Raytracing

Quality:

Ray tracing - rendering algorithm that works by sending out many virtual rays of light. Article “Raytracing” in German Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 23 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Raytracing”, its content was written by 153 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1228 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 143 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2371 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #281 in December 2005
• Global: #2322 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #4660 in August 2018
• Global: #8222 in August 2018

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ray tracing (graphics)		79.7563
2	Korean (ko) 광선 추적		76.6676
3	German (de) Raytracing		72.5301
4	Estonian (et) Kiirtejälitus		68.2821
5	Bulgarian (bg) Проследяване на лъчи (компютърна графика)		51.6247
6	Vietnamese (vi) Dò tia (đồ họa)		46.3182
7	Finnish (fi) Säteenseuranta		41.3199
8	Turkish (tr) Işın izleme		35.1833
9	French (fr) Ray tracing		34.3024
10	Chinese (zh) 光線追蹤		30.6222

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray tracing (graphics)		4 791 942
2	German (de) Raytracing		907 375
3	Russian (ru) Трассировка лучей		550 645
4	Japanese (ja) レイトレーシング		501 373
5	French (fr) Ray tracing		405 990
6	Chinese (zh) 光線追蹤		282 062
7	Spanish (es) Trazado de rayos		280 299
8	Polish (pl) Śledzenie promieni		237 215
9	Italian (it) Ray tracing		222 585
10	Portuguese (pt) Traçado de raio		140 897

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray tracing (graphics)		10 128
2	French (fr) Ray tracing		884
3	Japanese (ja) レイトレーシング		871
4	Russian (ru) Трассировка лучей		864
5	German (de) Raytracing		841
6	Chinese (zh) 光線追蹤		620
7	Italian (it) Ray tracing		271
8	Spanish (es) Trazado de rayos		264
9	Polish (pl) Śledzenie promieni		250
10	Portuguese (pt) Traçado de raio		103

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray tracing (graphics)		353
2	German (de) Raytracing		153
3	French (fr) Ray tracing		118
4	Italian (it) Ray tracing		75
5	Russian (ru) Трассировка лучей		49
6	Spanish (es) Trazado de rayos		43
7	Japanese (ja) レイトレーシング		43
8	Dutch (nl) Raytracing		42
9	Turkish (tr) Işın izleme		38
10	Polish (pl) Śledzenie promieni		35

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Ray tracing		1
2	Italian (it) Ray tracing		1
3	Korean (ko) 광선 추적		1
4	Turkish (tr) Işın izleme		1
5	Chinese (zh) 光線追蹤		1
6	Arabic (ar) اقتفاء الشعاع		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şüa izləmə		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Проследяване на лъчи (компютърна графика)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Traçat de raigs		0
10	Czech (cs) Sledování paprsku		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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