ray tracing
noun
variants
or less commonly ray-tracing
or raytracing
computers
: a process of creating digital images that include a simulation of real-world illumination by calculating the paths that individual beams of light would travel to a viewer's eye in a depicted scene
So, what even is ray tracing? Well, it's an advanced and lifelike way of rendering light and shadows in a scene. … However, because ray tracing works by simulating and tracking every ray of light produced by a source of lighting, it kind of takes a lot of horsepower …—Jackie Thomas
Both companies eventually boasted that high-end graphical features such as ray-tracing would happen on smartphones.—C. Scott Brown
While traditional lighting (AKA rasterization) in games works by essentially using clever trickery to approximate believable lighting, raytracing behaves much more like real light, simulating the actual path light rays would take from their source to your eyes.—Napier Lopez
ray-tracing capabilities
a GPU with improved ray tracing performance
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