rays

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Editorial note

You send rays from the sun, rays from the camera, and try to connect them.

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A beam of light or radiation.

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noun

A beam of light or radiation.

noun

Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

noun

The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rays.

noun

A beam of light or radiation.

noun

Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

noun

The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

noun

A diminutive of the male given name Raymond, also used as a formal given name.

Example sentences

You send rays from the sun, rays from the camera, and try to connect them.

If it had too much shading (the shading rate was too low), many more rays will be sent.

Note that it isn't necessary at all to sort rays, although it can make things faster if done correctly.

Ray tracing is a more generic term that covers rendering techniques which trace rays between a camera and a scene.

Normal renderers are limited by memory, but as Hyperion traces millions of rays at the same time they can exploit coherence between rays and they can load in and subdivide geometry on demand.

It uses several rays traced from pixels in the camera bouncing randomly through the scene.

What method do they use to ensure only the rays that have the camera and sun as end points are rendered?

As the linked article mentions, the solution was to optimize a massively-parallel algorithm by finding coherent rays that can be efficiently calculated together.

Ray tracing is the art of tracing rays and detecting collision.

Also note that Disney isn't the first to consider sorting rays and tracing them at the same time, similar research was done in the 90s.

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For example, how does sorting rays following similar direction help?

Quote examples

"Disney uses a mix of Hyperion and RenderMan, as Hyperion is not useable for test renders, as it can take up to 15 minutes until a pixel will appear on the screen, as they trace millions of rays at the same time." None of the things you claim in this sentence are true.