ray tracing
Ray tracing is a computer graphics technique that accurately simulates the behavior of light by tracing rays of light from a virtual camera into a scene, calculating their interactions with objects, and producing realistic and detailed images with lifelike lighting and reflections.
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- geometrical optics
- global illumination in ray tracing
- hybrid rendering using ray tracing
- industry applications of ray tracing
- light refraction
- path tracing in ray tracing
- ray intersection algorithms
- ray tracing acceleration structures
- ray tracing for architectural visualization
- ray tracing in computer graphics
- ray tracing in video games
- ray tracing lighting algorithms
- ray-traced ambient occlusion
- ray-traced caustics
- ray-traced image synthesis
- ray-traced reflections
- ray-traced refractions
- ray-traced shadows
- ray-tracing hardware and gpus
- ray-tracing software libraries
- real-time ray tracing
- reflected light
- scientific and engineering applications of ray tracing