Online Articles and Resources

Articles from the Valve Developer Community

• Phong Materials
• Normal Maps

Articles from Wikipedia

• Flat shading
• Gouraud shading
• Phong shading
• Specular Highlight
• Blinn-Phong Shading
• Texture mapping
• Bump mapping
• Normal mapping
• High Dynamic Range

Published Articles and Presentations

• Efficient Self-Shadowed Radiosity Normal Mapping, Chris Green
• Directional Lightmaps, Peter Houska
• A Planar Perspective Image Matching using Point Correspondences and Rectangle-to-Quadrilateral Mapping, Dong-Keun Kim and Byung-Tae Jang and Chi-Jung Hwang
• 3D Perspective Texture Mapping of Polygons in Real Time, Michael McMahon and Steven Collins
• Half-Life 2 / Valve Source Shading, Gary McTaggart, March 22, 2004
• Shading in Valve's Source Engine, Jason Mitchell, SIGGRAPH 2006
• In short words: 3D, Chapter 2: Texture Mapping
• 6.837 Rendering Intro Presentation, MIT Open Courseware