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Lecture 9: Intro to Ray-Tracing & Accelerating Ray-Scene Intersection (18)
sha-moose

Fun fact: if you plot the direction vector with respect to the origin point, you get a light field. Some imaging operations, such as refocusing, are actually geometrically transformations in the light field domain. If you'd like to read more, check out Prof. Ren's paper at https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/lfcamera-150dpi.pdf

ld184

can we not also define ray as a 1D null-space?

prannaypradeep999

Qualitatively, a ray is a line that extends infinitely in one direction, defined by a starting point and a direction. This seems to back up our understanding of what we normally picture as "light rays".

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