spraff
Reputation: 33425
Timeline of rendering techniques?
I'm looking for a historical overview of computer graphics developments, a timeline of such things as
- bump mapping
- bloom
- stencil buffer shadows
- volumetric fog
- subsurface scattering
- radiosity
- etc, the more inclusive the better
according to when they were invented and when they became practical for real-time mainstream use.
Hopefully this research would include an analysis of how much the end result has been improved by the invention of new techniques versus better algorithms for old techniques versus simply applying them more extensively given improving hardware.
Got any links for this sort of thing? Thanks.
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