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		dualogy on July 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interactive real-time raytracing in WebGL Raytracing is a very broad family of algorithms, path tracing is certainly "a raytracing algorithm".

ilaksh on July 20, 2014 [–]

Seems like they are similar but different.

huuu on July 20, 2014 | [–]

Raytracing is the art of tracing a ray.

Pathtracing is the art of tracing paths of rays using raytracing.

ilaksh on July 20, 2014 | | [–]

Is it an art or a specific technique used in 3d computer graphics rendering?

huuu on July 21, 2014 | | [–]

Both ;)

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