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Glossary

A helpful guide to some raytracing terms.

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  • AABB (Axis-Aligned Bounding Box):

  • CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry):

  • Normal:

  • Intersection:

  • UV mapping:

  • Bounding Boxes: an optimzation that provides a min/max tuple to hint to us if we should test any given shape, based on the shapes shapes and dimensions. If not, we can save the computation and time.

  • BVH (Bounding Volume Hierarchy): a tree of Bounding Boxes that can be traversed to determine if an intersection should be tested for any given shape in the tree.