Welcome to the

1997 Sophomore College Ray Tracing Site

A Presentation by:
Charity Lu
Alex Roetter
Amy Schultz

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Ray Tracing
  • Purpose of Ray Tracing
  • Setup
  • How Ray Tracing Works
• Properties of Light Rays
  • Premises of Ray Tracing
  • Light-Object Intersection
• Types of Ray Tracing
  • Forward Ray Tracing
  • Backward Ray Tracing
  • Hybrid Ray Tracing
• Implementation
  • Intro to Basic Ray Tracing Algorithm
  • Sampling
    • Regular sampling
  • Ray - Surface Intersection Routines
  • Precision Problems
  • Color Calculation
• Effects
  • Shadowing
  • Reflection
  • Transparency
  • Refraction
• Aliasing
  • What aliasing is
  • Temporal Aliasing
  • Spatial Aliasing
  • Anti-Aliasing Techniques
    • Supersampling
    • Adaptive Supersampling - Monte-Carlo Sampling
    • Stochastic Ray Tracing / Distibuted Ray Tracing
    • Statistical Supersampling
• Optimizations
  • The Need for Optimizations
  • Techniques
    • Backwards Ray Tracing
    • Bounding Volumes
    • Space Subdivision
• Alternatives
  • Introduction
  • Ray Casting
  • Radiosity
• Applications
  • Architecture
  • Theatre and Television Lighting
  • Engineering
  • Animation
    • Optimizations
• Bibliography
• Links