7 Best Articles on Computer Graphics
The most useful articles on computer graphics from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Computer Graphics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on computer graphics by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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Goodbye Uncanny Valley
It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real... but not quite. After decades of innovation,…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on computer graphics—all under 10 minutes.
What magic can teach us about the future of technology, according to an MIT magician
At the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology, like drones…
‘The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmings’: the inside story of an iconic video game
Dodgy graphics, mysteriously sourced computers and a bemused artist: a new Youtube documentary celebrates 30 years since the release of computing classic Lemmings
Pixar’s computer graphics pioneers have won the $1 million Turing Award
Two men who invented game-changing 3D computer graphics techniques now widely used in the film industry have won the highest distinction in computer science: the Turing Award.
Guess Who Made Computers The Design Tools They Are Today? Women
California designers Zuzana Licko, April Greiman, and Susan Kare influenced a generation of graphics.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on computer graphics.
Journey to Lumen
Real-time GI was always a holy grail of computer graphics. Over the years there were multiple approaches to this problem. Usually constraining problem domain by leveraging certain assumptions like …
Alvy Ray Smith is out to change how you think about pixels
The computer graphics pioneer and Pixar cofounder’s new book is about way more than computer graphics and Pixar.
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