Many people thing computer graphics are a recent thing, but the math behind recreating reality in a virtual world is in fact long been a fascination with scholars. Real-Time Rendering has built a list of some papers dating back over 300 years from such names as Isaac Newton and James Maxwell that built the foundation of modern rendering technologies.
The Royal Society (full name: Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge) is marking the start of its 350th year by putting pdf versions of 60 notable papers from its journal, Philosophical Transactions (founded in 1665) on the web. Although all the selected papers are crucial to the history of science, I wanted to call out those particularly related to the fundamentals of rendering.
via Real-Time Rendering · Rendering-related papers of the past 350 years.
