Home Page of Tomas Akenine-Möller

Publications

Book

Tomas Akenine-Möller and Eric Haines, Real-Time Rendering, AK Peters Ltd,
2nd edition, July 2002. Approx. 880 pages. Check out its accompanying website.
(1st ed.: 512 pages, in print as of July 1999). Tomas_Akenine-Moller

Proceedings

Tomas Akenine-Möller and Michael McCool (eds.), Graphics Hardware 2004 proceedings, Grenoble, August 2004.

Conference Papers

	Thomas Larsson and Tomas Akenine-Möller, "A Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Generalized Collision Detection", Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulations, pp. 91-100, 2005.
	Jacob Ström and Tomas Akenine-Möller, "iPACKMAN: High-Quality, Low-Complexity Texture Compression for Mobile Phones", to appear in Graphics Hardware 2005.
	Petrik Clarberg, Wojciech Jarosz, Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Henrik Wann Jensen, "Wavelet Importance Sampling: Efficiently Evaluating Products of Complex Functions" accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2005.
	Samuli Laine, Timo Aila, Ulf Assarsson, Jaakko Lehtinen and Tomas Akenine-Möller, "Soft Shadow Volumes for Ray Tracing", ACM SIGGRAPH 2005. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Anders Wang Kristensen, Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Henrik Wann Jensen, "Precomputed Local Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Lighting Design" accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2005.
	Manfred Ernst, Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Henrik Wann Jensen, "Interactive Rendering of Caustics using Interpolated Warped Volumes'', Graphics Interface 2005, 2005.
	Timo Aila, and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``A Hierarchical Shadow Volume Algorithm'', Graphics Hardware 2004, pp. 15-23, August 2004. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Jacob Ström, and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``PACKMAN: Texture Compression for Mobile Phones'', to appear as a technical sketch at SIGGRAPH 2004, August 2004. See also our mobile graphics page.
	Ulf Assarsson, Michael Dougherty, Michael Mounier, and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``An Optimized Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm with Real-Time Performance'', Graphics Hardware 2003, pp. 33-40, p. 131, July 2003. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Ulf Assarsson, and Tomas Akenine-Möller ``A Geometry-based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm using Graphics Hardware,'' ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 511-520, July 2003. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Jacob Ström ``Graphics for the Masses: A Hardware Rasterization Architecture for Mobile Phones'' ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 801-808, July 2003. See also my mobile graphics page.
	Tomas Akenine-Möller and Ulf Assarsson, ``Approximate Soft Shadows on Arbitrary Surfaces using Penumbra Wedges,'' 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2002, pp. 309-318, June 2002. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Thomas Larsson and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``Collision Detection for Continuously Deforming Bodies,'' Eurographics 2001, short presentation, pp. 325-333, 2001.
	Jonas Lext and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``Towards Rapid Reconstruction for Animated Ray Tracing,'' Eurographics 2001, short presentation, pp. 311-318, 2001.
	Laura Downs, Tomas Möller, and Carlo Séquin, ``Occlusion Horizons for Driving Through Urban Scenery'', 2001 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, pp. 121-124, p. 256, March 2001.
	Tomas Möller and Carlo H. Séquin, Heuristic Backface Culling for Subdivision Surfaces, Visual Proceedings SIGGRAPH 2000 (sketch).
	Tomas Möller, ``Speed-Up Techniques for Soft Shadow Generation'', Proceedings of the XIV IMEKO World Congress, Volume IXB, Topical Workshop on Virtual Reality and Advanced Man-Machine Interfaces, pp. 152-157, Tampere, Finland, 1-6 June, 1997.
	Tomas Möller, ``Radiosity Techniques for Virtual Reality - Faster Reconstruction and Support for Levels of Detail'', Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization'96, pp. 209-216, Plzen, Czech Republic, 1996.

Journal Papers (or in books)

	Jon Hasselgren, Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Samuli Laine, ``A Family of Inexpensive Sampling Schemes'', to appear in Computer Graphics Forum, 2005.
	Jon Hasselgren, Tomas Akenine-Möller, and Lennart Ohlsson, ``Conservative Rasterization on the GPU'', to appear in GPU Gems II, 2005.
	Marta Löfstedt and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``An Evaluation Framework for Ray-Triangle Intersection Algorithms'', Journal of graphics tools, accepted. An early author version of the paper.
	Tomas Akenine-Möller and Timo Aila, ``Conservative and Tiled Rasterization Using a Modified Triangle Setup'', Journal of graphics tools, accepted.
	Tomas Akenine-Möller and Ulf Assarsson, ``On the Degree of Vertices in a Shadow Volume Silhouette'', journal of graphics tools, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 21-24, 2003. See also our shadow rendering page.
	Ulf Assarsson and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``Occlusion Culling and Z-fail for Soft Shadow Volume Algorithms'', The Visual Computer, to appear. Used to be called ``Interactive Rendering of Soft Shadows using an Optimized and Generalized Penumbra Wedge Algorithm,'' See also our shadow rendering page.
	Thomas Larsson and Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``Efficient Collision Detection for Models Deformed by Morphing,'' The Visual Computer, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 164-174, May 2003.
	Tomas Akenine-Möller, ``Fast 3D Triangle-Box Overlap Testing,'' journal of graphics tools, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 29-33, 2001.
	Jonas Lext, Ulf Assarsson, and Tomas Möller, ``A Benchmark for Animated Ray Tracing'', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, pp. 22-31, March/April 2001.

Ulf Assarsson and Tomas Möller, ``Optimized View Frustum Algorithms for Bounding Boxes'', paper (296 kB), journal of graphics tools, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 9-22, 2000.

John F. Hughes and Tomas Möller, ``Building an Orthonormal Basis from a Unit Vector'', short paper, journal of graphics tools, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 33-35, 1999.

Tomas Möller and John F. Hughes, ``Efficiently Building a Matrix to Rotate One Vector to Another'', journal of graphics tools, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1-4, 1999.

Tomas Möller, ``A Fast Triangle-Triangle Intersection Test'', paper (65 kB), journal of graphics tools, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 25-30, 1997.

Tomas Möller and Ben Trumbore, ``Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection'', journal of graphics tools, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 21-28, 1997.
(unfortunately, the references are gone in the pdf :( )

Tomas Möller, ``Faster Ray Tracing Using Scanline Rejection'', in Alan W. Paeth (editor), Graphics Gems V, chapter 5.3, page 242-257, AP Professional, Boston, 1995.

Tomas Möller, ``Fast Bitmap Stretching'', in David Kirk (editor), Graphics Gems III, chapter 1.1, page 3-7, AP Professional, Boston, 1992.

SIGGRAPH course

Jan Kautz, Marc Stamminger, Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Chan, Wolfgang Heidrich, Mark Kilgard, Real-Time Shadowing Techniques, full day course at SIGGRAPH 2004.

Technical Reports

Jonas Lext, Ulf Assarsson, and Tomas Möller, ``BART: A Benchmark for Animated Ray Tracing'', Technical Report 00-14, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, May 2000.

Ulf Assarsson and Tomas Möller, ``Optimized View Frustum Culling Algorithms'', Technical Report 99-3, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, March, 1999.

Tomas Möller, ``Real-Time, Full-Sphere, Per-Vertex Environment Mapping'', Prosolvia Clarus Technical Note #9702, October, 1997.

Tomas Möller, ``Short Note on Real-Time Reflections in Showroom'', Prosolvia Clarus Technical Note # 9701, September, 1997.

Tomas Möller and Jacob Ström, ``New Wave - A hardware implementation of wavelet decompression of digital video images'', Technical Report, Lund Institute of Technology, March 1995.

Tomas Möller, ``En empirisk metod för simulering av skärpedjup vid sammansättning av bilder av 3D-objekt'', Technical Report, Lund Institute of Technology, March 1995.

Presentations and lectures

Real-Time Shadows, with Eric Haines, lecture at Game Developer's Conference, 2001/03/23.

Real-Time Graphics Research at Chalmers, Mälardalen University, 2001/02/14.

Occlusion Horizons, CS/CE Winter Meeting, 2001/01/11.

Speed-Up Techniques for Real-Time Rendering -- or What makes your 3D video game fly, lecture in Marc Levoy's Introduction to Computer Graphics, 2000/11/09.

Aggressive Performance Optimizations for 3D Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2000 full day course, Haim Barad (organizer), Peter Baker, Eric Haines, Dean Macri, Tomas Möller, and Kim Pallister, 2000/07/25.

Theses

Tomas Möller, ``Real-Time Algorithms and Intersection Test Methods for Computer Graphics'', Ph.D thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, October 1998.

Tomas Möller, ``Speed-up Techniques for Computer Graphics'', Licentiat thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, December 1996.

Tomas Möller, ``Virtual Radiosity'', Master's thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology, September 1995.

Misc (web stuff, excerpts, Dr Dobbs)

Eric Haines and Tomas Möller, ``Triangle Intersection Tests'', in Dr. Dobbs Journal, August 2000 (Graphics Programming).

Eric Haines and Tomas Möller, ``Normal Transforms'', in GIGnews.com July 10, 2000.

Tomas Möller and Eric Haines, ``Occlusion Culling Algorithms'', excerpt from Real-Time Rendering, in Gamasutra, November 9, 1999.

Tomas Möller and Eric Haines, ``Special Effects'', partial excerpt (only includes ``Image-Based Rendering, Lens Flares, and Billboarding'') from chapter 6 from Real-Time Rendering, in GameDev.Net, 1999.