For some people, everything is a contest-even "ray tracing," which renders a scene in realistic 3-D by computer modeling of light rays as they bounce around in the virtual world. For the last few years, computer graphics craftspeople have been submitting their work to the Internet Ray Tracing Competition. A panel of judges picks the winners and displays them on this site, which has become an archive of amazing images and animations.

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