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		_bent 79 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – ... Why did you call the project rasterizer when it is not using rasterization but raytracing?

SR2Z 79 days ago [–]

Rasterization is just the process of converting an image to a raster, which you also have to do in raytracing. It does sound strange though.

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