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ray tracing: a standalone construct

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Computer graphics

rendering by following light rays from the eye into the scene and recursively through reflections and refractions.

In computer graphics, ray tracing refers to rendering by following light rays from the eye into the scene and recursively through reflections and refractions. This meaning comes from Whitted (1980) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Whitted, T. (1980). An improved illumination model for shaded display. Communications of the ACM, 23(6), 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1145/358876.358882

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