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The 17 pages that link to Ray tracing, each with the reason it gives.

• Radiative transferCompared with: It tracks paths geometrically, while radiative transfer also accounts for distributed emission and interactions.

• Graphics processing unitRelated: GPUs accelerate its many independent ray and intersection calculations.

• Atmospheric refractionRelated: Atmospheric optics models integrate ray paths through measured temperature and pressure profiles.

• RasterizationCompared with: It computes visibility and lighting through ray-scene intersections rather than triangle coverage.

• LensRelated: It makes lens imaging understandable through geometrical paths.

• Surface normalRelated: At ray–surface hits, normals determine reflection, refraction, and shading directions.

• Multipath propagationRelated: It estimates the routes and delays that create multipath in structured environments.

• Spherical aberrationRelated: Tracing rays through different surface zones reveals their separated focal positions.

• Virtual imageRelated: Backward extensions of outgoing rays locate where a virtual image appears.

• Convex lensRelated: Principal rays show where a convex lens forms a real or virtual image.

• ShaderRelated: Ray-tracing shaders define how rays interact with materials and how hit points are shaded.

• 3D computer graphicsRelated: It produces shadows, reflections, and indirect lighting by simulating light transport.

• Real-time renderingRelated: Hardware acceleration has brought selected ray-traced effects into interactive rendering.

• Graphics cardRelated: Modern cards can accelerate ray tracing for more physically realistic images.

• Hardware accelerationRelated: GPU ray-tracing units accelerate recurring geometric intersection calculations.

• Line–line intersectionRelated: Ray–line and ray–surface intersection tests determine where simulated light paths hit geometry.

• Electromagnetic field calculationsCompared with: It can estimate propagation efficiently when solving the full wave field is unnecessary.