Visibility

• Ivan E. Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, and Robert A. Schumacker
  A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms.
  ACM Comput. Surv. 6, 1 (March 1974), 1-55.
  

• N. Gharachorloo, S. Gupta, R. F. Sproull, and I. E. Sutherland.
  A characterization of ten rasterization techniques.
  SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 23, 3 (July 1989), 355-368.
  

• John Snyder and Jed Lengyel.
  Visibility sorting and compositing without splitting for image layer decompositions.
  In Proceedings SIGGRAPH 98

• Michael Potmesil and Eric M. Hoffert.
  FRAMES: Software tools for modeling, rendering and animation of 3D scenes
  SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 21, 4 (August 1987), 85-94.
  

• Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter, and Edwin Catmull.
  The Reyes image rendering architecture.
  SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 21, 4 (August 1987), 95-102.
  

• Lance Williams.
  Casting curved shadows on curved surfaces.
  SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 12, 3 (August 1978), 270-274. - PDF