This is a non-inclusive, non-exhaustive reading list of topics. Use this as a starting point to find other relevant papers.

Isosurfaces

• W. E. Lorensen and H. E. Cline, Marching cubes: A high resolution 3d surface construction algorithm Siggraph 1987, pages 163-- 169. pdf notes courtesy of Alex Goriachev, www.cs.technion.ac.il/~u_shani/cs236807-S2/lectures-students/Marching%20Cubes.pdf], and pdf notes courtesy of Alla Sheffer.
• G.M. Nielson and B. Hamann, The Asymptotic Decider: Resolving the Ambiguity in Marching Cubes, IEEE Visualization 1991, pp 83--91, 1991.
• Allen van Gelder and Jane Wilhelms, Topological considerations in isosurface generation, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 13 , Issue 4 (October 1994), pages 337 - 375.
• Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert, Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics SIGGRAPH 97, pages 209 - 216.
• Greg Nielson, On Marching Cubes, IEEE TVCG, Vol. 9, No. 3, July-September, 2003, pages 283-297.
• view dependent, out of core, unstructured grids

Volume Visualization

• Nelson Max's tutorial on optical models
• Hanspeter Pfister, Bill Lorensen, Chandrajit Bajaj, Gordon Kindlmann, Will Schroeder, Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Ken Martin, Raghu Machiraju, Jinho Lee The Transfer Function Bake-Off, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 21, Issue 3, (May 2001), pp 16-22.
• Kwansik Kim and Alex Pang, Ray-based Data Level Comparisons of Direct Volume Rendering Algorithms in Scientific Visualization, Dagstuhl'97, edited by Hans Hagen, Gregory Nielson, and Frits Post, IEEE 1999, pp. 137-150, 347.
• Kwansik Kim and Alex Pang, A Methodology for Comparing Direct Volume Rendering Algorithms Using a Projection-Based Data Level Approach in Eurographics/IEEE TVCG Symposium on Visualization, May 1999, Vienna, Austria, pp. 87-98.
• Splatting notes courtesy of Jian Huang.

Flow/Vector Visualization

• Robert S. Laramee, Helwig Hauser, Helmut Doleisch, Benjamin Vrolijk, Frits H. Post, and Daniel Weiskopf, The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Dense and Texture-Based Techniques, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, pages 203-221.
• Vivek Verma, David Kao, and Alex Pang, Flow-Guided Streamline Seeding Strategy , IEEE Visualization '00, pp. 163-170, 552.
• Ronald Peikert and Martin Roth, The ``parallel vectors'' operator: a vector field visualization primitive IEEE Visualization '99, pages 263 - 270.
• Jarke J. van Wijk Image based flow visualization Siggraph 2002, pages 745 - 754.
• H. Theisel and H.-P. Seidel, Feature Flow Fields in Proc. Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym '03), 2003.
• James L. Helman and Lambertus Hesselink, Visualizing Vector Field Topology in Fluid Flows IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 11 , Issue 3 (May 1991), pages 36 - 46.
• H. Theisel, T. Weinkauf, H.-C. Hege and H.-P. Seidel, Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton of Complex 3D Vector Fields IEEE Visualization 2003, 2003.
• H. Theisel, T. Weinkauf, H.-C. Hege and H.-P. Seidel, Grid-Independent Detection of Closed Stream Lines in 2D Vector Fields Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, 2004.

Tensor Visualization

• Lambertus Hesselink, Yuval Levy, Yingmei Lavin, The Topology of Symmetric, Second-Order 3D Tensor Fields IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 3, No. 1, January-March 1997, pages 1-11.
• Thierry Delmarcelle and Lambertus Hesselink, Visualizing Second-Order Tensor Fields with Hyperstreamlines IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 13, Issue 4, July 1993, pages 25 - 33.
• Gordon Kindlmann and David Weinstein, Hue-Balls and Lit-Tensors for Direct Volume Rendering of Diffusion Tensor Fields IEEE Visualization 1999, pages 183 - 189.
• Gordon Kindlmann Superquadric Tensor Glyphs Joint Eurographics - IEEE TVCG Symposium on Visualization ("VisSym") 2004.
• David H. Laidlaw, Eric T. Ahrens, David Kremers, Matthew J. Avalos, Russell E. Jacobs, Carol Readhead, Visualizing diffusion tensor images of the mouse spinal cord IEEE Visualization 1998, pages 127 - 134.
• Xiaoqiang Zheng and Alex Pang, HyperLIC, IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. 249-256.
• Xiaoqiang Zheng and Alex Pang, Topological Lines in 3D Tensor Fields and Discriminant Hessian Factorization, submitted to IEEE TVCG.

Visualization Systems

• AMIRA introduction
• Steven G. Parker and Christopher R. Johnson SCIRun: a scientific programming environment for computational steering Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM), 1995
• The Visualization Toolkit
• AVS
• REINAS Visualization

Uncertainty Visualization

• Alex Pang, Craig Wittenbrink, and Suresh Lodha, Approaches to Uncertainty Visualization, The Visual Computer, Vol.~13, No.~8, 1997, pp.~370--390.
• Suzana Djurcilov, Kwansik Kim, Pierre Lermusiaux, and Alex Pang, Volume Rendering with Uncertainty Information
• Alison Luo, David Kao and Alex Pang, Visualizing Spatial Distribution Data Sets, VisSym'03, May 2003, pp. 29-38, 238.

Multivariate Visualization

• Alfred Inselberg and Bernard Dimsdale, Parallel coordinates: a tool for visualizing multi-dimensional geometry IEEE Visualization 1990 pages 361 - 378.
• XmdvTool

Information Visualization

• Daniel Keim's tutorial
• Statistics vs visualization manipulations

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