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  2. J. Turner Whitted - Wikipedia

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    John Turner Whitted is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who introduced recursive ray tracing to the computer graphics community with his 1979 paper "An improved illumination model for shaded display". [1] [2] His algorithm proved to be a practical method of simulating global illumination, inspired many variations, and is in wide ...

  3. Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    Optical ray tracing describes a method for producing visual images constructed in 3-D computer graphics environments, with more photorealism than either ray casting or scanline rendering techniques. It works by tracing a path from an imaginary eye through each pixel in a virtual screen, and calculating the color of the object visible through it.

  4. Hidden-surface determination - Wikipedia

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    Ray tracing Attempts to model the path of light rays to a viewpoint by tracing rays from the viewpoint into the scene. Although not a hidden-surface removal algorithm as such, it implicitly solves the hidden-surface removal problem by finding the nearest surface along each view-ray.

  5. Ray casting - Wikipedia

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    Ray-cast image of idealized universal joint with shadow. Ray casting is the methodological basis for 3D CAD/CAM solid modeling and image rendering. It is essentially the same as ray tracing for computer graphics where virtual light rays are "cast" or "traced" on their path from the focal point of a camera through each pixel in the camera sensor to determine what is visible along the ray in the ...

  6. Ray tracing (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Ray tracing of a beam of light passing through a medium with changing refractive index.The ray is advanced by a small amount, and then the direction is re-calculated. Ray tracing works by assuming that the particle or wave can be modeled as a large number of very narrow beams (), and that there exists some distance, possibly very small, over which such a ray is locally straight.

  7. Reflection (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    Ray-traced model demonstrating specular reflection. Reflection in computer graphics is used to render reflective objects like mirrors and shiny surfaces.. Accurate reflections are commonly computed using ray tracing whereas approximate reflections can usually be computed faster by using simpler methods such as environment mapping.

  8. Billy Ray Turner verdict: What happened in the courtroom - AOL

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    It took jurors less than three hours to find Billy Ray Turner guilty of murdering Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright in 2010.

  9. Ray tracing - Wikipedia

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    Ray tracing is a method for calculating the path of waves or particles through a system. The method is practiced in two distinct forms: The method is practiced in two distinct forms: Ray tracing (physics) , which is used for analyzing optical and other systems