Ray casting

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Ray casting

Quality:

Ray casting - use of ray–surface intersection tests to solve a variety of problems in computer graphics and computational geometry. Article “Ray casting” in English Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.87 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Ray casting” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ray casting”, its content was written by 135 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 276 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 251 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9295 in January 2004
  • Global: #23277 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #47104 in May 2017
  • Global: #86166 in May 2017

There are 14 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Ray casting
54.6195
2German (de)
Raycasting
34.6261
3Ukrainian (uk)
Ray casting
25.8076
4Finnish (fi)
Säteensuuntaus
25.4575
5Catalan (ca)
Ray casting
24.1242
6Spanish (es)
Ray casting
22.0872
7Korean (ko)
광선 투사
21.1635
8Russian (ru)
Рейкастинг
19.0653
9Indonesian (id)
Sorot sinar
14.8894
10Portuguese (pt)
Ray casting
11.4057
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Ray casting" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ray casting
1 237 270
2Russian (ru)
Рейкастинг
152 736
3German (de)
Raycasting
151 465
4French (fr)
Raycasting
73 570
5Polish (pl)
Ray casting
40 839
6Spanish (es)
Ray casting
25 831
7Portuguese (pt)
Ray casting
25 205
8Korean (ko)
광선 투사
9 019
9Ukrainian (uk)
Ray casting
4 734
10Finnish (fi)
Säteensuuntaus
2 399
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Ray casting" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ray casting
3 421
2Russian (ru)
Рейкастинг
439
3German (de)
Raycasting
246
4French (fr)
Raycasting
207
5Spanish (es)
Ray casting
99
6Polish (pl)
Ray casting
92
7Chinese (zh)
光线投射
64
8Portuguese (pt)
Ray casting
55
9Ukrainian (uk)
Ray casting
27
10Korean (ko)
광선 투사
20
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ray casting
135
2German (de)
Raycasting
47
3French (fr)
Raycasting
28
4Russian (ru)
Рейкастинг
16
5Polish (pl)
Ray casting
12
6Spanish (es)
Ray casting
10
7Norwegian (no)
Raycasting
8
8Portuguese (pt)
Ray casting
5
9Ukrainian (uk)
Ray casting
4
10Catalan (ca)
Ray casting
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ray casting
1
2Catalan (ca)
Ray casting
0
3German (de)
Raycasting
0
4Spanish (es)
Ray casting
0
5Finnish (fi)
Säteensuuntaus
0
6French (fr)
Raycasting
0
7Indonesian (id)
Sorot sinar
0
8Korean (ko)
광선 투사
0
9Norwegian (no)
Raycasting
0
10Polish (pl)
Ray casting
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ray casting
108
2Russian (ru)
Рейкастинг
25
3Chinese (zh)
光线投射
25
4German (de)
Raycasting
20
5Ukrainian (uk)
Ray casting
13
6Korean (ko)
광선 투사
12
7Spanish (es)
Ray casting
9
8Polish (pl)
Ray casting
9
9French (fr)
Raycasting
8
10Portuguese (pt)
Ray casting
7
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Ray casting
deGerman
Raycasting
enEnglish
Ray casting
esSpanish
Ray casting
fiFinnish
Säteensuuntaus
frFrench
Raycasting
idIndonesian
Sorot sinar
koKorean
광선 투사
noNorwegian
Raycasting
plPolish
Ray casting
ptPortuguese
Ray casting
ruRussian
Рейкастинг
ukUkrainian
Ray casting
zhChinese
光线投射

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#47104
05.2017
Global:
#86166
05.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9295
01.2004
Global:
#23277
01.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ray casting from Wikipedia articles about Ray tracing, Wolfenstein 3D, John Carmack, 2.5D and Mode 7. Whereas reading the article about Ray casting people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ray tracing, Binary space partitioning, ShadowCaster, Wolfenstein 3D and Universal joint.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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