A rendering technique used to create photorealistic reflections and refractions on reflective surfaces, and to produce shadows. Raytracing is a high-quality alternative to reflection mapping, although it requires more computation time.

See also shadow.

Contrast with reflection map, depth map.

• Render the scene using raytracing
• Render raytraced shadows
• Produce raytraced shadows
• Set raytracing quality
• Depth map and raytraced shadows