Computer graphics related links
Books
-
Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded
Images (2008)
- Contour-based images; Representation, Creation and Manipulation (2009)
- Papers by Alvy Ray Smith (Lucasfilm's computer division and Pixar co-founder)
- Yet More Circle Generators (1990)
- GPU Gems (look it up on a search engine; 'modern' computer graphics)
- Graphics Gems (look it up on a search engine; old-school computer graphics)
- Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
- Kai's Power Tip & Tricks for Adobe Photoshop (lots of early 90s graphics tricks)
- Black Art of 3D Game Programming (some good stuff in there)
Resources
- Karl Sims website
- Paul Bourke website
- Inigo Quilez website
- Defence force (has
some good graphics code articles in the blog section)
- Román Cortés website
(very nice tiny code algorithms idea / breakdown in the blog
section) also see v2
- Paul Malin blog (has nice detailed articles about color cycling effects; effect used in Jetpac, Space Harrier or Amiga boing ball for example)
- Math cheat sheet for 2D & 3D games (also has nice experiments)
- Digital sketch-book of generative art
Algorithms
- Poissons equation; one of the best article explaining physical phenomena simulations; can also be used for diffusion curve !
- Nice explanation of BSP trees also this and related to Doom
-
Triangle rasterization also
this and to go further with optimizations
Ryg article
- Bresenham's line algorithm; implementation for common shapes, 3D, Bézier curve and anti-aliased lines
- Fast Gaussian
blur algorithm
- Chris Hecker technical articles; his optimized perspective texture mapping is classic !
- Dithering
- Numerical Recipes in C
- Chaos game, 2d / 3d wave equations etc. also has science articles
- "Evolving the real-time graphics pipeline for micropolygon rendering"; has nice illustrations and breakdown of REYES
- Computing gradients on pixels / voxels grids; also has nice computer graphics articles
- Approximating Images with Epicycles
- Hexagonal grids; many cool articles and demos as well (pathfinding, visibility algorithm, map generation, line drawing etc.)
- donut.c with shifts and adds (CORDIC)
- span buffer algorithm; an old-school algorithm that sit between painter's algorithm and Z-buffer ones
- Game art tricks; some very good articles about technical art tricks in games
- Voxlap style renderer; 6 DOF Voxel renderer using an extended raycast method, similar but simpler than voxlap
Articles
- Alpha blending and pre-multiplied alpha explanation
- Gamma correction and why it matters
- Flipcode
archives (huge list of 2000s articles about rendering)
Fractal
- A gallery containing over 500 fractal images of many types
- Some simple chaotic flows
- Fractal Texture Generator (diamond-square algorithm; very cool textures!)
- Gary's Fractal Creations
- the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages
Tools
Demos
- Nightdrive (minimalist JavaScript simulation of driving at night time on the motorway)
Old School
- non-programming oriented guide to Sega Mega Drive graphics
- 8-bit code in your browser (great online platform to code on old systems !)
- sprite tricks of various Amiga games
Demoscene
- Demozoo
- Pouet
- wab (plenty cool JavaScript demos and recreation of old cracktro / demos)
- List of demo effects with details
- Marquee
design blog (nice details of code golfing intros)
- Making of "Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits" (Amstrad CPC)
- Atari ST demo browser
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