Note that the interpolating of attribute values along the edges of the triangle is not exclusive to a polygon-pusher, right? If your raytracer has textures, it

Note that the interpolating of attribute values along the edges of the triangle is not exclusive to a polygon-pusher, right? If your raytracer has textures, it still interpolates the much same way the polygon-pusher does, right? Am I getting confused? (Of course the raytracer's geometry is less likely to be triangles than the polygon-pusher's geometry, but let's keep it apples-to-apples). And of course it applies to any kind of textures: baked in lightmaps, normal maps, whatever. I mean, sure, the polygon-pusher presumably does it post-transforms, i.e. in screenspace, and the raytracer does it in some other space (exactly what space is gonna depend on implementation of the camera and stuff I think), but I think it's pretty similar? But as far as I know the depth-checking in a polygon pusher is totally about the raster, so in that sense, yeah, the (non-wireframe) polygon-pusher has a deeper relationship to rasters.