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- Introduction to Ray Tracing - The introduce of ray tracing. Also known as ray casting, determines the visibility of surfaces by tracing imaginary rays of light from the viewer's eye to the objects in the scene.
- Ray tracing in Wikipedia - A overview non technical article on ray tracing also covering some history of the subject.
- Chuck's Ray Tracing Software - Personal page with links to programs for modeling, Ray tracing, converting, and animating. Plus models for various ray tracers. Windows, MacOS and Unix.
- ACM Crossroads: Ray Tracing - Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
- The Recursive Ray Tracing Algorithm - Explains how the basic ray tracing algorithm with reflection, transparency and shadows works.
- Ray Tracing Bibliography - Over 700 bibliographic references and some 300 abstracts from ray tracing related papers and books. Not updated since 1999 but much of the information is still useful.
- Ray Tracing News Guide - Lots of information on ray tracing. Updated once or twice a year.
- Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware - Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan evaluate trends in programmability of the graphics pipeline and explain how ray tracing can be mapped to graphics hardware.
- Coby's Ray-Traced Lego Mania - Coby revisits his childhood by ray-tracing his favorite Lego sets with POV-Ray. Most are Space themed sets from the early 1980s.
- Ray Tracing Introduction from SIGGRAPH - A basic introduction to building a ray tracer, with some pointers to more advanced subjects at the end.
Wikipedia Articles
- Distributed ray tracing - Distributed ray tracing, also called distribution ray tracing and stochastic ray tracing, is a refinement of ray tracing that allows for the rendering of "soft" phenomena.
- Ray tracing hardware - Ray tracing hardware is a special purpose computer hardware design for accelerating real-time ray tracing.
- Ray transfer matrix analysis - Ray transfer matrix analysis (also known as ABCD matrix analysis) is a type of ray tracing technique used in the design of some optical systems, particularly lasers. It involves the construction of a ray transfer matrix which describes the optical system; tracing of a light path through the system can then be performed by multiplying this matrix with a vector representing the ...
- OpenRT - The goal of the "OpenRT Real Time Ray Tracing Project" is to develop ray tracing to the point where it offers an alternative to the current rasterization based approach for interactive 3D graphics. Therefore the project consists of several parts: a highly optimized ray tracing core, the OpenRT-API, which is similar to OpenGL, and many ...
- Ray tracing - Ray tracing is a general technique from geometrical optics of modeling the path taken by light by following rays of light as they interact with optical surfaces. It is used in the design of optical systems, such as camera lenses, microscopes, telescopes and binoculars.