Papers & Archives

• Graphics Conference Paper Link Archive (Ke-Sen Huang)
• Reproducible Research archive (image processing, vision, machine learning) (Xin Li)

Mesh Libraries and Tools

• GTS (2D dynamic/constrained Delaunay triangulation, robust geometric predicates, mesh boolean set operations, refinement/coarsening, view-independent continuous LOD, view-dependent LOD, AABB-trees, Kd-trees, graph partitioning, isosurfacing, area, volume, mean/gaussian/principal curvature, stripification)
• trimesh2 mesh library (read PLY/OFF/3DS/OBJ, write PLY/OFF/OBJ, subdivision, smoothing, curvature estimation, triangle stripping, ICP, cleanup, decimation, basic shapes) (S. Rusinkiewicz)
• OpenMesh (PLY/OBJ, halfedge mesh, decimation, Loop/Sqrt3 subdivision, view-dependent progressive meshes, stripification) (J. Möbius, M. Habbecke)
• CGAL (2D/3D halfedge mesh, tet meshes) [full packages list] (Authors)
• MeshLab (import PLY/STL/OFF/OBJ/3DS/COLLADA/PTX/V3D/PTS/APTS/XYZ/GTS/TRI/ASC/X3D/X3DV/VRML/ALN, export PLY/STL/OFF/OBJ/3DS/COLLADA/VRML/DXF/GTS/U3D/IDTF/X3D, selection/smoothing painting, linear measurements, export planar slices, mesh decimation/repair/optimization, mesh alignment) [All Filters] (Authors)
• OpenFlipper (import/export OFF/OBJ/PLY/STL/STLA/STLB/OM, selection tools w/ surface/volume lasso and sphere brush, decimation, smoothing, edge/face editing) (J. Möbius)
• mview (read/view PMesh/GTS/OFF/COFF/PLY/VRML/Shallo/VTK ASCII POLYDATA/OBJ) (H. Cantzler, T. Breckon)
• PLY Tools (read/write PLY)
• ply2vri (convert PLY mesh to signed-distance volumetric grid, VRI/PPM formats) (B.Allen)
• JMeshLib (read/write OFF/PLY/STL/VRML1/VRML2/OBJ/IV 2.1) (M. Attene)
• ReMESH (automatic manifold repair, isolated component removal, hole filling, handle removal, degenerate triangle removal, sharp feature recovery, defect detection and hilighting, manual repair tools) (M. Attenne)
• GPUmesh - Easy Cross-Plateform Cross-API Mesh Management for GPUs (S. Lefebvre)
• A48: A Dynamic Adaptive Mesh Library based on Stellar Operators (L. Velho)
• Volumetric Mesh: tetrahedral and cube volumetric 3D meshes (J. Barbic)

Shape Modeling

• CGAL Subdivision Demo (Sqrt3, Quad-Triangle, Catmull-Clark, Doo-Sabin) (L.-J. Shiue, P. Alliez, R. Ursu, L. Kettner)
• interactive mesh deformation (S. Yoshizawa)
• manifold harmonics shape deformation (B. Vallet, B. Lévy)
• Graphite (Catmull-Clark subdivision) (Authors)
• MeshLab(loop/butterfly/midpoint subdivision) (Authors)
• 3D Model Synthesis from examples (P. Merrell)
• ShapeShop: sketch-based hierarchical implicit surface ("BlobTree") modeling (and SurfaceTree) (R. Schmidt, B. Wyvill, K. Singh)
• Real-time implicit surface polygonizer (R. Schmidt)
• As-rigid-as-possible 2D shape manipulation (R. Schmidt)
• Similarity-Based Surface Modelling (S. Zelinka)
• Mesh Modelling Using Curve Analogies (S. Zelinka)
• 2D laplacian curve editing (O. Sorkine)
• Convolution Surfaces for Line Skeletons with Polynomial Weight Distributions (X. Jin, J. Feng, Q. Peng, C-L. Tai)
• CARVE robust boolean operations between arbitrary polygonal models (T. Sargeant)
• GeoBrush: Interactive Mesh Geometry Cloning (discrete expmap, 3D Green coordinates deformation, GPU Poisson solver) (K. Takayama, R. Schmidt, K. Singh, T. Igarashi, T. Boubeker, O. Sorkine)
• MeshFlow: Interactive Visualization of Mesh Construction Sequences (J. Denning, W. Kerr, F. Pellacini)
• 3D Modeling with Silhouettes (A. Rivers, F. Durand, T. Igarashi)
• Apparent Layer Operations for the Manipulation of Deformable Objects (T. Igarashi, J. Mitani)
• Mesh Snapping: Robust Interactive Mesh Cutting Using Fast Geodesic Curvature Flow (J. Zhang, C. Wu, J. Cai, J. Zheng, X-C. Tai)

Segmentation

• efpisoft: hierarchical mesh segmentation based on fitting primitives (M. Attene)
• mesh segmentation benchmark database and viewer (X. Chen, A. Golovinskiy, T. Funkhouser)
• Graphite (variational shape approximation, image vectorization) [documentation wiki] (Authors)
• SegMatch: Shape Segmentation and Shape Matching from Point Cloud (T. Dey, S. Goswami)
• ShapeAnnotator segmentation tool (fitting primitives, barycentric/height/integral geodesic Morse, Plumber, Lloyd clustering) (Authors)
• Shape Diameter Function (SDF) segmentation tool (L. Shapira)

Parameterization

• fast stretch-minimizing parameterization (includes shape-preserving/Tutte/harmonic parameterization, and natural conformal parameterization ) (S. Yoshizawa)
• Graphite (ABF, ABF++, DPBF, LSCM, HLSCM, Barycentric, mean-value coordinates, L2 stretch, spectral conformal, Periodic Global Parameterization, Constrained texture mapping, texture atlas generation) [documentation wiki] (Authors)
• CGAL (LSCM, discrete conformal/authalic, Floater mean-value, Tutte barycentric) [full packages list] (Authors)
• linear discrete conformal parameterization (K. Crane)
• Discrete Exponential Map Demo (R. Schmidt)

Mesh Processing

• mesh smoothing/denoising by averaging with similarity-based weights (S. Yoshizawa)
• estimating curvature tensors on triangle meshes with CGAL (P. Alliez)
• Graphite (mesh curvature, uniform remeshing, mesh repair, volume meshing, manifold harmonics, appearance-preserving simplification, normal mapping) [documentation wiki] (Authors)
• CGAL (mesh simplification, mesh ridges/umbilics, mesh curvature)[full packages list] (Authors)
• MeshLab (discrete curvature, monte-carlo/stratified/poisson-disk mesh sampling, Hausdorff distance between meshes, uniform remeshing, voronoi vertex clustering, laplacian/Taubin smoothing, mesh unsharp mask, geodesic distances) [All Filters] (Authors)
• Simplification Envelopes generate mesh level-of-detail hierarchies (J. Cohen, A. Varshney, G. Turk)
• Volfill fill holes in mesh using volumetric diffusion (S. Marschner, K. Berglund)
• trimeshinfo: compute mesh properties (manifold, genus, orientation, volume, self-intersection, boundaries, connected components, ...) (Authors)
• Discrete Laplace Operator on Meshed Surfaces [Page] (J. Sun, M. Belkin, Y. Wang)
• QualMesh: Delaunay meshing of surfaces and volumes (T. Dey, T. Ray)
• DelIso: delaunay meshing of isosurfaces (T. Dey, J. Levine)
• SurfRemesh: Delaunay Remeshing of Polygonal Surfaces (T. Dey, T. Ray)
• DelPSC: delaunay mesh generation for surfaces, volumes and complexes (T. Dey, J. Levine)
• TriMesh2MT: convert polygon mesh to Multi-Triangulation (M. Attenne, E. Danovaro, P. Magillo)
• approximating gradients on meshes and point coulds via diffusion metric (C. Luo, I. Safa, Y. Wang)
• geodesic: multiple source/target exact geodesic algorithm for triangular mesh (unknown)
• IsoEx: Feature Sensitive Mesh Extraction (L. Kobbelt, M. Botsch, Schwanecke, H.P. Seidel)
• discrete connections and smooth vector fields on triangle meshes (K. Crane, M. Desbrun, P. Schroder)
• Scape terrain simplification (M. Garland)
• Terra terrain simplification (M. Garland)
• QSlim mesh simplification software (M. Garland)
• Permission Grid mesh simplification (S. Zelinka)
• Topology-based Smoothing of 2D Scalar Fields with C1-Continuity [Page] (T. Weinkauf, Y. Gingold, O. Sorkine)
• HanTun: computing handle and tunnel loops in 3D models (T. Dey, K. Li)
• Non-Iterative, Feature-Preserving Mesh Smoothing (also [Page]) (T. Jones)
• Efficient Implementation of Marching Cubes’ Cases with Topological Guarantees (T. Lewiner, H. Lopes, A. Viera, G. Tavares)
• Direct Spherical Harmonic Transform of a Triangulated Mesh (M. Mousa, R. Chaine, S. Akkouche)
• Normalizing for Anisotropy in Triangle Models (M. Kazhdan)
• Symmetry Descriptors and 3D Shape Matching (M. Kazhdan)
• Unconstrained Isosurface Extraction on Arbitrary Octrees (M. Kazhdan)
• Fast Mean-Curvature Flow via Finite-Elements Tracking (M. Kazhdan)
• Interactive and Anisotropic Geometry Processing Using the Screened Poisson Equation (M. Kazhdan)
• Blended Intrinsic Maps (V. Kim, Y. Lipman, T. Funkhouser)
• Spin Transforms of Discrete Surfaces (K. Crane, U. Pinkall, P. Schröder)

Point Set Processing

• QPoly: meshing scattered 3D points (Y. Ohtake)
• SLIM: sparse low-degree implicits (fitting, rendering, reflection lines, analytic curvature measures, crest lines, suggestive contours) (Y. Ohtake, A. Belyaev, M. Alexa)
• Multi-scale Compactly Supported Radial Basis Functions (Y. Ohtake)
• MeshLab (ICP range-map alignment, ball pivoting, point-set normals, Robust Implicit MLS (RIMLS), Algebraic point-set surface (APSS), Poisson surface reconstruction) [All Filters] (Authors)
• Vrip (convert aligned range images to volumetric format, extract mesh surface) (B. Curless)
• Zipper (combine range images into polygonal mesh) (G. Turk, H. Ge, B. Curless)
• Scanalyze (manual/ICP alignment and merging of range image data, fill holes, decimation, editing, PLY/SD formats) (Authors)
• QSplat (real-time multiresolution point-set rendering) (S. Rusinkiewicz, G. King)
• Constructing Laplace Operator from Point Clouds in R^d [Page] (J. Sun, M. Belkin, Y. Wang)
• NormFet: Approximating Normals and Feature Sizes from Noisy Point Clouds (T. Dey, J. Sun, L. Molnar)
• AMLS for Smoothing Noisy Point Clouds (adaptive moving least squares) (T. Dey, J. Sun)
• Cocone: Delaunay meshing of point sets with boundaries (T. Dey, J. Giesen)
• Tight Cocone: water-tight Delaunay meshing of point sets using approximate medial axis (T. Dey, S. Goswami, W. Zhao)
• SuperCocone: efficient Delaunay meshing of large point sets (T. Dey, J. Hudson)
• RobustCocone: Delaunay meshing of noisy point sets (T. Dey, S. Goswami)
• Peel: isotropic reconstruction of surfaces from point sets with or without boundaries (T. Dey, K. Li)
• 4-points Congruent Sets for Robust Surface Registration (D. Aiger, N. Mitra, D. Cohen-Or)
• CGAL (Poisson reconstruction, spacing estimation, simplification, outlier removal, smoothing, normal estimation, orientation estimation)[full packages list] (Authors)
• integral estimation on a k-manifold embedded in R-d (C. Luo, J. Sun, Y. Wang)
• discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator on point clouds [Page] (C. Luo, I. Safa, Y. Wang)
• FReg: detect approximate symmetries of point sets and B-Rep Models (Authors)
• Normal Improvement for Point Rendering (bilateral normal filtering) [Page] (T. Jones)
• Reconstruction of Solid Models from Oriented Points Sets (M.l Kazhdan)
• Poisson Surface Reconstruction (M. Kazhdan)
• Multilevel Streaming for Out-of-Core Surface Reconstruction (M. Bolitho, M. Kazhdan, R. Burns, H. Hoppe)

Curves and Surfaces

• A Bidirectional Generating Algorithm for Rational Parametric Curves (Z. Li, L. Ma)
• Fast Detection of the Geometric Form of Two-Dimensional Cubic Bézier Curves (S. Vincent)
• Exact Evaluation of Subdivision Surfaces (eigenstructures for Catmull-Clark and Loop schemes) (J. Stam)
• Exact Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces near B-Spline Boundaries (D. Lacewell, B. Burley)
• Smooth Two-Dimensional Interpolations: A Recipe for All Polygons (E. Malsch, J. Lin, G. Dasgupta)
  
• Normal Patches / PN-Triangles (R. Stimpson)
• Marching Cubes (.vol files) (R. Stimpson)
• Coons Patches (R. Stimpson)
• Exact Catmull-Clark Subdivision evaluation (and mean-curvature minimization) (F. Hecht)

Computational Geometry

• 2D voronoi diagrams with CGAL (P. Alliez)
• TRIANGLE: 2D high-quality exact/constrained/conforming Delaunay triangulations (J. Shewchuk)
• Stellar: a tetrahedral mesh improvement program (B. Klingner, J. Shewchuk)
• TetGen: A Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generator and a 3D Delaunay Triangulator (constrained/conforming Delaunay, Voronoi, boundary-conforming, quality/size control, adaptive mesh refinement, intersection testing) (H. Si)
• manifold approximation of 3D medial axis (S. Yoshizawa)
• CGAL (n-D geometry, 2D/3D spherical geometry, n-D convex hull, 2D/3D/spherical booleans, 2D minkowski sums, 2D polygon partition/offset/skeleton, 2D curve intersection, 2D/3D envelopes, 2D/3D triangulation, 2D/3D alpha shapes, 2D delaunay/voronoi/apollonius/conforming delaunay/conforming gabriel, 3D delaunay isosurfacing, 3D skin surface, n-D spatial data structures, bounding volumes, optimal distances, least-squares geometry fitting, 2D/surface function interpolation, kinetic data structures, AABB Tree, 3D periodic triangulations, tetrahedral meshing w/ implicit/volume/polyhedral boundaries) [full packages list] (Authors)
• METRO: measure differences between triangular meshes (Authors)
• BOOLE convert CSG to Brep (curved solid primitives, polygonal solids) (T. Culver)
• MAPC: exact manipulation of algebraic points and curves in the plane (D. Manocha, J. Keyser, T. Culver, M. Foskey, S. Krishnan)
• Fast Polygon Triangulation based on Seidel's Algorithm (A. Narkhede, D. Manocha)
• UNC GAMMA Collision Detection/Proximity Query Packages (penetration depth, intersection detection, tolerance verification, exact and approximate distance computation, separation distance, contact determination, Minkowski sums, Lin-Canny closest features, uniform grid spatial decomposition, OBB/Swept-Sphere/convex-hull bounding-volume hierarchies, polygon soups, rigid motion)
• DeformCD: collision detection for deformable models (M. Tang, D. Manocha)
• CurveSkel: 1D curve skeleton of 3D shape (T. Dey, J. Sun)
• Shortest paths on a polyhedral surface (B. Kaneva, J. O'Rourke)
• Antiprism polyhedra library (convex hull, polar reciprocals (dual meshes), geodesic spheres, uniform polyhedra, uniform tilings on surfaces, lattices and grids, ring/spiral of points on sphere, equilibrium of points repelling on sphere, near-uniform sphere tessellation, many other polyhedra types, OFF conversion utilities) [A. Rossiter]
• Nuages 3D delaunay mesh reconstruction from parallel cross-sections (B. Geiger)
• ShortLoop: computing loops in a shortest homology basis (O. Busaryev, T. Dey, J. Sun, Y. Wang)
• Coordinate Free Geometric Programming (S. Mann, N. Litke, T. DeRose)
• Calculation of Mappings between one and n-dimensional values using hilbert space-filling curve (J. K. Lawder)
• A Fast and Robust GJK Implementation for Collision Detection of Convex Objects (G. van den Bergen)
• Fast Distance Field and Generalized Voronoi Diagram Computation using Graphics Hardware (Authors)
• Efficient Collision Detection of Complex Deformable Models using AABB Trees (G. van den Bergen)

Intersections and Distances

• Fast 3D Line Segment—Triangle Intersection Test (N. Chirkov)
• An Efficient Ray-Quadrilateral Intersection Test (A. Lagae, P Dutre)
• On Faster Sphere-Box Overlap Testing (T. Larsson, T. Akenine-Moller, E. Lengyel)
• Fast Tetrahedron-Tetrahedron Overlap Algorithm (F. Ganovelli, F. Ponchio, C. Rocchini)
• Ray Bilinear Patch Intersections (S. Ramsey, C. Hansen, K. Potter)
• GPU-Based Tiled Ray Casting using Depth Peeling (F. Bernadon, C. Pagot, J. Comba, C. Silva)
• An Efficient and Robust ray-box intersection algorithm (A. Williams, S. Barrus, R. Morley, P. Shirley)
• A Fast Triangle-Triangle Intersection Test (T. Moller)
• Fast and Robust Triangle-Triangle Overlap Test using Orientation Predicates (P. Guigue, O. Devillers)
• A Fast Triangle-Triangle Overlap Test Using Signed Distances (H. Shen, Z. Tang)
• Fast Ray-Axis Aligned Bounding Box Overlap Tests with Plücker Coordinates (J. Mahovsky, B. Wyvill)
• Fast Ray/Axis-Aligned Bounding Box Overlap Tests using Ray Slopes (M. Eisemann, M. Magnor, T. Grotsch, S. Muller)
• Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection (T. Moller, B. Trumbore)
• Lightweight Bounding Volumes for Ray Tracing (D. Cline, K. Steele, P. Egbert)
• Fast and Accurate Circle-Circle and Circle-Line 3D Distance Computation (D. Vranek)
• A Shaft Culling Tool (E. Haines)
• Fast 3D Triangle-Box Overlap Testing (T. Akenine-Moller)
• Intersection Test for Collision Detection in Particle Systems (E.-A. Karabassi, G. Papaioannou, T. Theoharis, A. Boehm)
• Techniques for Interactive Ray Tracing of Bézier Surfaces (C. Benthin, I. Wald, P. Slusallek)

Photorealistic Rendering

• TAGL: software rasterizer (B. Levy)
• ShadeVis: compute per-vertex ambient occlusion term (Authors)
• MeshLab (vertex/face ambient occlusion) (Authors)
• LumosQuad (2D lighting simulation and rendering, quadtree conjugate gradient Poisson solver) (T. Kim, M. Lin)
• OpenEXR (read/write/view OpenEXR HDR images)
• bv (BRDF browser, many analytic and empirical BRDF included) (S. Rusinkiewicz)
• LightPack (light field authoring and rendering)
• aperture (light-field viewer)
• renderman shader to dump out grids (M. Pharr)
• skin shader (M. Pharr)
• raytracing quaternion julia sets on the GPU (K. Crane)
• radiosity renderers (progressive and wavelet radiosity, face cluster radiosity) (A. Willmott, P. Heckbert)
• Radiator radiosity system (matrix, progressive, wavelet, clustering) (A. Willmott)
• SunSky sun/sky model code (A. Willmott)
  
• brdfview BRDF viewer (P. Heckbert)
• SkyWorks real-time cloud rendering (M. Harris)
• SHLIGHT: spherical harmonic lighting program (T. Huang, I. Lisle)
• glSoftShadow OpenGL soft shadows implementation (U. Borgenstam, J. Svensson)
• Triangle Mesh Tangent Space Calculation (M. Mittring, Crytek)
• MiniLight minimal global illumination renderer (monte-carlo path tracing, progressive refinement, Ward linear tone mapping, octree spatial index) (H. Ainsworth)
• P3 ToneMapper (openEXR,RGBE in, PNG, PPM out, Ward tone mapping) (H. Ainsworth)
• Perceptuum global illumination renderer (monte carlo ray tracing, motion blur, DOF, glossy scattering, generalized BRDFS, progressive refinement, photon mapping) (H. Ainsworth)
• raytracing, path tracing, and distance-field rendering with CUDA (mxadd)
• Volumetric Lighting and Shadowing NV32 Shader (S. Lefebvre, S. Guy)
• Computing a View Frustum to Maximize an Object’s Image Area (K-L. Low, A. Ilie)
• BTFShop: Interactive Editing and Modeling of Bidirectional Texture Functions (J. Kautz, S. Boulos, F. Durand)
• Efficient Splatting Using Modern Graphics Hardware (D. Xue, R. Crawfis)
• Parameter Estimation for Photographic Tone Reproduction (E. Reinhard)
• Textured Shadow Volumes (J. Hasselgren, T. Akenine-Moller)
• Hardware-Accelerated Point Generation and Rendering of Point-Based Impostors (J. Baerentzen)
• Reducing Noise in Image-Space Caustics with Variable-Sized Splatting (C. Wyman, C. Dachsbacher)
• Robust Soft Shadow Mapping with Backprojection and Depth Peeling (L. Bavoil, S. Callahan, C. Silva)
• Visibility Cuts shadows for Precomputed Radiance Transfer (also Ashikhmin-Shirley shader) (F. Hecht)
• Frequency Analysis and Sheared Reconstruction for Rendering Motion Blur (K. Egan, Y.-T. Tseng, N. Holzschuch, F. Durand, R. Ramamoorthi)
• PCA-Based Relighting Framework (S. Enrique, R. Ramamoorthi)
• Layered 3D: Tomographic Image Synthesis for Attenuation-based Light Field and High Dynamic Range Displays (G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar)
• Spark: Modular, Composable Shaders for Graphics Hardware (T. Foley, P. Hanrahan)

NonPhotorealistic Rendering

• rtsc: suggestive contours/highlights, principal hilights, apparent ridges, etc (D. DeCarlo, A. Finkelstein, S. Rusinkiewicz, A. Santella, M. Burns, J. Klawe)
• fast and robust detection of crest lines on meshes (mesh denoising, mesh curvature) (S. Yoshizawa)
• xshade: exaggerated shading rendering (S. Rusinkiewicz, M. Burns, D. DeCarlo)
• jot: NPR library
• Weighted Voronoi Stippling (A. Secord)

Visualization

• Visualizing LIDAR in Google Earth (M. Isenburg, J. Shewchuck)
• farthest-point seeding for placement of streamlines in 2D vector fields with CGAL (A. Mebarki)
• VolPack (fast volume rendering with shear/warp factorization) (P. Lacroute)

Texturing

• FlexiStickers: Photogrammetric Texture Mapping using Casual Images (Y. Tzur, A. Tal)
• Texture filtering (bilinear, mipmap, elliptic-weighted average) [link to .h/.cpp at bottom of page] (M. Pharr)
• 3D Cellular Noise function (M. Pharr)
• Jump Map Texture Synthesis (S. Zelinka)
• Hybrid Texture Synthesis [Page] (A. Nealen, M. Alexa)
• Octree Textures on the GPU (S. Lefebvre)
• Parallel Controllable Texture Synthesis Tutorial (S. Lefebvre)
• Image Quilting (T. Jones)
• Floating Textures (M. Eisemann)
• Advanced Reaction-Diffusion Models for Texture Synthesis (A. Sanderson, R. Kirby, C. Johnson, L. Yang)
• HWB - A More Intuitive Hue-Based Color Model (A. R. Smith, E. R. Lyons)
• Efficient GPU-Based Texture Interpolation using Uniform B-Splines (D. Ruijters, B. ter Haar Romney, P. Suetens)
• Texture Stitching by Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami Operator by Restricting 3D Functions (M. Kazhdan)
• Filtering Solid Gabor Noise (A. Lagae, G. Drettakis)

Simulation / Animation

• Inverse Kinematics for Serial Manipulators (D. Manocha, Y. Zhu)
• El Topo (robust surface tracking with triangle meshes) (T. Brochu, R. Bridson)
• CMU .ASF/.AMC/.V tools (J. McCann, C. Twigg, J. Barbic, ...?)
• Skinning Mesh Animations Demo (C. Twigg)
• DANCE (physics-based character animation and simulation) (A. Shapiro, V. Ng-Thow-Hing, P. Faloutsos)
• Physically Based Simulation and Animation of Gaseous Phenomena in a Periodic Domain [Page] (A. Nealen)
• 2D Boiling Demo (CML coupled map atlas on GPU) (M. Harris, G. Coombe, T. Sheuermann, A. Lastra)
• Flo real-time 2D fluid simulation demo (Cg navier-stokes incompressible flow fixed no-slip boundaries) (G. James, M. Harris)
• Disease reaction diffuse demo (Cg, on surface) (G. James, M. Harris)
• GPU Ocean Surface Simulation [Page] (S. Lefebvre)
• Practical Parameterization of Rotations Using the Exponential Map (F. Grassia)
• A Simple Fluid Solver Based on the FFT (J. Stam)
• Computing the Moment of Inertia of a Solid Defined by a Triangle Mesh (M. Kallay)
• Fast and Accurate Computation of Polyhedral Mass Properties (B. Mirtich)
• Fast and Easy Reach-Cone Joint Limits (J. Wilhelms, A. Van Gelder)
• Asynchronous Contact Mechanics (D. Harmon, E. Vouga, B. Smith, R. Tamstorf, E. Grinspun)
• Generalized Biped Walking Control (S. Coros, P. Beaudoin, M. van de Panne)
• Locomotion Skills for Simulated Quadrupeds (S. Coros, A. Karpathy, B. Jones, L. Reveret, M. van de Panne)
• StVK: FEM Saint Venant-Kirchhoff deformable object library (J. Barbic)
• Mass Spring System: A general 3D mass-spring system (J. Barbic)
• Implicit Newmark and Central Differences Integrators for large deformation nonlinear FEM elasticity (J. Barbic)
• Large Modal Deformation Factory: Model reduction of StVK FEM deformable models (linear modes, arbitrary free boundary conditions, modal derivatives, mass and stiffness matrices, triangle mesh to cube volume mesh conversion) (J. Barbic)
• harmonic oscillator: exact timestepping of 1D ODE (J. Barbic)
• LQR: linear-quadratic regulator controller (solves Riccati differential equation) (J. Barbic)
• Dynamics of a single rigid body (explicit Euler, symplectic Euler, time-varying external forces and torques, arbitrary inertia tensors) (J. Barbic)

2D

• real-time gradient-domain image painting (multigrid GPU poisson solver) (J. McCann, N. Pollard)
• mean-value coordinate image cloning (Z. Farbman, G. Hoffer, Y. Lipman, D. Cohen-Or, D. Lischinski)
• GraphDraw: draw 2D graphs and export as postscript (K. Crane)
• Interactive Segmentation Tool-Box (lazy snapping, GrabCut interactive graph cut)
• 3D Photo Pop-Up (D. Hoeim)
• Anti-Grain Geometry Project (high-quality and efficient 2D software rasterizer: subpixel antialiasing, arbitrary polygons, gradients and gouraud shading, image filtering, bilinear, bicubic, spline16, spline32, sinc, blackman, strokes with joins and caps, dashed lines, head/tail markers, arrows, polygon clipping, alpha-masking, arbitrary images as line patterns, perspective and bilinear transformations, boolean polygon operations) (M. Shemanarev)
• High Quality Hardware Line Antialiasing (R. Nelson)
• Color Compatibility from Large Datasets (P. O'Donovan, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann)
• 2.5D Cartoon Models (A. Rivers, T. Igarashi, F. Durand)
• GradientShop: A Gradient-Domain Optimization Framework for Image and Video Filtering (P. Bhat, L. Zitnick)

Data Structures and Compression

• Efficient Normal Compression in CryENGINE 3 [PPTX] [PDF] (texture and code in slides) [Page] (A. Kaplanyan)
• Triangle Strip Compression (M. Isenburg)
• Out-of-Core Compression for Gigantic Polygon Meshes (M. Isenburg, S. Gumhold)
• Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes (M. Isenburg, P. Lindstrom, J. Snoeyink)
• Streaming Compression of Tetrahedral Volume Meshes (M. Isenburg, P. Lindstrom, S. Gumhold, J. Shewchuck)
• Streaming Compression of Delaunay Triangulations (M. Isenburg, Y. Liu, J. Shewchuck, J. Snoeyink)
• LAStools: converting, viewing, and compressing LIDAR data in LAS format (M. Isenburg, J. Shewchuck)
• Streaming Meshes (M. Isenburg, P. Lindstrom)
• OpenRACM: Random-Accessible Compressed Meshes (S.E. Yoon, P. Lindstrom)
• An Improved Adjacency Data Structure for Fast Triangle Stripping (P. Reuter, J. Behr, M. Alexa)
• Simple and Efficient Traversal Methods for Quadtrees and Octrees (S. Frisken, R. Perry)
• Octree implementation (H. Ainsworth)
• Fast Generation of Pointerless Octree Duals (T. Lewiner, V. Mello, A. Peixoto, S. Pesco, H. Lopes)

Image and Video Processing

• Adaptive Thresholding Using the Integral Image [Also](D. Bradley, G. Roth)
• A One-Pass Version of Two-Pass Image Resampling (N. Max)
• PDE-Based Image Filtering (Nonlinear diffusion, Total-Variation denoising, Shock Filters) (G. Gilboa)
• ImageStack: a command line calculator for images (HDR image generation, bilateral/median/circular filter, dimensionality reduction, FFT, Poission, wavelet transforms, inpainting, and many more) (A. Adams)
• Fast High-Dimensional Filtering Using the Permutohedral Lattice (A. Adams, J. Baek, A. Davis)
• Local Laplacian Filters: Edge-aware Image Processing with a Laplacian Pyramid (S. Paris, S. Hasinoff, J. Kautz)
• Domain Transform for Edge-Aware Image and Video Processing (E. S. L. Gastal, M. M. Oliveira)
• Real-time Edge Aware Image Processing with the Bilateral Grid (J. Chen, S. Paris, F. Durand)
• Bilateral Filter (J. Chen)
• Local Histogram Equalization using Bilateral Grid (J. Chen)
• Streaming Multigrid for Gradient-Domain Operations on Large Images (M. Kazhdan)
• Distributed Gradient-Domain Processing of Planar and Spherical Images (M. Kazhdan)
• Metric Aware Processing of Spherical Imagery (M. Kazhdan)
• An Image Inpainting Technique Based on the Fast Marching Method (A. Telea)

Sampling

• Efficient Generation of Poisson-Disk Sampling Patterns (T. Jones)
• Antimony (poisson-disk sample generation) (D. Dunbar, G. Humphreys)
• 2D Poisson disk sampling with dart throwing (M. Pharr)
• Random or Uniform points on a sphere [Page] (J. O'Rourke)
• Sampling with Hammersley and Halton Points (T.-T. Wong, P.-A. Heng, W.-S. Luk)
• A Low Distortion Map Between Disk and Square (P. Shirley, K. Chiu)
• 2D Fast Object Distribution (Halton sequence computation) [Page] (A. Willmott)
• Generalized Stratified Sampling Using the Hilbert Curve (M. Steigleder, M. McCool)
• A Stratified Sampling Technique for an Ellipse (C.-M. Wang, N.-C. Hwang)
• 2D Hilbert Curve Generator (also precomputed C++ arrays for orders 1-10) (J. Chen)
• Accurate Multi-dimensional Poisson-disc Sampling (M. Gamito, S. Maddock)

Numerics and Optimization

• CNC: CUDA sparse symmetric matrix solver (L. Buatois, G. Caumon, B. Levy)
• OpenNL: Open Numerical Library (direct/iterative sparse solvers, preconditioners, Least-Squares Conformal Maps (LSCM) implementation) (Authors)
• CGAL (LP linear programming, QP quadratic programming) (Authors)
• TAUCS [Package Mirror] (sparse preconditioned conjugate-gradient/minres, sparse Cholesky (sym-pos-semi-def), sparse LU, sparse LDLT) (S. Toledo, D. Chen, V. Rotkin)
• UMFPACK (unsymmetric sparse LU) (T. Davis)
• newmat (C++ dense matrix library [documentation]) (R. Davies)
• GPUFFTW (GPU power-of-two FFT library) (N. Govindaraju, D. Manocha)
• LUGPU (GPU dense-matrix LU decomposition) (N. Galoppo, N. Govindaraju, M. Henson, D. Manocha)
• CoMISo: Constrained Mixed Integer Solver (H. Zimmer, D. Bommes, L. Kobbelt)
• chag:pp CUDA parallel primitives library (reduction, prefix operations (scan), compaction, radix sort)
• Blossoming software for analyzing polynomial functions (S. Mann, W. Liu)
• Automatic Differentiation, C++ Templates, and Photogrammetry (D. Piponi)
• CMA-ES: Covariance Matrix Adaptation - Evolutionary Strategy (non-linear non-convex optimization in complex domains) (N. Hansen)
• ExpoKit: matrix exponential for small dense and large sparse matrices (R. B. Sidje)
• Modal Matrix: A class for modal matrix operations (assembly u=Uq, projection q = U^T u) (J. Barbic)
• Quaternions , MiniVector, Dense Matrix, Sparse Matrix (Conjugate Gradient, Jacobi Preconditioner, Gauss-Seidel ) (J. Barbic)
• Polar decomposition of a 3x3 matrix and derivatives of polar decomposition matrices (J. Barbic)

Data Sets

• Digital 210 King (building scans, Revit models, photographs, Green Building XML (gbXML) models, of 210 King St East (Autodesk Toronto building))
• Unwrapped (planar-parameterized) ABF++/LinABF Meshes (.OBJ format, includes normal maps and decimated meshes)
• http://shapes.aim-at-shape.net/
• DemoGraphite (bunny, horse, tiger-face, octaflower, rocker arm, engine volume, skull volume)
• Georgia Tech Large Geometric Models Archive (Bunny,Turbine Blade,skeleton hand,dragon,buddha,horse,visible man,grand canyon,puget sound,angel)
• Stanford 3D Scanning Repository (bunny, drill bit, buddha, dragon, armadillo, lucy, asian dragon, manuscript, thai statue)
• Stanford Volume Data Archive (CThead, MRBrain, CTbunny)
• Stanford Light Field Archive
• UNC Dynamic Mesh Datasets (per-frame meshes, exploding dragon and bunny, cloth simulation, N-body simulation, falling letters)
• Image-Based 3D Models (VRML/TRI formats, multiple resolutions, textured [mesh viewer]) (C. Esteban, F. Schmitt)
• Multi-frame 3D scans from video depthmaps (triangulated point clouds, OBJ format,100-2200 frames) (T. Weise, B. Leibe, L. Van Gool)
• ETH Face Pose Range Image Data Set (10,000 640x480 range image point sets of 20 moving faces, read/write code) (M. Breitenstein, D. Kuettel, T. Weise, L. van Gool, H. Pfister)
• Quadrangulations (fandisk,beetle,fertility,rockerarm) (H. Zimmer, D. Bommes, L. Kobbelt)
• Geometry Videos (H. Bricenno)
• PSU Near-Regular Texture Database (S. Lee, Y. Liu)
• CMU Motion Capture Database
• Skinning Mesh Animations data (horse, camel, elephant, chicken, snake ) (D. James, C. Twigg)
• Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes (horse, camel, cat, lion, faces, flamingo, elephant) (R. Sumner, J. Popovic)
• Mesh Ensemble Motion Graphs (D. James, C. Twigg, A. Cove, R. Wang)
• Cornell Light Measurement Data (light source spectra, filter and lens transmission spectra, camera response spectra, reflectance data)
  
• The Cornell Box
• RenderPark (HDR, galerkin radiosity, stochastic jacobi radiosity, hierarchical, clustering, view-importance, higher-order approximations, random walk radiosity, photon mapping, stochastic ray tracing, bi-directional path tracing) (P. Bekaert,F. de Laet, P. Peers, V. Masselus, J. Prikryl, P. Dutre, O. Ceulemans)
• RaVi (real-time raytracer) (M. Granz)
• WinOSi (iterative two pass optical simulation raytracing) (M. Granz)
• Scopia.es 3D models (home furnishing objects, buildings, plants, characters, .3ds, .blend, .sh3d, .obj) (C. Folch, Scopia.es)
• Crytek Sponza Model v2 (increased complexity, 3ds, OBJ formats, textures) (F. Meinl, Crytek)
• TrueMarble earth image dataset (multiple resolutions from 32km to 250m, PNG and geo-referenced GeoTIFF formats) (Unearthed Outdoors LLC)
• Volume-Meshed Models (Heart, Eiffel Tower, Basket, Bridge, Dragon, Horse, Dinosaur, 3D Spring, Beam) (J. Barbic)

Vision

• Stanford Calibration Grid Detector (V. Vaish)
• Color CRT Calibration for perception research (E. Olds, W. Cowan, P. Jolicoeur)
• ASIFT: A New Framework for Fully Affine Invariant Comparison (J.-M. Morel, G. Yu)
• SIFT++ (A. Vedaldi)
• SIFT for Matlab (A. Vedaldi)
• VLFeat (SIFT, MSER, k-means, hiearchical k-means, agglomerative information bottleneck (aib), quick shift) (A. Vedaldi, B. Fulkerson)
• LFDisplay: a real-time system for light field microscopy
• FCam: FrankenCamera camera control library(Contributors)

Machine Learning

• Infer.Net - Bayesian Inference in Graphical Models (T. Minka, J. Winn, J. Guiver, A. Kannan)
• ANN - C++ approximate neareset-neighbours in dimensions ~(8,20) (D. Mount, S. Arya)
• FLANN - Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbours (M. Muja, D. Lowe)
• Basic Support Vector Machine (SVM) demo (linear and RBF kernel) (A. Vedaldi)

Bits and Pieces

• HXA graphics library (halton sequence, sobol sequence, color space conversions, radiance RGBE IO, random number generators, 2D radial filters) (H. Ainsworth)

Matlab

• Array Manipulation Tips and Tricks
• Iain Murray's Tips and Tricks and utilities
• Marios Athineos Tips and Tricks
• Tom Minka's Lightspeed Toolbox

Latex

• Iain Murray's Latex Notes (squeezing)

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