What is ray tracing in maya?

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Ray tracing in Maya is a rendering technique that simulates the behavior of light in a 3D scene, creating realistic reflections and shadows.

Ray tracing is a rendering algorithm used to calculate the path of light rays in a scene.
It simulates the behavior of light by tracing the path of individual rays as they interact with objects in the scene.
Ray tracing can create realistic reflections, refractions, and shadows.
It is computationally intensive and can take longer to render compared to other rendering techniques.
Maya uses ray tracing to produce high-quality and realistic images in 3D scenes.

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It's actually trace the rays emit from light and gives us a smoother output like soft shadows, it gives the scene a Volume by adjusting it's value we can remove noise from the scene each control has its own different value which gives a denoised output