• 2002 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Kenneth C. Knowlton

• 1964 BEFLIX animated-movie language, at Bell Labs
  Kenneth C. Knowlton, A computer technique for producing animated movies, Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference on XX - AFIPS '64 (Spring), pp. 67, 1964, doi:10.1145/1464122.1464130
• 1969 Picture processing by computer, at Bell Labs, with Leon D. Harmon
  Leon D. Harmon, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Picture Processing by Computer, Science 164(3875), pp. 19-29, 1969, doi:10.1126/science.164.3875.19

Lucas Kovar

• 2002 Motion graphs, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Computer Sciences, with Michael Gleicher
  Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher, Frédéric Pighin, Motion graphs, SIGGRAPH 2002 (ACM TOG 21(3)), doi:10.1145/566570.566605

Wolfgang Krueger

• 1993 Subsurface scattering from layered surfaces, at Princeton University, with Pat Hanrahan
  Pat Hanrahan, Wolfgang Krueger, Reflection from layered surfaces due to subsurface scattering, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166139

Fred N. Krull

• 1994 History: origin of computer graphics at General Motors (DAC-1), at General Motors Research Laboratories
  F.N. Krull, The origin of computer graphics within General Motors, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 16(3), pp. 40, 1994, doi:10.1109/mahc.1994.298419

John Lasseter

• 1987 Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D, at Pixar
  John Lasseter, Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 35-44, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37407

Jim Lawson

• 1990 RenderMan Shading Language, at Pixar, with Pat Hanrahan
  Pat Hanrahan, Jim Lawson, A language for shading and lighting calculations, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 289-298, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97911

Marc Levoy

• 1988 Direct volume rendering of surfaces, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science
  M. Levoy, Display of surfaces from volume data, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 8(3), pp. 29-37, 1988, doi:10.1109/38.511
• 1996 Light field rendering, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Pat Hanrahan
  Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan, Light field rendering, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 31-42, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237199
• 1996 Volumetric range-image merging (VRIP), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Brian Curless
  Brian Curless, Marc Levoy, A volumetric method for building complex models from range images, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 303-312, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237269
• 2000 Digital Michelangelo project, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  Marc Levoy, Jeremy Ginsberg, Jonathan Shade, Duane Fulk, Kari Pulli, Brian Curless, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, David Koller, Lucas Pereira, Matt Ginzton, Sean Anderson, James Davis, The digital Michelangelo project, Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '00, pp. 131-144, 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.344849
• 2000 Fast texture synthesis (tree-structured vector quantization), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Li-Yi Wei
  Li-Yi Wei, Marc Levoy, Fast texture synthesis using tree-structured vector quantization, SIGGRAPH 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.345009
• 2000 QSplat multiresolution point rendering, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Szymon Rusinkiewicz
  Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Marc Levoy, QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes, SIGGRAPH 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.344940

• 1996 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Tzu-Mao Li

• 2018 Differentiable Monte Carlo ray tracing (edge sampling), at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Frédo Durand
  Tzu-Mao Li, Miika Aittala, Frédo Durand, Jaakko Lehtinen, Differentiable Monte Carlo ray tracing through edge sampling, ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(6), pp. 1-11, 2018, doi:10.1145/3272127.3275109

Ming C. Lin

• 1996 OBBTree collision detection, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with Dinesh Manocha
  S. Gottschalk, M. C. Lin, D. Manocha, OBBTree, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 171-180, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237244

Aristid Lindenmayer

• 1968 L-systems
  Aristid Lindenmayer, Mathematical models for cellular interactions in development I. Filaments with one-sided inputs, Journal of Theoretical Biology 18(3), pp. 280-299, 1968, doi:10.1016/0022-5193(68)90079-9
• 1990 The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, with Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
  Prusinkiewicz, P. and Lindenmayer, A., The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, Springer-Verlag, 1990 (authors' electronic edition)

Erik Lindholm

• 2008 NVIDIA Tesla unified graphics and compute architecture, at NVIDIA, with John Nickolls
  Erik Lindholm, John Nickolls, Stuart Oberman, John Montrym, NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture, IEEE Micro 28(2), pp. 39-55, 2008, doi:10.1109/mm.2008.31

Charles Loop

• 1987 Loop subdivision surfaces, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Loop, C., Smooth subdivision surfaces based on triangles, MS thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 1987 (Microsoft Research publication page; returned HTTP 403 to an automated check)
• 2005 Resolution-independent GPU curve rendering, at Microsoft Research, with James F. Blinn
  Charles Loop, Jim Blinn, Resolution independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3), pp. 1000-1009, 2005, doi:10.1145/1073204.1073303

Tom Lyche

• 1980 Oslo algorithm (discrete B-splines, knot insertion), at University of Oslo, with Elaine Cohen, Richard F. Riesenfeld
  Elaine Cohen, Tom Lyche, Richard Riesenfeld, Discrete B-splines and subdivision techniques in computer-aided geometric design and computer graphics, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 14(2), pp. 87-111, 1980, doi:10.1016/0146-664X(80)90040-4

Chris Malachowsky

• 1993 Co-founded NVIDIA, at NVIDIA, with Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1993, 'Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem'

Jitendra Malik

• 1996 Facade: image-based modeling of architecture, at UC Berkeley, EECS, with Paul E. Debevec
  Paul E. Debevec, Camillo J. Taylor, Jitendra Malik, Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 11-20, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237191
• 1997 HDR radiance maps from photographs, at UC Berkeley, EECS, with Paul E. Debevec
  Paul E. Debevec, Jitendra Malik, Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 369-378, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258884

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

• 1967 How long is the coast of Britain? (fractal dimension), at IBM (Research and Systems)
  Benoit Mandelbrot, How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension, Science 156(3775), pp. 636-638, 1967, doi:10.1126/science.156.3775.636

Dinesh Manocha

• 1996 OBBTree collision detection, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with Ming C. Lin
  S. Gottschalk, M. C. Lin, D. Manocha, OBBTree, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 171-180, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237244

Stephen R. Marschner

• 1999 Image-based BRDF measurement, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg
  S. R. Marschner, S. H. Westin, E. P. F. Lafortune, K. E. Torrance, D. P. Greenberg, Image-based BRDF measurement including human skin, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1999, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6809-7_13
• 2001 Practical subsurface light transport (dipole BSSRDF), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Henrik Wann Jensen, Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan
  Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan, A practical model for subsurface light transport, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 511-518, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383319
• 2002 Particle level set for water surfaces, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Douglas Enright, Ronald Fedkiw
  Douglas Enright, Stephen Marschner, Ronald Fedkiw, Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces, ACM TOG 21(3), 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566645
• 2003 Hair scattering model, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Henrik Wann Jensen
  Stephen R. Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano, Steve Worley, Pat Hanrahan, Light scattering from human hair fibers, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers, pp. 780-791, 2003, doi:10.1145/1201775.882345

• 2015 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Wojciech Matusik

• 2003 MERL BRDF database (data-driven reflectance model), at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, with Hanspeter Pfister, Matthew Brand
  Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Matt Brand, Leonard McMillan, A data-driven reflectance model, ACM TOG 22(3), pp. 759-769, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882343

Nelson L. Max

• 1986 Atmospheric illumination and shadows (light shafts), at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Nelson L. Max, Atmospheric illumination and shadows, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 117-124, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15899

• 2007 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Ben Mildenhall

• 2020 NeRF: neural radiance fields, at UC Berkeley, EECS
  Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T. Barron, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Ren Ng, NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 405-421, 2020, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58452-8_24

Gavin Miller

• 1990 Rapid, stable fluid dynamics (height-field water), at Apple Computer (Advanced Technology Group), with Michael Kass
  Michael Kass, Gavin Miller, Rapid, stable fluid dynamics for computer graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 49-57, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97884

Vera Molnár

• 1975 Toward aesthetic guidelines for paintings with the aid of a computer
  Vera Molnar, Toward Aesthetic Guidelines for Paintings with the Aid of a Computer, Leonardo 8(3), pp. 185, 1975, doi:10.2307/1573236

• 2022 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Pascal Müller

• 2001 Procedural modeling of cities, at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Yoav I. H. Parish
  Yoav I. H. Parish, Pascal Müller, Procedural modeling of cities, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383292
• 2006 Procedural modeling of buildings (CGA shape), at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Peter Wonka
  Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka, Simon Haegler, Andreas Ulmer, Luc Van Gool, Procedural modeling of buildings, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141931

Thomas Müller

• 2022 Instant neural graphics primitives (multiresolution hash encoding), at NVIDIA Research
  Thomas Müller, Alex Evans, Christoph Schied, Alexander Keller, Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding, ACM Transactions on Graphics 41(4), pp. 1-15, 2022, doi:10.1145/3528223.3530127

Ken Museth

• 2013 VDB sparse volumes (OpenVDB), at DreamWorks Animation
  Ken Museth, VDB: high-resolution sparse volumes with dynamic topology, ACM TOG 32(3), 2013, doi:10.1145/2487228.2487235

F. Kenton Musgrave

• 1989 Eroded fractal terrains, at Yale University
  F. K. Musgrave, C. E. Kolb, R. S. Mace, The synthesis and rendering of eroded fractal terrains, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 41-50, 1989, doi:10.1145/74333.74337

Eadweard Muybridge

• 1878 The Horse in Motion (sequential photographs)
  Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Theodore H. Myer

• 1968 Wheel of reincarnation (display processor design), at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), with Ivan E. Sutherland
  T. H. Myer, I. E. Sutherland, On the design of display processors, Communications of the ACM 11(6), pp. 410-414, 1968, doi:10.1145/363347.363368

Eihachiro Nakamae

• 1985 Radiosity-style interreflection with shadows, at Hiroshima University, with Tomoyuki Nishita
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Eihachiro Nakamae, Continuous tone representation of three-dimensional objects taking account of shadows and interreflection, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 23-30, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325169

Frieder Nake

• 2005 Computer art (recollection, Creativity and Cognition 2005), at University of Bremen
  Frieder Nake, Computer art, Proceedings of the 5th conference on Creativity & cognition - C&C '05, pp. 54, 2005, doi:10.1145/1056224.1056234

• 2025 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Bruce F. Naylor

• 1980 BSP trees for visible surfaces, at University of Texas at Dallas, with Henry Fuchs
  Henry Fuchs, Zvi M. Kedem, Bruce F. Naylor, On visible surface generation by a priori tree structures, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), pp. 124-133, 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807481

Shawn Neely

• 1992 Feature-based image metamorphosis (morphing), at Pacific Data Images, with Thaddeus Beier
  Thaddeus Beier, Shawn Neely, Feature-based image metamorphosis, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 35-42, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134003

Martin E. Newell

• 1972 Newell-Newell-Sancha depth-sort (painter's) algorithm, at University of Cambridge, CAD Group
  M. E. Newell, R. G. Newell, T. L. Sancha, A solution to the hidden surface problem, Proceedings of the ACM annual conference on - ACM'72 1, pp. 443, 1972, doi:10.1145/800193.569954
• 1974 Utah teapot data set, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Computer History Museum, catalog X398.84, The Utah Teapot (object record: data created and input by Martin Newell, 1974, University of Utah)
• 1976 Texture and reflection (environment) mapping, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with James F. Blinn
  James F. Blinn, Martin E. Newell, Texture and reflection in computer generated images, Communications of the ACM 19(10), pp. 542-547, 1976, doi:10.1145/360349.360353

William M. Newman

• 1973 Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with Sproull), at Xerox PARC, with Robert F. Sproull
  Dick Land, William M. Newman, Robert F. Sproull, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 8(4), pp. 351, 1975, doi:10.2307/1573035 (book 1973; DOI is a 1975 review in Leonardo)

John Nickolls

• 2008 NVIDIA Tesla unified graphics and compute architecture, at NVIDIA, with Erik Lindholm
  Erik Lindholm, John Nickolls, Stuart Oberman, John Montrym, NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture, IEEE Micro 28(2), pp. 39-55, 2008, doi:10.1109/mm.2008.31

Fred E. Nicodemus

• 1977 Definition of the BRDF (NBS Monograph 160), at National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now NIST
  F. E. Nicodemus, J. C. Richmond, J. J. Hsia, I. W. Ginsberg, T. Limperis, Geometrical considerations and nomenclature for reflectance, NBS Monograph 160, 1977, doi:10.6028/NBS.MONO.160

Tomoyuki Nishita

• 1985 Radiosity-style interreflection with shadows, at Hiroshima University, with Eihachiro Nakamae
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Eihachiro Nakamae, Continuous tone representation of three-dimensional objects taking account of shadows and interreflection, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 23-30, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325169
• 1993 Atmospheric scattering for Earth views, at Hiroshima University, with Eihachiro Nakamae
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Takao Sirai, Katsumi Tadamura, Eihachiro Nakamae, Display of the earth taking into account atmospheric scattering, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 175-182, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166140

• 2005 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

A. Michael Noll

• 1967 Displaying n-dimensional hyperobjects, at Bell Labs
  A. Michael Noll, A computer technique for displaying n -dimensional hyperobjects, Communications of the ACM 10(8), pp. 469-473, 1967, doi:10.1145/363534.363544
• 1967 The digital computer as a creative medium, at Bell Labs
  A. Michael Noll, The digital computer as a creative medium, IEEE Spectrum 4(10), pp. 89-95, 1967, doi:10.1109/MSPEC.1967.5217127

James F. O'Brien

• 1995 Animating human athletics, at Georgia Institute of Technology, with Jessica K. Hodgins
  Jessica K. Hodgins, Wayne L. Wooten, David C. Brogan, James F. O'Brien, Animating human athletics, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 71-78, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218414

Stanley Osher

• 1988 Level set method, at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics, with James A. Sethian
  Stanley Osher, James A. Sethian, Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations, Journal of Computational Physics 79(1), pp. 12-49, 1988, doi:10.1016/0021-9991(88)90002-2

Yoav I. H. Parish

• 2001 Procedural modeling of cities, at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Pascal Müller
  Yoav I. H. Parish, Pascal Müller, Procedural modeling of cities, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383292

Frederick I. Parke

• 1972 Computer-generated facial animation, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Frederick I. Parke, Computer generated animation of faces, Proceedings of the ACM annual conference on - ACM'72 1, pp. 451, 1972, doi:10.1145/800193.569955

Ken Perlin

• 1985 Perlin noise (an image synthesizer), at New York University (Media Research Lab)
  Ken Perlin, An image synthesizer, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 287-296, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325247
• 2002 Improved noise, at New York University (Media Research Lab)
  Ken Perlin, Improving noise, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 681-682, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566636

• 2008 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Hanspeter Pfister

• 2001 Surface splatting (EWA point rendering), at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, with Markus Gross, Matthias Zwicker
  Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, Markus Gross, Surface splatting, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 371-378, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383300
• 2003 MERL BRDF database (data-driven reflectance model), at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, with Matthew Brand, Wojciech Matusik
  Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Matt Brand, Leonard McMillan, A data-driven reflectance model, ACM TOG 22(3), pp. 759-769, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882343

Matt Pharr

• 2010 Physically Based Rendering (pbrt, 2nd edition shown), with Greg Humphreys
  Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Introduction, Physically Based Rendering, pp. 1-52, 2010, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-375079-2.50001-9

Bui Tuong Phong

• 1975 Phong reflection model and Phong shading, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Bui Tuong Phong, Illumination for computer generated pictures, Communications of the ACM 18(6), pp. 311-317, 1975, doi:10.1145/360825.360839

Jean Ponce

• 2010 Patch-based multi-view stereo (PMVS), with Yasutaka Furukawa
  Yasutaka Furukawa, Jean Ponce, Accurate, dense, and robust multiview stereopsis, IEEE TPAMI 32(8), 2010, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2009.161

Thomas Porter

• 1984 Alpha compositing (Porter-Duff operators), at Lucasfilm Computer Division, with Tom Duff
  Thomas Porter, Tom Duff, Compositing digital images, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 253-259, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808606
• 1984 Distributed ray tracing, at Lucasfilm Computer Division, with Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter
  Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter, Distributed ray tracing, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 137-145, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808590

Jeffrey L. Posdamer

• 1982 Structured light (space-encoded projected beams), with Martin D. Altschuler
  J. L. Posdamer, M. D. Altschuler, Surface measurement by space-encoded projected beam systems, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 18(1), 1982, doi:10.1016/0146-664X(82)90096-X

John Poulton

• 1985 Pixel-Planes rendering hardware, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with Henry Fuchs
  Henry Fuchs, Jack Goldfeather, Jeff P. Hultquist, Susan Spach, John D. Austin, Frederick P. Brooks, John G. Eyles, John Poulton, Fast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and imgage enhancements in pixel-planes, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 111-120, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325205

Franco P. Preparata

• 1985 Computational Geometry: An Introduction (textbook), at Yale University, Computer Science, with Michael Ian Shamos
  Franco P. Preparata, Michael Ian Shamos, Computational Geometry: An Introduction, Springer, 1985, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1098-6

Curtis Priem

• 1993 Co-founded NVIDIA, at NVIDIA, with Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1993, 'Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem'

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

• 1988 L-system models of herbaceous plants, at University of Regina, with Aristid Lindenmayer
  Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer, James Hanan, Development models of herbaceous plants for computer imagery purposes, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 141-150, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378503
• 1990 The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, at University of Regina, with Aristid Lindenmayer
  Prusinkiewicz, P. and Lindenmayer, A., The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, Springer-Verlag, 1990 (authors' electronic edition)

• 1997 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Ravi Ramamoorthi

• 2001 Spherical-harmonic irradiance environment maps, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Pat Hanrahan
  Ravi Ramamoorthi, Pat Hanrahan, An efficient representation for irradiance environment maps, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 497-500, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383317
• 2001 Signal-processing framework for inverse rendering, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Pat Hanrahan
  Ravi Ramamoorthi, Pat Hanrahan, A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 117-128, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383271

William T. Reeves

• 1983 Particle systems, at Lucasfilm Computer Division
  W. T. Reeves, Particle Systems: a Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2(2), pp. 91-108, 1983, doi:10.1145/357318.357320
• 1986 Ocean waves model, at Pixar, with Alain Fournier
  Alain Fournier, William T. Reeves, A simple model of ocean waves, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15894
• 1987 Percentage-closer filtering for shadow maps, at Pixar, with David H. Salesin, Robert L. Cook
  William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin, Robert L. Cook, Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 283-291, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37435

Aristides A. G. Requicha

• 1977 PADL and geometric modeling of mechanical parts (CSG), at University of Rochester, Production Automation Project, with Herbert B. Voelcker
  H. B. Voelcker, A. A. G. Requicha, Geometric modeling of mechanical parts and processes, Computer 10(12), pp. 48-57, 1977, doi:10.1109/C-M.1977.217601
• 1980 Representations for rigid solids (solid modeling theory, CSG), at University of Rochester, Production Automation Project
  Aristides A. G. Requicha, Representations for rigid solids: theory, methods, and systems, ACM Computing Surveys 12(4), pp. 437-464, 1980, doi:10.1145/356827.356833

Craig W. Reynolds

• 1987 Boids (flocks, herds and schools), at Symbolics Graphics Division
  Craig W. Reynolds, Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 25-34, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37406

Richard F. Riesenfeld

• 1974 B-spline curves and surfaces for CAD, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with William J. Gordon
  William J. Gordon, Richard F. Riesenfeld, B-SPLINE CURVES AND SURFACES, Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 95-126, 1974, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-079050-0.50011-4
• 1980 Oslo algorithm (discrete B-splines, knot insertion), at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Elaine Cohen, Tom Lyche
  Elaine Cohen, Tom Lyche, Richard Riesenfeld, Discrete B-splines and subdivision techniques in computer-aided geometric design and computer graphics, Computer Graphics and Image Processing 14(2), pp. 87-111, 1980, doi:10.1016/0146-664X(80)90040-4

Lawrence G. Roberts

• 1963 Machine perception of 3D solids (hidden lines, homogeneous coordinates), at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (TX-2)
  Roberts, L. G., Machine perception of three-dimensional solids, PhD thesis, MIT (Lincoln Laboratory TR 315), 1963

Raphael Rom

• 1974 Catmull-Rom splines, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Edwin Catmull
  Edwin Catmull, Raphael Rom, A CLASS OF LOCAL INTERPOLATING SPLINES, Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 317-326, 1974, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-079050-0.50020-5

Holly Rushmeier

• 1987 Zonal method for participating media, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Kenneth E. Torrance
  Holly E. Rushmeier, Kenneth E. Torrance, The zonal method for calculating light intensities in the presence of a participating medium, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 293-302, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37436

• 2013 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Szymon Rusinkiewicz

• 2000 QSplat multiresolution point rendering, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Marc Levoy
  Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Marc Levoy, QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes, SIGGRAPH 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.344940

Malcolm A. Sabin

• 1978 Doo-Sabin subdivision, with Daniel Doo
  D. Doo, M. Sabin, Behaviour of recursive division surfaces near extraordinary points, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 356-360, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90111-2

Takafumi Saito

• 1990 Comprehensible rendering (G-buffers), at NTT Human Interface Laboratories, with Tokiichiro Takahashi
  Takafumi Saito, Tokiichiro Takahashi, Comprehensible rendering of 3-D shapes, SIGGRAPH 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97901

David H. Salesin

• 1987 Percentage-closer filtering for shadow maps, at Pixar, with William T. Reeves, Robert L. Cook
  William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin, Robert L. Cook, Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 283-291, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37435
• 1994 Computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration, at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering
  Georges Winkenbach, David H. Salesin, Computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 91-100, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192184

• 2000 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Daniel J. Sandin

• 1993 CAVE projection-based virtual reality, at University of Illinois Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, with Carolina Cruz-Neira, Thomas A. DeFanti
  Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 135-142, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166134

Stefan Schirra

• 1996 The CGAL kernel, at CGAL Project (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library), with Andreas Fabri, Lutz Kettner
  Andreas Fabri, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra, Sven Schönherr, The CGAL kernel: a basis for geometric computation, Applied Computational Geometry (WACG 1996), LNCS 1148, 1996, doi:10.1007/BFb0014496

Peter Schröder

• 1995 Spherical wavelets, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Wim Sweldens
  Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Spherical wavelets, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 161-172, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218439
• 1996 Interpolating subdivision (modified butterfly), at Caltech, Computer Science, with Denis Zorin, Wim Sweldens
  Denis Zorin, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Interpolating Subdivision for meshes with arbitrary topology, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 189-192, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237254

• 2003 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Robert A. Schumacker

• 1969 Computer-generated imagery for visual flight simulation (GE study), at General Electric (Electronics Laboratory)
  Robert A. Schumacker, Brigitta Brand, Maurice G. Gilliland, Werner H. Sharp, STUDY FOR APPLYING COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES TO VISUAL SIMULATION, 1969, doi:10.21236/ad0700375
• 1974 Survey: ten hidden-surface algorithms, at Evans & Sutherland, with Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, Robert A. Schumacker, A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1), pp. 1-55, 1974, doi:10.1145/356625.356626

Lillian F. Schwartz

• 1979 Film-making with computer, at Bell Labs
  Lillian F. Schwartz, Charles B. Rubinstein, Film-making with Computer Adapting a New Technology for Art, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 4(4), pp. 298-305, 1979, doi:10.1179/isr.1979.4.4.298
• undated Pixillation (film), at Bell Labs, with Kenneth C. Knowlton
  ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, person page Lillian Schwartz: Pixillation (Bell Laboratories), screened SIGGRAPH 1979; production year not stated on the page

• 2015 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award

Thomas W. Sederberg

• 1986 Free-form deformation, at Brigham Young University
  Thomas W. Sederberg, Scott R. Parry, Free-form deformation of solid geometric models, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 151-160, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15903
• 2003 T-splines, at Brigham Young University
  Thomas W. Sederberg, Jianmin Zheng, Almaz Bakenov, Ahmad Nasri, T-splines and T-NURCCs, ACM Transactions on Graphics 22(3), pp. 477-484, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882295

• 2006 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Mark Segal

• 1992 OpenGL 1.0 specification, at Silicon Graphics (SGI), with Kurt Akeley
  Segal, M. and Akeley, K., The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification (Version 1.0), Silicon Graphics, Inc., copyright 1992-1994 (document dated 1 July 1994)

Hans-Peter Seidel

• 2004 Laplacian surface editing, at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, with Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Daniel Cohen-Or
  O. Sorkine, D. Cohen-Or, Y. Lipman, M. Alexa, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Laplacian surface editing, Proceedings of the 2004 Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Geometry processing, pp. 175-184, 2004, doi:10.1145/1057432.1057456

Steven M. Seitz

• 2006 Photo Tourism (structure from motion on photo collections), at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, with Noah Snavely
  Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski, Photo tourism: exploring photo collections in 3D, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141964

James A. Sethian

• 1988 Level set method, at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics, with Stanley Osher
  Stanley Osher, James A. Sethian, Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations, Journal of Computational Physics 79(1), pp. 12-49, 1988, doi:10.1016/0021-9991(88)90002-2

James Shaffer

• 1968 Art, computers and mathematics, at Ohio State University (CGRG, later ACCAD), with Charles A. Csuri
  Charles Csuri, James Shaffer, Art, computers and mathematics, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part II on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part II), pp. 1293, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476706.1476759

Michael Ian Shamos

• 1975 Closest-point problems (Voronoi diagrams in O(n log n)), at Yale University, Computer Science, with Dan Hoey
  Michael Ian Shamos, Dan Hoey, Closest-point problems, 16th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp. 151-162, 1975, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1975.8
• 1978 Computational Geometry (PhD thesis), at Yale University, Computer Science
  Michael Ian Shamos, Computational Geometry, PhD thesis, Yale University, 1978
• 1985 Computational Geometry: An Introduction (textbook), at Yale University, Computer Science, with Franco P. Preparata
  Franco P. Preparata, Michael Ian Shamos, Computational Geometry: An Introduction, Springer, 1985, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1098-6

Richard Shoup

• 2001 SuperPaint frame buffer system (recollection), at Xerox PARC
  R. Shoup, SuperPaint: an early frame buffer graphics system, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23(2), pp. 32-37, 2001, doi:10.1109/85.929909

• 1990 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Alvy Ray Smith

• 1978 HSV color model (color gamut transform pairs), at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Alvy Ray Smith, Color gamut transform pairs, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 12-19, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807361
• 1979 Tint fill, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Alvy Ray Smith, Tint fill, Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 276-283, 1979, doi:10.1145/800249.807456
• 1980 Two-pass scanline image warping, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, with Edwin Catmull
  Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, 3-D transformations of images in scanline order, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), pp. 279-285, 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807505
• 1984 Graftals: plants, fractals and formal languages, at Lucasfilm Computer Division
  Alvy Ray Smith, Plants, fractals, and formal languages, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 1-10, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808571
• 2001 History of digital paint systems
  A.R. Smith, Digital paint systems: an anecdotal and historical overview, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23(2), pp. 4-30, 2001, doi:10.1109/85.929908

• 1990 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Noah Snavely

• 2006 Photo Tourism (structure from motion on photo collections), at University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, with Steven M. Seitz
  Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski, Photo tourism: exploring photo collections in 3D, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141964

Olga Sorkine-Hornung

• 2004 Laplacian surface editing, at Tel Aviv University, with Daniel Cohen-Or, Hans-Peter Seidel
  O. Sorkine, D. Cohen-Or, Y. Lipman, M. Alexa, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Laplacian surface editing, Proceedings of the 2004 Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Geometry processing, pp. 175-184, 2004, doi:10.1145/1057432.1057456

Robert F. Sproull

• 1973 Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with Newman), at Xerox PARC, with William M. Newman
  Dick Land, William M. Newman, Robert F. Sproull, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 8(4), pp. 351, 1975, doi:10.2307/1573035 (book 1973; DOI is a 1975 review in Leonardo)
• 1974 Survey: ten hidden-surface algorithms, at Xerox PARC, with Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert A. Schumacker
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, Robert A. Schumacker, A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1), pp. 1-55, 1974, doi:10.1145/356625.356626
• 1979 Raster graphics for interactive programming environments, at Xerox PARC
  Robert F. Sproull, Raster graphics for interactive programming environments, Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 83-93, 1979, doi:10.1145/800249.807428

Jos Stam

• 1998 Exact evaluation of Catmull-Clark surfaces, at Alias|Wavefront
  Jos Stam, Exact evaluation of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces at arbitrary parameter values, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 395-404, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280945
• 1999 Stable fluids, at Alias|Wavefront
  Jos Stam, Stable fluids, Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '99, pp. 121-128, 1999, doi:10.1145/311535.311548
• 2001 Visual simulation of smoke, at Alias|Wavefront, with Ronald Fedkiw, Henrik Wann Jensen
  Ronald Fedkiw, Jos Stam, Henrik Wann Jensen, Visual simulation of smoke, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 15-22, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383260

• 2005 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Jorge Stolfi

• 1985 Quad-edge data structure (Guibas-Stolfi), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Leonidas J. Guibas
  Leonidas Guibas, Jorge Stolfi, Primitives for the manipulation of general subdivisions and the computation of Voronoi, ACM Transactions on Graphics 4(2), pp. 74-123, 1985, doi:10.1145/282918.282923

Ivan E. Sutherland

• 1963 Sketchpad (PhD thesis), at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (TX-2)
  Sutherland, I. E., Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, PhD thesis, MIT, January 1963; republished as University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-574, 2003
• 1963 Sketchpad (AFIPS paper), at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (TX-2)
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Sketchpad, Proceedings of the May 21-23, 1963, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '63 (Spring), pp. 329, 1963, doi:10.1145/1461551.1461591
• 1968 Wheel of reincarnation (display processor design), at Harvard University (Aiken Computation Laboratory), with Theodore H. Myer
  T. H. Myer, I. E. Sutherland, On the design of display processors, Communications of the ACM 11(6), pp. 410-414, 1968, doi:10.1145/363347.363368
• 1968 Head-mounted three-dimensional display, at Harvard University (Aiken Computation Laboratory)
  Ivan E. Sutherland, A head-mounted three dimensional display, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I), pp. 757, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476589.1476686
• 1969 Real-time color stereo displays, at Harvard University (Aiken Computation Laboratory)
  Richard I. Land, Ivan E. Sutherland, Real-Time, Color, Stereo, Computer Displays, Applied Optics 8(3), pp. 721, 1969, doi:10.1364/ao.8.000721
• 1970 Computer Displays (Scientific American), at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Computer Displays, Scientific American 222(6), pp. 56-81, 1970, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0670-56
• 1974 Sutherland-Hodgman reentrant polygon clipping, at University of Utah, Computer Science, with Gary W. Hodgman
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Gary W. Hodgman, Reentrant polygon clipping, Communications of the ACM 17(1), pp. 32-42, 1974, doi:10.1145/360767.360802
• 1974 Survey: ten hidden-surface algorithms, at Evans & Sutherland, with Robert F. Sproull, Robert A. Schumacker
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, Robert A. Schumacker, A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1), pp. 1-55, 1974, doi:10.1145/356625.356626
• 1981 VLSI raster update architecture, at Caltech, Computer Science, with Robert F. Sproull
  Satish Gupta, Robert F. Sproull, Ivan E. Sutherland, A VLSI architecture for updating raster-scan displays, Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '81, pp. 71-78, 1981, doi:10.1145/800224.806791

• 1983 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award
• 1988 ACM A.M. Turing Award

Wim Sweldens

• 1995 Spherical wavelets, at Bell Labs, with Peter Schröder
  Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Spherical wavelets, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 161-172, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218439

Richard Szeliski

• 1996 The Lumigraph, at Microsoft Research, with Michael F. Cohen
  Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen, The lumigraph, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 43-54, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237200
• 2006 Photo Tourism (structure from motion on photo collections), at Microsoft Research
  Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski, Photo tourism, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141964
• 2011 Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (textbook), at Microsoft Research
  Richard Szeliski, Computer Vision, Texts in Computer Science, 2011, doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-935-0

• 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Tokiichiro Takahashi

• 1990 Comprehensible rendering (G-buffers), at NTT Human Interface Laboratories, with Takafumi Saito
  Takafumi Saito, Tokiichiro Takahashi, Comprehensible rendering of 3-D shapes, SIGGRAPH 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97901

Demetri Terzopoulos

• 1987 Elastically deformable models, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Alan H. Barr
  Demetri Terzopoulos, John Platt, Alan Barr, Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 205-214, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37427
• 1988 Snakes: active contour models, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin
  Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, International Journal of Computer Vision 1(4), pp. 321-331, 1988, doi:10.1007/BF00133570
• 1994 Artificial fishes, at University of Toronto, Dynamic Graphics Project, with Xiaoyuan Tu
  Xiaoyuan Tu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Artificial fishes, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 43-50, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192170

Daniel Thalmann

• 1987 Synthetic actors: Rendez-vous à Montréal, at Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal, with Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, The Direction of Synthetic Actors in the Film Rendez-Vous a Montreal, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 7(12), pp. 9-19, 1987, doi:10.1109/MCG.1987.276934

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

• 1987 Synthetic actors: Rendez-vous à Montréal, at Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal, with Daniel Thalmann
  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, The Direction of Synthetic Actors in the Film Rendez-Vous a Montreal, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 7(12), pp. 9-19, 1987, doi:10.1109/MCG.1987.276934

Kenneth E. Torrance

• 1967 Torrance-Sparrow off-specular reflection
  K. E. Torrance, E. M. Sparrow, Theory for Off-Specular Reflection From Roughened Surfaces*, Journal of the Optical Society of America 57(9), pp. 1105, 1967, doi:10.1364/JOSA.57.001105
• 1982 Cook-Torrance reflectance model, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Robert L. Cook
  R. L. Cook, K. E. Torrance, A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 1(1), pp. 7-24, 1982, doi:10.1145/357290.357293
• 1984 Radiosity for computer graphics, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Cindy M. Goral, Donald P. Greenberg
  Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile, Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 213-222, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808601
• 1987 Zonal method for participating media, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Holly Rushmeier
  Holly E. Rushmeier, Kenneth E. Torrance, The zonal method for calculating light intensities in the presence of a participating medium, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 293-302, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37436
• 1999 Image-based BRDF measurement, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Stephen R. Marschner, Donald P. Greenberg
  S. R. Marschner, S. H. Westin, E. P. F. Lafortune, K. E. Torrance, D. P. Greenberg, Image-based BRDF measurement including human skin, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1999, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6809-7_13

• 1994 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Ben Trumbore

• 1997 Möller-Trumbore ray-triangle intersection, at Cornell Program of Computer Graphics, with Tomas Akenine-Möller
  Tomas Möller, Ben Trumbore, Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection, Journal of Graphics Tools 2(1), pp. 21-28, 1997, doi:10.1080/10867651.1997.10487468

Xiaoyuan Tu

• 1994 Artificial fishes, at University of Toronto, Dynamic Graphics Project, with Demetri Terzopoulos
  Xiaoyuan Tu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Artificial fishes, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 43-50, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192170

Greg Turk

• 1991 Reaction-diffusion textures, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science
  Greg Turk, Generating textures on arbitrary surfaces using reaction-diffusion, Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 289-298, 1991, doi:10.1145/122718.122749
• 1994 Zippered range-image meshes (Stanford bunny scans), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Marc Levoy
  Greg Turk, Marc Levoy, Zippered polygon meshes from range images, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 311-318, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192241

• 2012 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Eric Veach

• 1995 Multiple importance sampling, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Leonidas J. Guibas
  Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas, Optimally combining sampling techniques for Monte Carlo rendering, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 419-428, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218498
• 1997 Metropolis light transport, at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Leonidas J. Guibas
  Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas, Metropolis light transport, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 65-76, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258775
• 1997 Robust Monte Carlo light transport (thesis), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  Veach, E., Robust Monte Carlo methods for light transport simulation, PhD thesis, Stanford University, 1997

Herbert B. Voelcker

• 1977 PADL and geometric modeling of mechanical parts (CSG), at University of Rochester, Production Automation Project, with Aristides A. G. Requicha
  H. B. Voelcker, A. A. G. Requicha, Geometric modeling of mechanical parts and processes, Computer 10(12), pp. 48-57, 1977, doi:10.1109/C-M.1977.217601

Gregory J. Ward

• 1992 Ward anisotropic reflectance model, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Gregory J. Ward, Measuring and modeling anisotropic reflection, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 265-272, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134078
• 1994 RADIANCE lighting simulation system, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Gregory J. Ward, The RADIANCE lighting simulation and rendering system, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 459-472, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192286

• 2007 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

John E. Warnock

• 1969 Warnock area-subdivision hidden-surface algorithm, at University of Utah, Computer Science
  Warnock, J. E., A hidden surface algorithm for computer generated halftone pictures, University of Utah Computer Science TR 4-15, 1969; original not located online, described in Sutherland, Sproull and Schumacker, A characterization of ten hidden-surface algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1), 1974, doi:10.1145/356625.356626

• 1989 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Li-Yi Wei

• 2000 Fast texture synthesis (tree-structured vector quantization), at Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Marc Levoy
  Li-Yi Wei, Marc Levoy, Fast texture synthesis using tree-structured vector quantization, SIGGRAPH 2000, doi:10.1145/344779.345009

Turner Whitted

• 1980 Recursive (Whitted) ray tracing, at Bell Labs
  Turner Whitted, An improved illumination model for shaded display, Communications of the ACM 23(6), pp. 343-349, 1980, doi:10.1145/358876.358882

• 1986 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
• 2013 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Mary C. Whitton

• 1984 Memory design for raster (frame buffer) displays, at Ikonas Graphics Systems
  Mary C. Whitton, Memory Design for Raster Graphics Displays, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 4(3), pp. 48-65, 1984, doi:10.1109/MCG.1984.276064
• 2002 Physiological measures of presence in VR, at UNC Chapel Hill, Computer Science, with Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  Michael Meehan, Brent Insko, Mary Whitton, Frederick P. Brooks, Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 645-652, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566630

Lance Williams

• 1978 Shadow mapping, at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Lance Williams, Casting curved shadows on curved surfaces, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 270-274, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807402
• 1983 Mipmapping (pyramidal parametrics), at New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
  Lance Williams, Pyramidal parametrics, Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 1-11, 1983, doi:10.1145/800059.801126
• 1990 Performance-driven facial animation, at Apple Computer (Advanced Technology Group)
  Lance Williams, Performance-driven facial animation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 235-242, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97906

• 2001 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

Andrew Witkin

• 1988 Snakes: active contour models, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Michael Kass, Demetri Terzopoulos
  Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, International Journal of Computer Vision 1(4), pp. 321-331, 1988, doi:10.1007/BF00133570
• 1988 Spacetime constraints, at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, with Michael Kass
  Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass, Spacetime constraints, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 159-168, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378507
• 1994 Particle sampling of implicit surfaces, at Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science, with Paul S. Heckbert
  Andrew P. Witkin, Paul S. Heckbert, Using particles to sample and control implicit surfaces, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 269-277, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192227
• 1998 Large steps in cloth simulation, at Pixar, with David Baraff
  David Baraff, Andrew Witkin, Large steps in cloth simulation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 43-54, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280821

• 2001 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Peter Wonka

• 2006 Procedural modeling of buildings (CGA shape), at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Pascal Müller
  Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka, Simon Haegler, Andreas Ulmer, Luc Van Gool, Procedural modeling of buildings, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141931

Brian Wyvill

• 1986 Soft objects (finite-radius implicit fields), with Geoff Wyvill
  Geoff Wyvill, Craig McPheeters, Brian Wyvill, Data structure for soft objects, The Visual Computer 2(4), 1986, doi:10.1007/BF01900346

Geoff Wyvill

• 1986 Soft objects (finite-radius implicit fields), with Brian Wyvill
  Geoff Wyvill, Craig McPheeters, Brian Wyvill, Data structure for soft objects, The Visual Computer 2(4), 1986, doi:10.1007/BF01900346

Edward E. Zajac

• 1964 Computer-made perspective movies (satellite attitude film), at Bell Labs
  E. E. Zajac, Computer-made perspective movies as a scientific and communication tool, Communications of the ACM 7(3), pp. 169-170, 1964, doi:10.1145/363958.363993

Denis Zorin

• 1996 Interpolating subdivision (modified butterfly), at Caltech, Computer Science, with Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens
  Denis Zorin, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Interpolating Subdivision for meshes with arbitrary topology, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 189-192, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237254

• 2019 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Matthias Zwicker

• 2001 Surface splatting (EWA point rendering), at ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory, with Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister
  Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, Markus Gross, Surface splatting, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 371-378, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383300

3dfx Interactive

ACM SIGGRAPH (special interest group and annual conference)

• 1974 First annual SIGGRAPH conference, Boulder, 600 attendees
  ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, SIGGRAPH 1974, 1st Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boulder, Colorado, July 15-17, 1974, 600 attendees

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)

• 1986 1986 Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics (proceedings 1987)
  Brooks, F. P., Walkthrough: a dynamic graphics system for simulating virtual buildings, Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D), published 1987, doi:10.1145/319120.319122

ACM Transactions on Graphics

• 1982 Volume 1 published
  Crossref journal record ISSN 0730-0301: earliest item in ACM Transactions on Graphics is volume 1, January 1982 (for example Cook and Torrance, TOG 1(1), doi:10.1145/357290.357293)

Adobe

Alias|Wavefront

• 1998 Exact evaluation of Catmull-Clark surfaces, by Jos Stam
  Jos Stam, Exact evaluation of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces at arbitrary parameter values, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 395-404, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280945
• 1999 Stable fluids, by Jos Stam
  Jos Stam, Stable fluids, Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '99, pp. 121-128, 1999, doi:10.1145/311535.311548
• 2001 Visual simulation of smoke, by Jos Stam
  Ronald Fedkiw, Jos Stam, Henrik Wann Jensen, Visual simulation of smoke, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 15-22, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383260

Apple Computer (Advanced Technology Group)

• 1990 Performance-driven facial animation, by Lance Williams
  Lance Williams, Performance-driven facial animation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 235-242, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97906
• 1990 Rapid, stable fluid dynamics (height-field water), by Michael Kass, Gavin Miller
  Michael Kass, Gavin Miller, Rapid, stable fluid dynamics for computer graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 49-57, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97884

ARPA Information Processing Techniques Office

ATI Technologies (AMD from 2006)

Autodesk

Bell Labs

• 1964 Computer-made perspective movies (satellite attitude film), by Edward E. Zajac
  E. E. Zajac, Computer-made perspective movies as a scientific and communication tool, Communications of the ACM 7(3), pp. 169-170, 1964, doi:10.1145/363958.363993
• 1964 BEFLIX animated-movie language, by Kenneth C. Knowlton
  Kenneth C. Knowlton, A computer technique for producing animated movies, Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference on XX - AFIPS '64 (Spring), pp. 67, 1964, doi:10.1145/1464122.1464130
• 1967 Displaying n-dimensional hyperobjects, by A. Michael Noll
  A. Michael Noll, A computer technique for displaying n -dimensional hyperobjects, Communications of the ACM 10(8), pp. 469-473, 1967, doi:10.1145/363534.363544
• 1967 The digital computer as a creative medium, by A. Michael Noll
  A. Michael Noll, The digital computer as a creative medium, IEEE Spectrum 4(10), pp. 89-95, 1967, doi:10.1109/MSPEC.1967.5217127
• 1969 Picture processing by computer, by Kenneth C. Knowlton, Leon D. Harmon
  Leon D. Harmon, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Picture Processing by Computer, Science 164(3875), pp. 19-29, 1969, doi:10.1126/science.164.3875.19
• 1979 Film-making with computer, by Lillian F. Schwartz
  Lillian F. Schwartz, Charles B. Rubinstein, Film-making with Computer Adapting a New Technology for Art, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 4(4), pp. 298-305, 1979, doi:10.1179/isr.1979.4.4.298
• 1980 Recursive (Whitted) ray tracing, by Turner Whitted
  Turner Whitted, An improved illumination model for shaded display, Communications of the ACM 23(6), pp. 343-349, 1980, doi:10.1145/358876.358882
• 1985 Compositing 3D rendered images (rgbaz), by Tom Duff
  Tom Duff, Compositing 3-D rendered images, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 41-44, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325174
• 1995 Spherical wavelets, by Wim Sweldens
  Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Spherical wavelets, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 161-172, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218439
• undated Pixillation (film), by Lillian F. Schwartz
  ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, person page Lillian Schwartz: Pixillation (Bell Laboratories), screened SIGGRAPH 1979; production year not stated on the page

Boeing

• 1982 Human figure simulation series (Boeing Man), by William A. Fetter
  Fetter, A Progression of Human Figures Simulated by Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2(9), pp. 9-13, 1982, doi:10.1109/MCG.1982.1674468
• 1982 Fractal terrain (rendering of stochastic models), by Loren Carpenter
  Alain Fournier, Don Fussell, Loren Carpenter, Computer rendering of stochastic models, Communications of the ACM 25(6), pp. 371-384, 1982, doi:10.1145/358523.358553

Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)

• 1968 Wheel of reincarnation (display processor design), by Theodore H. Myer
  T. H. Myer, I. E. Sutherland, On the design of display processors, Communications of the ACM 11(6), pp. 410-414, 1968, doi:10.1145/363347.363368

Brigham Young University

• 1986 Free-form deformation, by Thomas W. Sederberg
  Thomas W. Sederberg, Scott R. Parry, Free-form deformation of solid geometric models, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 151-160, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15903
• 2003 T-splines, by Thomas W. Sederberg
  Thomas W. Sederberg, Jianmin Zheng, Almaz Bakenov, Ahmad Nasri, T-splines and T-NURCCs, ACM Transactions on Graphics 22(3), pp. 477-484, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882295

Brown University, Computer Science

• 1982 Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with Foley), by Andries van Dam
  Richard Land, James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 17(1), pp. 59, 1984, doi:10.2307/1574879

Brunel University

• 1978 Doo-Sabin subdivision, by Daniel Doo
  D. Doo, M. Sabin, Behaviour of recursive division surfaces near extraordinary points, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 356-360, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90111-2

Caltech, Computer Science

• 1981 VLSI raster update architecture, by Ivan E. Sutherland
  Satish Gupta, Robert F. Sproull, Ivan E. Sutherland, A VLSI architecture for updating raster-scan displays, Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '81, pp. 71-78, 1981, doi:10.1145/800224.806791
• 1984 Ray tracing volume densities, by James T. Kajiya, Brian P. Von Herzen
  James T. Kajiya, Brian P Von Herzen, Ray tracing volume densities, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808594
• 1986 The rendering equation (path tracing), by James T. Kajiya
  James T. Kajiya, The rendering equation, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 143-150, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15902
• 1987 Elastically deformable models, by Alan H. Barr
  Demetri Terzopoulos, John Platt, Alan Barr, Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 205-214, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37427
• 1989 Kajiya-Kay fur rendering, by James T. Kajiya
  J. T. Kajiya, T. L. Kay, Rendering fur with three dimensional textures, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 271-280, 1989, doi:10.1145/74333.74361
• 1995 Spherical wavelets, by Peter Schröder
  Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Spherical wavelets, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 161-172, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218439
• 1995 Cellular texture generation, by Kurt W. Fleischer, Alan H. Barr
  Kurt W. Fleischer, David H. Laidlaw, Bena L. Currin, Alan H. Barr, Cellular texture generation, SIGGRAPH 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218447
• 1996 Interpolating subdivision (modified butterfly), by Peter Schröder, Denis Zorin
  Denis Zorin, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens, Interpolating Subdivision for meshes with arbitrary topology, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 189-192, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237254

Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science

• 1994 Particle sampling of implicit surfaces, by Andrew Witkin
  Andrew P. Witkin, Paul S. Heckbert, Using particles to sample and control implicit surfaces, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 269-277, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192227
• 1997 Quadric error metric simplification, by Paul S. Heckbert, Michael Garland
  Michael Garland, Paul S. Heckbert, Surface simplification using quadric error metrics, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '97, pp. 209-216, 1997, doi:10.1145/258734.258849
• 2002 Interactive avatar control from motion-capture data, by Jessica K. Hodgins
  Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard, Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 491-500, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566607

CGAL Project (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library)

• 1996 The CGAL kernel, by Andreas Fabri, Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra
  Andreas Fabri, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Lutz Kettner, Stefan Schirra, Sven Schönherr, The CGAL kernel: a basis for geometric computation, Applied Computational Geometry (WACG 1996), LNCS 1148, 1996, doi:10.1007/BFb0014496

Chalmers University of Technology

• 1997 Möller-Trumbore ray-triangle intersection, by Tomas Akenine-Möller
  Tomas Möller, Ben Trumbore, Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection, Journal of Graphics Tools 2(1), pp. 21-28, 1997, doi:10.1080/10867651.1997.10487468

Citroën

• 1999 Autobiography: Citroën curve and surface work (1959 onward), by Paul de Faget de Casteljau
  Paul de Faget de Casteljau, De Casteljau's autobiography: My time at Citroën, Computer Aided Geometric Design 16(7), pp. 583-586, 1999, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00024-2
• 1999 De Casteljau algorithm (analysis by Boehm and Müller), by Paul de Faget de Casteljau
  Wolfgang Boehm, Andreas Müller, On de Casteljau's algorithm, Computer Aided Geometric Design 16(7), pp. 587-605, 1999, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00023-0

Computer Graphics Forum

• 1982 Volume 1 published
  Crossref journal record ISSN 0167-7055: Computer Graphics Forum volume 1 issue 1, March 1982

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Cornell Program of Computer Graphics

• 1982 Cook-Torrance microfacet reflectance model, by Robert L. Cook, Kenneth E. Torrance
  R. L. Cook, K. E. Torrance, A Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 1(1), pp. 7-24, 1982, doi:10.1145/357290.357293
• 1984 Radiosity for computer graphics (Cornell box), by Donald P. Greenberg, Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance
  Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile, Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 213-222, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808601
• 1985 Hemi-cube form factors, by Donald P. Greenberg, Michael F. Cohen
  Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg, The hemi-cube, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 31-40, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325171
• 1987 Zonal method for participating media, by Kenneth E. Torrance, Holly Rushmeier
  Holly E. Rushmeier, Kenneth E. Torrance, The zonal method for calculating light intensities in the presence of a participating medium, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 293-302, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37436
• 1988 Progressive refinement radiosity, by Donald P. Greenberg, Michael F. Cohen
  Michael F. Cohen, Shenchang Eric Chen, John R. Wallace, Donald P. Greenberg, A progressive refinement approach to fast radiosity image generation, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378487
• 1989 Non-penetrating rigid-body dynamics, by David Baraff
  D. Baraff, Analytical methods for dynamic simulation of non-penetrating rigid bodies, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 223-232, 1989, doi:10.1145/74333.74356
• 1997 Möller-Trumbore ray-triangle intersection, by Ben Trumbore
  Tomas Möller, Ben Trumbore, Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection, Journal of Graphics Tools 2(1), pp. 21-28, 1997, doi:10.1080/10867651.1997.10487468
• 1999 Image-based BRDF measurement, by Stephen R. Marschner, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg
  S. R. Marschner, S. H. Westin, E. P. F. Lafortune, K. E. Torrance, D. P. Greenberg, Image-based BRDF measurement including human skin, Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1999, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6809-7_13
• 2005 Lightcuts, by Kavita Bala
  Bruce Walter, Sebastian Fernandez, Adam Arbree, Kavita Bala, Michael Donikian, Donald P. Greenberg, Lightcuts, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3), pp. 1098-1107, 2005, doi:10.1145/1073204.1073318

Cyberware

• 1994 Laser scanner of the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository models (Cyberware 3030 MS)
  Stanford 3D Scanning Repository: the Stanford models were scanned with a Cyberware 3030 MS scanner

Digital Productions

Disney Research

DreamWorks Animation

• 2013 VDB sparse volumes (OpenVDB), by Ken Museth
  Ken Museth, VDB: high-resolution sparse volumes with dynamic topology, ACM TOG 32(3), 2013, doi:10.1145/2487228.2487235

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

• 2019 Mitsuba 2 retargetable (differentiable) renderer, by Wenzel Jakob
  Merlin Nimier-David, Delio Vicini, Tizian Zeltner, Wenzel Jakob, Mitsuba 2, ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(6), pp. 1-17, 2019, doi:10.1145/3355089.3356498

Epic Games

ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Laboratory

• 2001 Surface splatting (EWA point rendering), by Markus Gross, Matthias Zwicker
  Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, Markus Gross, Surface splatting, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 371-378, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383300
• 2001 Procedural modeling of cities, by Yoav I. H. Parish, Pascal Müller
  Yoav I. H. Parish, Pascal Müller, Procedural modeling of cities, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383292
• 2006 Procedural modeling of buildings (CGA shape), by Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka
  Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka, Simon Haegler, Andreas Ulmer, Luc Van Gool, Procedural modeling of buildings, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141931

Eurographics Association and conference

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR, formerly Workshop on Rendering)

• 1996 Photon mapping published at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 1996
  Henrik Wann Jensen, Global Illumination using Photon Maps, Eurographics, pp. 21-30, 1996, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-7484-5_3

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

• 2020 NeRF published at ECCV 2020
  Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T. Barron, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Ren Ng, NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 405-421, 2020, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58452-8_24

Evans & Sutherland

• 1974 Survey: ten hidden-surface algorithms, by Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert A. Schumacker
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, Robert A. Schumacker, A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms, ACM Computing Surveys 6(1), pp. 1-55, 1974, doi:10.1145/356625.356626
• 1974 Sutherland-Hodgman reentrant polygon clipping, by Gary W. Hodgman
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Gary W. Hodgman, Reentrant polygon clipping, Communications of the ACM 17(1), pp. 32-42, 1974, doi:10.1145/360767.360802

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD)

General Electric (Electronics Laboratory)

• 1969 Computer-generated imagery for visual simulation study (1969)
  Robert A. Schumacker, Brigitta Brand, Maurice G. Gilliland, Werner H. Sharp, STUDY FOR APPLYING COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES TO VISUAL SIMULATION, 1969, doi:10.21236/ad0700375
• 1969 Computer-generated imagery for visual flight simulation (GE study), by Robert A. Schumacker
  Robert A. Schumacker, Brigitta Brand, Maurice G. Gilliland, Werner H. Sharp, STUDY FOR APPLYING COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES TO VISUAL SIMULATION, 1969, doi:10.21236/ad0700375

General Motors Research Laboratories

• 1974 B-spline curves and surfaces for CAD, by William J. Gordon
  William J. Gordon, Richard F. Riesenfeld, B-SPLINE CURVES AND SURFACES, Computer Aided Geometric Design, pp. 95-126, 1974, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-079050-0.50011-4
• 1994 DAC-1 history (Krull, IEEE Annals 1994)
  F.N. Krull, The origin of computer graphics within General Motors, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 16(3), pp. 40, 1994, doi:10.1109/mahc.1994.298419
• 1994 History: origin of computer graphics at General Motors (DAC-1), by Fred N. Krull
  F.N. Krull, The origin of computer graphics within General Motors, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 16(3), pp. 40, 1994, doi:10.1109/mahc.1994.298419

George Washington University

• 1982 Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics (textbook, with van Dam), by James D. Foley
  Richard Land, James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, Leonardo 17(1), pp. 59, 1984, doi:10.2307/1574879
• 1984 Human factors of graphics interaction techniques, by James D. Foley
  James D. Foley, Victor L. Wallace, Peggy Chan, The human factors of computer graphics interaction techniques, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 4(11), pp. 13-48, 1984, doi:10.1109/MCG.1984.6429355

Georgia Institute of Technology

• 1995 Animating human athletics (physics-based control), by Jessica K. Hodgins, James F. O'Brien
  Jessica K. Hodgins, Wayne L. Wooten, David C. Brogan, James F. O'Brien, Animating human athletics, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, pp. 71-78, 1995, doi:10.1145/218380.218414

Harvard University (Aiken Computation Laboratory)

• 1968 Wheel of reincarnation (display processor design), by Ivan E. Sutherland
  T. H. Myer, I. E. Sutherland, On the design of display processors, Communications of the ACM 11(6), pp. 410-414, 1968, doi:10.1145/363347.363368
• 1968 Head-mounted three-dimensional display, by Ivan E. Sutherland
  Ivan E. Sutherland, A head-mounted three dimensional display, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I), pp. 757, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476589.1476686
• 1969 Real-time color stereo displays, by Ivan E. Sutherland
  Richard I. Land, Ivan E. Sutherland, Real-Time, Color, Stereo, Computer Displays, Applied Optics 8(3), pp. 721, 1969, doi:10.1364/ao.8.000721

High-Performance Graphics (HPG)

Hiroshima University

• 1985 Radiosity-style interreflection with shadows, by Tomoyuki Nishita, Eihachiro Nakamae
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Eihachiro Nakamae, Continuous tone representation of three-dimensional objects taking account of shadows and interreflection, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 23-30, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325169
• 1993 Atmospheric scattering for Earth views, by Tomoyuki Nishita
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Takao Sirai, Katsumi Tadamura, Eihachiro Nakamae, Display of the earth taking into account atmospheric scattering, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 175-182, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166140

IBM (Research and Systems)

• 1965 Bresenham line algorithm, by Jack E. Bresenham
  J. E. Bresenham, Algorithm for computer control of a digital plotter, IBM Systems Journal 4(1), pp. 25-30, 1965, doi:10.1147/sj.41.0025
• 1967 Quantitative invisibility (hidden lines), by Arthur Appel
  Arthur Appel, The notion of quantitative invisibility and the machine rendering of solids, Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference on -, pp. 387-393, 1967, doi:10.1145/800196.806007
• 1967 How long is the coast of Britain? (fractal dimension), by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
  Benoit Mandelbrot, How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension, Science 156(3775), pp. 636-638, 1967, doi:10.1126/science.156.3775.636
• 1968 Ray casting for shading and shadows, by Arthur Appel
  Arthur Appel, Some techniques for shading machine renderings of solids, Proceedings of the April 30--May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '68 (Spring), pp. 37, 1968, doi:10.1145/1468075.1468082
• 1977 Bresenham circle algorithm, by Jack E. Bresenham
  Jack Bresenham, A linear algorithm for incremental digital display of circular arcs, Communications of the ACM 20(2), pp. 100-106, 1977, doi:10.1145/359423.359432

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

• 1981 Volume 1 published
  Crossref journal record ISSN 0272-1716: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications volume 1, January 1981

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

• 1995 Volume 1 published
  Crossref journal record ISSN 1077-2626: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics volume 1, 1995

IEEE VIS (Visualization conference)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Ikonas Graphics Systems

• 1984 Memory design for raster (frame buffer) displays, by Mary C. Whitton
  Mary C. Whitton, Memory Design for Raster Graphics Displays, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 4(3), pp. 48-65, 1984, doi:10.1109/MCG.1984.276064

Industrial Light & Magic

• 2002 Particle level set for water surfaces, by Douglas Enright, Ronald Fedkiw
  Douglas Enright, Stephen Marschner, Ronald Fedkiw, Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces, ACM TOG 21(3), 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566645

Information International Inc. (III)

INRIA

• 1997 Deformable models with implicit surfaces, by Marie-Paule Cani, Mathieu Desbrun
  M. Cani-Gascuel, M. Desbrun, Animation of deformable models using implicit surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 3(1), pp. 39-50, 1997, doi:10.1109/2945.582343
• 2023 3D Gaussian splatting, by Bernhard Kerbl, George Drettakis
  Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkuehler, George Drettakis, 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(4), pp. 1-14, 2023, doi:10.1145/3592433

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science

• 2006 Poisson surface reconstruction, by Michael Kazhdan, Matthew Bolitho
  Michael Kazhdan, Matthew Bolitho, Hugues Hoppe, Poisson surface reconstruction, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006, doi:10.2312/SGP/SGP06/061-070

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• 1992 Ward anisotropic reflectance model, by Gregory J. Ward
  Gregory J. Ward, Measuring and modeling anisotropic reflection, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 265-272, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134078
• 1994 RADIANCE lighting simulation system, by Gregory J. Ward
  Gregory J. Ward, The RADIANCE lighting simulation and rendering system, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 459-472, 1994, doi:10.1145/192161.192286

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• 1986 Atmospheric illumination and shadows (light shafts), by Nelson L. Max
  Nelson L. Max, Atmospheric illumination and shadows, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 117-124, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15899

Lucasfilm Computer Division

• 1983 Particle systems, by William T. Reeves
  W. T. Reeves, Particle Systems: a Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2(2), pp. 91-108, 1983, doi:10.1145/357318.357320
• 1984 Graftals: plants, fractals and formal languages, by Alvy Ray Smith
  Alvy Ray Smith, Plants, fractals, and formal languages, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 1-10, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808571
• 1984 Distributed (stochastic) ray tracing, by Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter
  Robert L. Cook, Thomas Porter, Loren Carpenter, Distributed ray tracing, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 137-145, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808590
• 1984 Shade trees, by Robert L. Cook
  Robert L. Cook, Shade trees, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 223-231, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808602
• 1984 A-buffer, by Loren Carpenter
  Loren Carpenter, The A -buffer, an antialiased hidden surface method, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 103-108, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808585
• 1984 Alpha compositing (Porter-Duff operators), by Thomas Porter, Tom Duff
  Thomas Porter, Tom Duff, Compositing digital images, Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 253-259, 1984, doi:10.1145/800031.808606

MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group Inc.)

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

• 2004 Laplacian surface editing, by Hans-Peter Seidel
  O. Sorkine, D. Cohen-Or, Y. Lipman, M. Alexa, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Laplacian surface editing, Proceedings of the 2004 Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Geometry processing, pp. 175-184, 2004, doi:10.1145/1057432.1057456

Microsoft Research

• 1996 The Lumigraph, by Michael F. Cohen, Richard Szeliski
  Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen, The lumigraph, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 43-54, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237200
• 1996 Progressive meshes, by Hugues Hoppe
  Hugues Hoppe, Progressive meshes, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 99-108, 1996, doi:10.1145/237170.237216
• 2005 Resolution-independent GPU curve rendering, by James F. Blinn, Charles Loop
  Charles Loop, Jim Blinn, Resolution independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3), pp. 1000-1009, 2005, doi:10.1145/1073204.1073303
• 2006 Poisson surface reconstruction, by Hugues Hoppe
  Kazhdan, M., Bolitho, M. and Hoppe, H., Poisson surface reconstruction, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2006
• 2006 Photo Tourism (structure from motion on photo collections), by Richard Szeliski
  Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski, Photo tourism, ACM TOG 25(3), 2006, doi:10.1145/1141911.1141964
• 2011 Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (textbook), by Richard Szeliski
  Richard Szeliski, Computer Vision, Texts in Computer Science, 2011, doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-935-0

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

• 2002 Bilateral-filter HDR tone mapping, by Frédo Durand, Julie Dorsey
  Frédo Durand, Julie Dorsey, Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 257-266, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566574
• 2018 Differentiable Monte Carlo ray tracing (edge sampling), by Tzu-Mao Li
  Tzu-Mao Li, Miika Aittala, Frédo Durand, Jaakko Lehtinen, Differentiable Monte Carlo ray tracing through edge sampling, ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(6), pp. 1-11, 2018, doi:10.1145/3272127.3275109

MIT Lincoln Laboratory (TX-2)

• 1963 Sketchpad (PhD thesis), by Ivan E. Sutherland
  Sutherland, I. E., Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, PhD thesis, MIT, January 1963; republished as University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-574, 2003
• 1963 Sketchpad (AFIPS paper), by Ivan E. Sutherland
  Ivan E. Sutherland, Sketchpad, Proceedings of the May 21-23, 1963, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '63 (Spring), pp. 329, 1963, doi:10.1145/1461551.1461591
• 1963 Machine perception of 3D solids (hidden lines, homogeneous coordinates), by Lawrence G. Roberts
  Roberts, L. G., Machine perception of three-dimensional solids, PhD thesis, MIT (Lincoln Laboratory TR 315), 1963
• 1969 Picture-driven animation (GENESYS), by Ronald M. Baecker
  Ronald M. Baecker, Picture-driven animation, Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference on XX - AFIPS '69 (Spring), pp. 273, 1969, doi:10.1145/1476793.1476838

MIT Project MAC

• 1967 Coons patch (Surfaces for computer-aided design of space forms, MAC-TR-41), by Steven A. Coons
  Steven A. Coons, SURFACES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF SPACE FORMS, 1967, doi:10.21236/ad0663504

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

• 2001 Surface splatting (EWA point rendering), by Hanspeter Pfister
  Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, Markus Gross, Surface splatting, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 371-378, 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383300
• 2003 MERL BRDF database (data-driven reflectance model), by Hanspeter Pfister, Matthew Brand, Wojciech Matusik
  Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Matt Brand, Leonard McMillan, A data-driven reflectance model, ACM TOG 22(3), pp. 759-769, 2003, doi:10.1145/882262.882343

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• 1982 Blobby (metaball) implicit surfaces, by James F. Blinn
  James F. Blinn, A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing, ACM Transactions on Graphics 1(3), pp. 235-256, 1982, doi:10.1145/357306.357310

National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now NIST

• 1977 Definition of the BRDF (NBS Monograph 160), by Fred E. Nicodemus
  F. E. Nicodemus, J. C. Richmond, J. J. Hsia, I. W. Ginsberg, T. Limperis, Geometrical considerations and nomenclature for reflectance, NBS Monograph 160, 1977, doi:10.6028/NBS.MONO.160

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• 1988 Renaissance teams: artist's contribution to scientific visualization, by Donna J. Cox
  Donna J. Cox, Using the Supercomputer to Visualize Higher Dimensions: An Artist's Contribution to Scientific Visualization, Leonardo 21(3), pp. 233, 1988, doi:10.2307/1578648

National Science Foundation

New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab

• 1978 Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces, by Edwin Catmull
  E. Catmull, J. Clark, Recursively generated B-spline surfaces on arbitrary topological meshes, Computer-Aided Design 10(6), pp. 350-355, 1978, doi:10.1016/0010-4485(78)90110-0
• 1978 Hidden-surface algorithm with anti-aliasing, by Edwin Catmull
  Edwin Catmull, A hidden-surface algorithm with anti-aliasing, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 6-11, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807360
• 1978 Shadow mapping, by Lance Williams
  Lance Williams, Casting curved shadows on curved surfaces, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 270-274, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807402
• 1978 HSV color model (color gamut transform pairs), by Alvy Ray Smith
  Alvy Ray Smith, Color gamut transform pairs, Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 12-19, 1978, doi:10.1145/800248.807361
• 1979 Tint fill, by Alvy Ray Smith
  Alvy Ray Smith, Tint fill, Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 276-283, 1979, doi:10.1145/800249.807456
• 1980 Two-pass scanline image warping, by Edwin Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith
  Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, 3-D transformations of images in scanline order, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 14(3), pp. 279-285, 1980, doi:10.1145/965105.807505
• 1982 The Catherine Wheel (computer-animated figure for Twyla Tharp), by Rebecca Allen
  Allen, R., works list: Catherine Wheel, 1982, performance film (artist's site); also listed at ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, SIGGRAPH 1986 retrospective
• 1983 Mipmapping (pyramidal parametrics), by Lance Williams
  Lance Williams, Pyramidal parametrics, Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 1-11, 1983, doi:10.1145/800059.801126
• 1985 Modeling the mighty maple (tree modeling), by Jules Bloomenthal
  Jules Bloomenthal, Modeling the mighty maple, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 305-311, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325249

New York University (Media Research Lab)

• 1985 Perlin noise (an image synthesizer), by Ken Perlin
  Ken Perlin, An image synthesizer, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '85, pp. 287-296, 1985, doi:10.1145/325334.325247
• 1998 Painterly rendering with curved strokes, by Aaron Hertzmann
  Aaron Hertzmann, Painterly rendering with curved brush strokes of multiple sizes, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 453-460, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280951
• 2002 Improved noise, by Ken Perlin
  Ken Perlin, Improving noise, ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), pp. 681-682, 2002, doi:10.1145/566654.566636

NTT Human Interface Laboratories

• 1990 Comprehensible rendering (G-buffers), by Takafumi Saito, Tokiichiro Takahashi
  Takafumi Saito, Tokiichiro Takahashi, Comprehensible rendering of 3-D shapes, SIGGRAPH 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97901

NVIDIA

• 1993 Founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, by Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1993, 'Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem'
• 1993 Co-founded NVIDIA, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1993, 'Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem'
• 1999 GeForce 256 marketed as the first GPU (company claim), by Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 1999, 'Invents the GPU, the graphics processing unit' (company claim)
• 2006 CUDA architecture, by Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 2006, unveiling of the CUDA architecture
• 2008 Tesla unified shader and compute architecture, by Erik Lindholm
  Erik Lindholm, John Nickolls, Stuart Oberman, John Montrym, NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture, IEEE Micro 28(2), pp. 39-55, 2008, doi:10.1109/mm.2008.31
• 2008 NVIDIA Tesla unified graphics and compute architecture, by John Nickolls, Erik Lindholm
  Erik Lindholm, John Nickolls, Stuart Oberman, John Montrym, NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture, IEEE Micro 28(2), pp. 39-55, 2008, doi:10.1109/mm.2008.31
• 2013 Programming Massively Parallel Processors (CUDA textbook, 2nd edition shown), by David B. Kirk
  David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Parallel Programming and Computational Thinking, Programming Massively Parallel Processors, pp. 281-295, 2013, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-415992-1.00013-4
• 2018 RTX real-time ray tracing hardware (company claim of first), by Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
  NVIDIA, Corporate timeline: 2018, NVIDIA RTX, 'the first GPU capable of real-time ray tracing' (company claim)

NVIDIA Research

• 2022 Instant neural graphics primitives (multiresolution hash encoding), by Thomas Müller
  Thomas Müller, Alex Evans, Christoph Schied, Alexander Keller, Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding, ACM Transactions on Graphics 41(4), pp. 1-15, 2022, doi:10.1145/3528223.3530127

Ohio State University (CGRG, later ACCAD)

• 1968 Art, computers and mathematics, by Charles A. Csuri, James Shaffer
  Charles Csuri, James Shaffer, Art, computers and mathematics, Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part II on - AFIPS '68 (Fall, part II), pp. 1293, 1968, doi:10.1145/1476706.1476759

Oxford Metrics (Vicon)

• 1979 First Vicon optical motion-capture system (Oxford Medical Systems)
  Vicon, About us: the original Vicon product was introduced in 1979; Oxford Metrics formed by management buyout in 1984

Pacific Data Images

• 1992 Feature-based image metamorphosis (morphing), by Thaddeus Beier, Shawn Neely
  Thaddeus Beier, Shawn Neely, Feature-based image metamorphosis, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 35-42, 1992, doi:10.1145/133994.134003
• 2001 Practical animation of liquids (level sets with particles), by Nick Foster, Ronald Fedkiw
  Nick Foster, Ronald Fedkiw, Practical animation of liquids, SIGGRAPH 2001, doi:10.1145/383259.383261

Pixar

• 1986 Stochastic sampling, by Robert L. Cook
  Robert L. Cook, Stochastic sampling in computer graphics, ACM Transactions on Graphics 5(1), pp. 51-72, 1986, doi:10.1145/7529.8927
• 1986 Ocean waves model, by William T. Reeves
  Alain Fournier, William T. Reeves, A simple model of ocean waves, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 75-84, 1986, doi:10.1145/15922.15894
• 1986 Survey of texture mapping, by Paul S. Heckbert
  Paul S. Heckbert, Survey of Texture Mapping, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 6(11), pp. 56-67, 1986, doi:10.1109/MCG.1986.276672
• 1987 Reyes rendering architecture, by Edwin Catmull, Robert L. Cook
  Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter, Edwin Catmull, The Reyes image rendering architecture, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 95-102, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37414
• 1987 Percentage-closer filtering for shadow maps, by William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin
  William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin, Robert L. Cook, Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 283-291, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37435
• 1987 Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D, by John Lasseter
  John Lasseter, Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 35-44, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37407
• 1988 Volume rendering (Pixar), by Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Robert A. Drebin
  Robert A. Drebin, Loren Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan, Volume rendering, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 65-74, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378484
• 1990 RenderMan Shading Language, by Pat Hanrahan, Jim Lawson
  Pat Hanrahan, Jim Lawson, A language for shading and lighting calculations, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 24(4), pp. 289-298, 1990, doi:10.1145/97880.97911
• 1998 Subdivision surfaces in character animation (Geri's Game), by Tony DeRose, Michael Kass
  Tony DeRose, Michael Kass, Tien Truong, Subdivision surfaces in character animation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 85-94, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280826
• 1998 Large steps in cloth simulation, by Andrew Witkin, David Baraff
  David Baraff, Andrew Witkin, Large steps in cloth simulation, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '98, pp. 43-54, 1998, doi:10.1145/280814.280821

Princeton University

• 1993 Subsurface scattering from layered surfaces, by Pat Hanrahan, Wolfgang Krueger
  Pat Hanrahan, Wolfgang Krueger, Reflection from layered surfaces due to subsurface scattering, Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 165-174, 1993, doi:10.1145/166117.166139

Renault

• 1971 UNISURF (Bézier curves and surfaces at Renault), by Pierre Bézier
  P. E. Bézier, Example of an existing system in the motor industry: the Unisurf system, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 321(1545), pp. 207-218, 1971, doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0027

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• 1981 Superquadrics, by Alan H. Barr
  Barr, Superquadrics and Angle-Preserving Transformations, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 1(1), pp. 11-23, 1981, doi:10.1109/MCG.1981.1673799

Schlumberger Palo Alto Research

• 1987 Elastically deformable models, by Demetri Terzopoulos
  Demetri Terzopoulos, John Platt, Alan Barr, Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 205-214, 1987, doi:10.1145/37401.37427
• 1988 Snakes: active contour models, by Demetri Terzopoulos, Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass
  Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, International Journal of Computer Vision 1(4), pp. 321-331, 1988, doi:10.1007/BF00133570
• 1988 Spacetime constraints, by Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass
  Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass, Spacetime constraints, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 159-168, 1988, doi:10.1145/54852.378507

SideFX (Side Effects Software)

• 1987 PRISMS procedural graphics application, by Kim Davidson, Greg Hermanovic
  SideFX, About SideFX: Davidson and Hermanovic created Side Effects Software and released PRISMS in 1987

SIGGRAPH Asia

• 2008 First SIGGRAPH Asia
  ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 conference record

Silicon Graphics (SGI)