tray_rust
Creative
ray tracer
SHOW HN2015
77points
5comments
#347of 2,565 in 2015
Top 14%of 2015 by points
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What HN said
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Called it a path tracer rather than a ray tracer, arguing the term implies Whitted-style rendering
From 1 comment
Path tracer. Ray tracer implies a Whitted Ray Tracer. This is clearly using Monte Carlo sampling and BRDFs to scatter rays using multi-bounce lighting (hence paths instead of rays)
banachtarski on HN