The recommended topics for the SIGGRAPH 1985 projects are listed below. Each paper is available from the compsci715 afs space, in the directory "SIGGRAPH 1985", with the filenames as listed. See also the course's resources page for ideas about where to look for more information about these papers.
Note that some papers are harder than others but that I will adjust my expectations to equalise workload for the groups.
I expect you to look up and at least skim the papers before Tuesday. Pick several that you'd like to work on -- we will have only one group per topic so you may not get your first choice.
Projects on other
The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments
Bounding Ellipsoids for Ray-Fractal Intersection
Statistically Optimized Sampling for Distributed Ray Tracing
Bintrees, CSG Trees, and Time
Blend Surfaces for Set Theoretic Volume Modelling Systems
Animating Rotation with Quaternion Curves
Construction of Fractal Objects with Iterated Function Systems
An Image Synthesizer
Visual Simulation of Clouds
Approximate and Probabilistic Algorithms for Shading and Rendering Structured Particle Systems