Literature Review Assignments

Principal Graphics Literature Sources

The the following are the major sources for graphics-related literature:

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (conference proceedings only)

Computers and Graphics (C&G)

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)

You must create a document that verifies that you have discovered the library locations of these sources. Your document must include two bibliographic references (authors, title, page numbers, etc.) from each of these journals. The first of each pair must come from the current (not yet bound) issue of the journal, and the second must come from the older bound issues.

Choose the paper to reference based on your own birthday, using your day of the year of your birthday, if possible. (The day_of_year for a February 10 birthdate is 41, for example.) If the journal page numbers are consecutive through the year, pick the article of the journal that starts closest to our day_of_year.

This technique won’t work for all journals and all birthdays. For example, some journals restart page numbering with every issue, so many day_of_year birthdates would be far greater than the last page number in any issue. If for any reason, the day_of_year technique doesn’t work, pick the issue whose month is nearest your birth month, and pick the article that starts closest to the page that is your day_of_month.

For Computer Graphics, select your article only from an issue that is a conference proceedings. The most important of these is the Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Conference (earlier this was Number 3, but since 1992 it has been a special unnumbered Conference issue).

If you know how to use bib or bibtex, you may use one of their standard formats for your citations. Otherwise, prepare your bibliographic references using the bibliographic style from IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. This style orders authors names with initials followed by last name, puts quotes around article names, italicizes journal names, etc. Below is an example:

A. Fournier, D. Fussell, and L. Carpenter, "Computer Rendering of Stochastic Models", Comm.ACM, Vol. 25, No. 6, June 1982, pp. 371-384.

You must turn in three brief summaries of two technical papers you will read from current computer graphics literature. The purpose is to expose you to reading computer graphics literature and writing about it. You must select a primary paper of your choice from a recent (since 1995) issue of one of the publications above. You must also select a secondary paper from those cited in the bibliography of the primary paper. Note the secondary paper can come from any journal and can have any date. Both papers, however must be "real" papers and not news articles or other fluff. You must read both papers and write a short (4-5 page) review of the topics covered by both papers with particular attention paid to how the two papers are related. This is not an exercise in copying words from the papers. You must use your own words to summarize and compare. You will be graded on both content and writing quality.

Your review should give a sense of the general problem domain and how the 2 papers fit into that domain. It usually makes sense to describe the secondary paper first, since it will have been published prior to your primary paper.

Please turn in 2 copies of your review as well as 1 copy of each of the 2 articles you reviewed in class on October 4, October 30, and November 15

For the second and third reviews you will each read and comment upon another student's literature review. You may simply mark the original review with handwritten (legible) corrections and comments. These are due on November 1 and November 17. Your evaluation should include comments on both the content and presentation.

You will use the student review of your paper (and your own re-reading of it) to revise and resubmit. These are due on November 3 and November 20.