Distributed ray tracing
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distributed-ray-tracing-264-6744518
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Distributed ray tracing
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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. Conventional ray tracing uses single rays to sample many different domains. For example, when the color of an object is calculated, ray tracing might send a single ray to each light source in the scene. This leads to sharp shadows, since there is no way for a light source to be partially occluded. Conventional ray tracing also
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Refinement of ray tracing that allows for the rendering of "soft" phenomena
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ray_tracing
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2020-04-16T08:57:50Z
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