Turner Whitted

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Turner Whitted is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Turner Whitted has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 20 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Turner Whitted's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (29 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (11 papers). Turner Whitted is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (29 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (11 papers). Turner Whitted collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Turner Whitted's co-authors include Steven M. Rubin, G. Scott Owen, Barbara Mones-Hattal, Marc Levoy, J.F. Blinn, David M. Weimer, Loren Carpenter, Gregory Abram, Henry Fuchs and Andrei State and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Communications of the ACM and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Turner Whitted

45 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An improved illumination model for shaded display

1980 1.1k citations Turner Whitted Communications of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Turner Whitted United States	21	2.2k	1.9k	1.4k	187	186	47	3.1k
John Snyder United States	34	3.5k 1.6×	3.1k 1.7×	2.1k 1.5×	233 1.2×	156 0.8×	82	4.5k
Tomoyuki Nishita Japan	34	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	109 0.6×	296 1.6×	196	3.9k
Derek Nowrouzezahrai Canada	30	1.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	144 0.8×	171 0.9×	113	3.0k
James Arvo United States	27	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	848 0.6×	115 0.6×	116 0.6×	46	2.2k
Li‐Yi Wei United States	36	2.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	408 2.2×	145 0.8×	102	4.4k
Wojciech Jarosz United States	34	2.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	945 0.7×	102 0.5×	175 0.9×	123	2.9k
François X. Sillion France	33	2.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	99 0.5×	390 2.1×	83	4.1k
Luiz Velho Brazil	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	123 0.7×	88 0.5×	190	2.7k
Stephen R. Marschner United States	16	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	58 0.3×	71 0.4×	18	2.7k
Olga Sorkine United States	39	2.7k 1.2×	3.7k 2.0×	3.1k 2.1×	246 1.3×	62 0.3×	78	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Turner Whitted

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Fields of papers citing papers by Turner Whitted

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Turner Whitted

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Turner Whitted. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Turner Whitted based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Turner Whitted. Turner Whitted is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Whitton, Mary C., Montek Singh, Greg Welch, et al.. (2019). Implementation and Evaluation of a 50 kHz, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$28\mu\mathrm{s}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> Motion-to-Pose Latency Head Tracking Instrument. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 25(5). 1970–1980. 7 indexed citations

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Spjut, Josef, et al.. (2016). 8‐3: Hybrid Modulation for Near Zero Display Latency. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 47(1). 76–78. 4 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner & James T. Kajiya. (2005). Fully procedural graphics. 81–90. 8 indexed citations

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Platt, John, et al.. (2000). Displaced Filtering for Patterned Displays. 296–299. 42 indexed citations

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Levoy, Marc & Turner Whitted. (2000). The Use of Points as a Display Primitive. 230 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (2000). Overview of IBR: software and hardware issues. 1–4 vol.2. 3 indexed citations

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Glassner, Andrew & Turner Whitted. (1999). Fiction 2000. 161–161. 3 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (1998). Personal image generators. 261–273. 1 indexed citations

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Eberly, David H., et al.. (1998). Designing a PC game engine. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 18(1). 46–53. 71 indexed citations

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Owen, G. Scott, Turner Whitted, & Barbara Mones-Hattal. (1997). Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. 414 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner & Robert L. Cook. (1988). A comprehensive shading model. 232–243. 1 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Loren, et al.. (1988). Scan line methods for displaying parametrically defined surfaces. 94–105. 2 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner, et al.. (1988). What can we learn by benchmarking graphics systems? (panel session). ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 22(4). 348–348. 1 indexed citations

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Amburn, P., et al.. (1986). Managing geometric complexity with enhanced procedural models. 189–195. 6 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (1983). Anti-aliased line drawing using brush extrusion. 151–156. 46 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (1982). Processing Requirements for Hidden Surface Elimination and Realistic Shading.. 245–250. 2 indexed citations

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Rubin, Steven M. & Turner Whitted. (1980). A 3-dimensional representation for fast rendering of complex scenes. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 14(3). 110–116. 136 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (1980). An improved illumination model for shaded display. Communications of the ACM. 23(6). 343–349. 1107 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whitted, Turner. (1978). A scan line algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces. 26–26. 29 indexed citations

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Whitted, Turner. (1978). A scan line algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 12(3). 26–26. 6 indexed citations

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