The UNC Gamma Research Group (Geometric Algorithms for Modeling, Motion and Animation). http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq/

• intro to vertex shaders http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/10/28/9853/1617
• over view of programming systems suitable for kids (scratch, etoys, nodebox, etc+) http://livingcode.org/2008/the-importance-of-visual-programming

• Ron Fedkiw's papers > http://graphics.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/
• dvfx reading list > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dvfx/readings.html
• lighting preview > http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/siggraph_courses/s96_course30.pdf

also;: Information Visualisation / Surface Reconstruction