Textbook

None! This book is 'recommended', though: Alan Watt - 3D Computer Graphics [what it means is that the book will clarify a lot of topics covered in class; however, you are not expected to read it from an exam point-of-view, nor will there be assigned readings from the book].

We'll cover a lot of material during the lectures - not all of this will be in the slides, so be sure to show up for all the classes.

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Courses from a few other schools

Introductory CG/animation courses are offered at several schools across the US/Canada. Here's a small sampling:

• Ohio State
• UW
• UBC
• Cal State, Stanislaw
  
• Oregon State U.

• Stanford, CS448
• Caltech, cs171

If something is unclear from my lectures, feel free to consult such alternate sources of information. Wikipedia is also a good reference - eg. here is the entry on rendering.

Other books of interest

• pbrt - a great book/site, on building a modern renderer from scratch.
• Foley and van Dam [often considered the 'bible' of CG]
• Peter Shirley - Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
• Saty Raghavachary - RenderMan book [and this is the book's site]
• Rudy Cortes & Saty Raghavachary - RenderMan shading language book

Graphics groups, research(ers), papers..

As with other CS topics, graphics is an actively researched area. Here are some of the researchers and their work:

• USC CG
• Ken Perlin
• Paul Debevec
• Peter Schroder
• Ken Turkowski's papers
• James O'Brien's papers
• Henrik Wann Jensen's papers
• Ron Fedkiw
• Andrew Glassner
• Paul Bourke - treasure trove of 'fun' CG topics

There are three 'PH's in CG research:

• Paul Haeberli
• Pat Hanrahan
• Paul Heckbert

SIGGRAPH (**the** premiere, annual computer graphics conference!) publishes the best-of-the-best research papers each year. Here is a link ("gold mine"!) to papers from recent years. Browsing through them will give you a taste for the field, and also point out future research directions. SIGGRAPH also maintains these teaching resources by way of education/outreach.