You do sometimes see people using the term narrowly, but often the entire category of renderers is referred to as ray tracers. (Which I think makes sense, becau

You do sometimes see people using the term narrowly, but often the entire category of renderers is referred to as ray tracers. (Which I think makes sense, because they're all based on tracing the paths of rays.) A notable example of that usage: > When somebody says "ray tracing" it could mean many things. What I am going to describe is technically a path tracer ~ "Ray Tracing in a Weekend" by Peter Shirley