The workshop was co-sponsored by the Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research of the National Science Foundation (through grant number ASC-9523483), by ACM-SIGGRAPH, and by the NSF Graphics and Visualization Center (ASC-8920219). This joint sponsorship enabled generous subsidy of the event costs to make the event affordable for students and international attendees.

The format of the workshop provided six primary sessions on topics central to current research in rendering and the closely related fields of perception and measurement. Many additional opportunities were provided for small group interaction over the three days of the workshop, including breakout sessions on image based rendering, perception, global illumination, and measurement.

The workshop also included a tour of the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell. Photos from this event and others at the workshop can be viewed in the workshop gallery.

Workshop Talks

The Rendering Problem

Andrew Glassner Graphics Group Microsoft Research	Rendering 201 (talk delivered by Peter Shirley due to illness)
Alain Fournier University of British Columbia	The Tiger Experience
Turner Whitted Hardware Devices Research Group Microsoft Research	The Rendering Problem Part II: Architectures

Dealing with Complexity

Anselmo Lastra Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	All the Triangles in the World
Matt Pharr Department of Computer Science Stanford University	Rendering Natural Scenes with Generalized Object Instancing
Richard Bukowski Firewalk/Citywalk Group UC Berkeley & MIT	A Perspective on Managing Complexity in Large-Scale Architectural Environments
Francois Sillion iMAGIS/INRIA Grenoble, France	Rendering a Complex World

Geometry Acquisition

Dan Huttenlocher Department of Computer Science Cornell University	Computer Vision for Recovering Information About Scene Geometry
Jean-Yves Bouguet Computer Vision Research Group California Institute of Technology	3D Acquisition Using Shadows
Paul Debevec Computer Science Division University of California-Berkeley	Geometry Acquisition with Applications to Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting

Optical Measurements

Steve Marschner Microsoft Research Steve Westin Program of Computer Graphics Cornell University	Image-Based Reflectometry
Maria Nadal Optical Technology Division National Institute of Standards and Technology	Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Measurements at NIST
Kristin Dana Computer Vision Group Columbia University	Models and Measurements of 3D Textures

Perception and Rendering

Jim Ferwerda Program of Computer Graphics Cornell University	Varieties of Realism
Gary Meyer Department of Computer Science University of Oregon	Perceptually Based Approaches to Improved Rendering Efficiency
Dan Kersten Department of Psychology University of Minnesota	What is the Visual System Like? The Role of Computer Graphics"

Closing Session: A Dose of Reality

Larry Gritz Graphics R&D Pixar Animation Studios	Who's Afraid of "Advanced" Rendering?
Rob Shakespeare Department of Theatre and Drama Indiana University	A Dose of Reality ...
Eugene Fiume University of Toronto & Alias|Wavefront	On Realistic Industrial Rendering: Let it Go