| 1987 | 1987 ACM/SIGGRAPH Achievement Award. Richard J. Beach |
| 1987 | 1987 Stephen A. Coon's Award. Richard J. Beach |
| 1987 | A muscle model for animation three-dimensional facial expression. Keith Waters |
| 1987 | A parallel processor architecture for graphics arithmetic operations. John G. Torborg |
| 1987 | A shading model for atmospheric scattering considering luminous intensity distribution of light sources. Tomoyuki Nishita, Yasuhiro Miyawaki, Eihachiro Nakamae |
| 1987 | A two-pass solution to the rendering equation: A synthesis of ray tracing and radiosity methods. John R. Wallace, Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg |
| 1987 | Accurate triangulations of deformed, intersecting surfaces. Brian Von Herzen, Alan H. Barr |
| 1987 | Adaptive forward differencing for rendering curves and surfaces. Sheue-Ling Lien, Michael Shantz, Vaughan R. Pratt |
| 1987 | An efficient new algorithm for 2-D line clipping: Its development and analysis. Tina M. Nicholl, D. T. Lee, Robin A. Nicholl |
| 1987 | Bidirectional reflection functions from surface bump maps. Brian Cabral, Nelson L. Max, Rebecca Springmeyer |
| 1987 | Boundary evaluation of non-convex primitives to produce parametric trimmed surfaces. Gary A. Crocker, William F. Reinke |
| 1987 | Character generation under grid constraints. Roger D. Hersch |
| 1987 | Controlling dynamic simulation with kinematic constraints. Paul M. Isaacs, Michael F. Cohen |
| 1987 | Direct least-squares fitting of algebraic surfaces. Vaughan R. Pratt |
| 1987 | Discrete Beta-splines. Barry Joe |
| 1987 | Efficient algorithms for 3D scan-conversion of parametric curves, surfaces, and volumes. Arie E. Kaufman |
| 1987 | Elastically deformable models. Demetri Terzopoulos, John C. Platt, Alan H. Barr, Kurt W. Fleischer |
| 1987 | Energy constraints on parameterized models. Andrew P. Witkin, Kurt W. Fleischer, Alan H. Barr |
| 1987 | FRAMES: Software tools for modeling, rendering and animation of 3D scenes. Michael Potmesil, Eric M. Hoffert |
| 1987 | Fast ray tracing by ray classification. James Arvo, David Blair Kirk |
| 1987 | Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model. Craig W. Reynolds |
| 1987 | GRAPE: An environment to build display processes. Tom Nadas, Alain Fournier |
| 1987 | Generating antialiased images at low sampling densities. Don P. Mitchell |
| 1987 | Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. William E. Lorensen, Harvey E. Cline |
| 1987 | Planar 2-pass texture mapping and warping. Alvy Ray Smith |
| 1987 | Principles and applications of pencil tracing. Mikio Shinya, Tokiichiro Takahashi, Seiichiro Naito |
| 1987 | Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. John Lasseter |
| 1987 | Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1987, Anaheim, California, USA, July 27-31, 1987 Maureen C. Stone |
| 1987 | Ray tracing JELL-OTM Brand Gelatin. Paul S. Heckbert |
| 1987 | Ray tracing complex models containing surface tessellations. John M. Snyder, Alan H. Barr |
| 1987 | Real-time manipulation of texture-mapped surfaces. Masaaki Oka, Kyoya Tsutsui, Akio Ohba, Yoshitaka Kurauchi, Takashi Tago |
| 1987 | Rectangular convolution for fast filtering of characters. Avi C. Naiman, Alain Fournier |
| 1987 | Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps. William T. Reeves, David Salesin, Robert L. Cook |
| 1987 | Set operations on polyhedra using binary space partitioning trees. William C. Thibault, Bruce F. Naylor |
| 1987 | Shading bicubic patches. Michael Shantz, Sheue-Ling Lien |
| 1987 | The Reyes image rendering architecture. Robert L. Cook, Loren C. Carpenter, Edwin E. Catmull |
| 1987 | The zonal method for calculating light intensities in the presence of a participating medium. Holly E. Rushmeier, Kenneth E. Torrance |