The Vectorization of a Ray-Tracing Algorithm for Improved Execution Speed

An improved illumination model for shaded display

Turner Whitted · Communications of the ACM · 1980 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Ray casting for modeling solids

Scott D Roth · Computer Graphics and Image Processing · 1982 · 606 citations

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A Testbed for Realistic Image Synthesis

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Ray tracing parametric patches

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3-D Visual simulation

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