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Ray tracing (graphics)

Known as: Ray-trace, RT, Ray tracer 
In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating… 
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
A ray tracing solution for diffuse interreflection
An efficient ray tracing method is presented for calculating interreflections between surfaces with both diffuse and specular… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Ray tracing on programmable graphics hardware
Recently a breakthrough has occurred in graphics hardware: fixed function pipelines have been replaced with programmable vertex… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Spectrally optimal sampling for distribution ray tracing
Nonuniform sampling of images is a useful technique in computer graphics, because a properly designed pattern of samples can make… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Efficient ray tracing of volume data
Volume rendering is a technique for visualizing sampled scalar or vector fields of three spatial dimensions without fitting… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
An introduction to ray tracing
An Introduction to Ray Tracing is an excellent reference dedicated completely to ray tracing. Published in 1989, this book still… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Ray tracing complex scenes
A new algorithm for speeding up ray-object intersection calculations is presented. Objects are bounded by a new type of extent… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray Tracing
For almost two decades researchers have argued that ray tracing will eventually become faster than the rasterization technique… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
ARTS: Accelerated Ray-Tracing System
In this article we propose algorithms that address the two basic problems encountered in generating continuous-tone images by ray… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Distributed ray tracing
Ray tracing is one of the most elegant techniques in computer graphics. Many phenomena that are difficult or impossible with… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Space subdivision for fast ray tracing
An algorithm is described that speeds up ray-tracing techniques by reducing the number of time-consuming object-ray intersection… 
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