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1 History of Ray Tracing R. Hoetzlein Department of Architecture and Media Technology Aalborg University

2 Early History 1979 Turner Whitted, before raytracing

3 1980 Turner Whitted, “An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display”

4 1986 James Arvo. Backtracing. Bi-direction ray tracing for caustics.

5 1984 Porter Thomas. With Robert Cook. “Distributed Ray Tracing”

6 1984 Porter Thomas – compared to modern renderings

7 1984 Eric Haines. Cornell Program of Computer Graphics

8 1987 Eric Haines. Cornell Program of Computer Graphics

9 1986 Eric Haines. Ray tracing with Light Buffers.

10 Eric Haines. Cornell Program of Computer Graphics

11 James Arvo. Cover for Communicaitons of the ACM

12 1990 Cornell Theory Center. Modeled from blue prints
1990 Cornell Theory Center. Modeled from blue prints. Some of the first large scenes.

13 Raytracing in Film 1985 Gary Demos. Ray tracing in film The Last Starfighter. Warner Bros. Cray X-MP Supercomputer, 27 mins

14 1989 The Abyss

15 1991 Terminator 2. James Cameron

16 1994 Free software, POV-Ray. “Screwdrivers”

17 1994 Free software, POV-Ray. “Brenkku”

18 1996 Matt Phar. Displacement Mapped Ray Tracing

19 1996 Matt Phar. Displacement Mapped Ray Tracing

20 1997 Matt Phar. Memory and Ray Tracing

21 1991 Cornell. Dinning Car.

22 1986 Eric Haines. Kitchen scene.

23 The Modern Era 2004 James Vives Piqueres. The Kitchen.

24 2011 Mike Kunde, Kitchen

25 2011 Grayson / Castleview, Kitchen.

26 2010 Hao Aiqiang, Stilleben.

27 1633 Pieter Claesz, Still Life

28 2010 Kornel Ravadits, Homage to Pieter Claesz.

29 2010 Hao Aiqiang, Stilleben II.

30 2010 Hao Aiqiang, 1981

31 2000 Gilles Tran, Cool Cows.

32 2001 Gilles Tran, Mouille.

33 2005 James Piqueres, Chistmas Baubble.

34 2002 Christoph Hormann, Marbles

35 2008 Tim Babb, Recursive.

36 Matt Phar

37 2003 Eichenberg, Blob Study

38 1943 Yves Tanguy, Multiplication of the Arcs

39 2005 Newt, Dissolution

40 2004 Coby Basset, SP Striker (LEGO).

41 Stefan Schulze, White Lion

42 2004 Tor Olav Kristensen

43 2003 Samuel Benge, Techno Garb

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