ACM Transactions on Graphics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer graphics. It was established in 1982 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Starting in 2003, all papers accepted for presentation at the annual SIGGRAPH conference are printed in a special summer issue of the journal. Beginning in 2008, papers presented at SIGGRAPH Asia are printed in a special November/December issue. In a 2008 ranking, the journal had the 5th highest impact factor in the field of computer science,and is the top journal in the field of computer graphics. A more recent ranking on 2017 by Thomson Reuters InCites gave the journal an impact factor of 4.088, placing it first among software engineering journals.ACM Transactions on Graphics publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas of computer graphics, including (but not limited to) the following.AnimationArtistic RenderingFont Rendering & TypographyGraphical Data CompressionImage-Based RenderingImage Warping & MorphingImplicit Curves & SurfacesInteractive TechniquesMeshed Geometry ProcessingMotion Capture & SynthesisNumerical MethodsParametric Curves & SurfacesPhotorealistic RenderingPhysically-Based ModelingProcedural Modeling & TexturingTexture SynthesisVisual SimulationVolumetric Modeling & Rendering