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10 Unsolved Problems in Computer Graphics

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A collection of "unsolved problems" lists made by famous CG people.
These generally come by sets of 10 :^).

1966: Ivan Sutherland: in here (at begining) and here (2005' answers).
1977: Martin Newell and Jim Blinn
1987: Paul Heckbert
1991: SIGGRAPH panels: ultrashort summary here (middle) , official broken link.
Al Barr, F.P. Brooks, S. Card, J. Clark, S. Feiner, A.R. Forrest, Pat Hanrahan, A. van Dam
1998: Levoy's favorite: in Open problems in computer graphics (end).
1998: Jim Blinn, return: in Siggraph98 keynote (jump to 66%), IEEE CGnA article (also here).
2000: Jim Foley

More:

Fredo Durand (2016?) : Do Good Research !
Eugene Fiume (1998) : Solving the problems that count
Fabrice's (2008) list of Big Questions to be solved

references:

• I.E. Sutherland, "Ten Unsolved Problems in Computer Graphics,") Datamation, Vol. 12, No. 5, May 1966, pp. 22-27.
• M. Newell and J. Blinn, "The Progression of Realism in Computer Generated Images," ACM 77 Proc., Oct. 1977, pp. 444-448
• P. Heckbert, "Ten Unsolved Problems in Rendering," Workshop on Rendering Algorithms and Systems, Graphics Interface 87, April 1987,Toronto
• "Computer Graphics: More Unsolved Problems" F. Crow and S. Feiner, panel co-chairs, with A. Barr, F.P. Brooks, Jr., S. Card, J. Clark, A.R. Forrest, P. Hanrahan, A. van Dam, Computer Graphics (Proc. Siggraph 91), Vol. 25, No. 4, 1991, p. 363.
• James F. Blinn, "Ten More Unsolved Problems in Computer Graphics," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 86-89, 1998.
• "Getting There: The Ten Top Problems Left", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 66-68, Jan/Feb, 2000.

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