FuzzyPhoton

Raytracing reference

The raytracing reference gives short, easily-understood explanations of common terms encountered while writing a raytracing program, reading other people's comments on the subject, or looking at a raytracing webpage. The various terms are arranged alphabetically below. Please note that in the interests of readability, very common terms have often not been marked as cross-references even though they may have been defined elsewhere. If you need more information on that term, check the comprehensive index below or just click the first letter of the term in the menu at the top of the page and scroll down the page contents list.

Note: If you can't find the term you're looking for, it may a proper noun, i.e., the name of a product, program, organization or author. In that case, I advise you to check the page on raytracing programs. As a last resort, check the links page for items I may have links to, but have not listed here (or have forgotten to list, in which case please inform me!)

FuzzyPhoton

Raytracing reference

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Ambient light

Antialiasing

Area light

Artifact

B

Bezier curve

Bicubic patch

Bitmap

Blobby object

Boolean solid

Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH)

Bounding volume

Box object

B-spline

Bump mapping

C

Camera

Clipping

Colour

Cone

Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)

Coordinate system

Cubic

Cubic spline

Cylinder

D

Degree

Density map

Depth

Derivative

Diffuse

Dimension

E

Efficiency

Ellipsoid

Epsilon

Equation

F

Filter

Finite

Flat shading

Focal blur

Fog

Frame

G

Global illumination

H

Height field

Hidden surface

Hierarchy

Highlight

I

Incident

Index of refraction

Infinite

Inside

Integral

Intensity

Interpolation

Intersection

Isosurface

Iterative

J

Jitter

K

L

Lathe

Lens

Lighting model

Light source

M

Matrix

Mesh

Model

Monte Carlo

Motion blur