Ray casting

Ray casting - use of ray–surface intersection tests to solve a variety of problems in computer graphics and computational geometry. Article “Ray casting” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 11.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ray casting”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 276 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 251 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #22481 in December 2024
• Global: #23277 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #103940 in June 2008
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ray casting		54.6195
2	German (de) Raycasting		34.6261
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ray casting		25.8076
4	Finnish (fi) Säteensuuntaus		25.4575
5	Catalan (ca) Ray casting		24.1242
6	Spanish (es) Ray casting		22.0872
7	Korean (ko) 광선 투사		21.1635
8	Russian (ru) Рейкастинг		19.0653
9	Indonesian (id) Sorot sinar		14.8894
10	Portuguese (pt) Ray casting		11.4057

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ray casting" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray casting		1 237 270
2	Russian (ru) Рейкастинг		152 736
3	German (de) Raycasting		151 465
4	French (fr) Raycasting		73 570
5	Polish (pl) Ray casting		40 839
6	Spanish (es) Ray casting		25 831
7	Portuguese (pt) Ray casting		25 205
8	Korean (ko) 광선 투사		9 019
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ray casting		4 734
10	Finnish (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.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ray casting" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray casting		3 421
2	Russian (ru) Рейкастинг		439
3	German (de) Raycasting		246
4	French (fr) Raycasting		207
5	Spanish (es) Ray casting		99
6	Polish (pl) Ray casting		92
7	Chinese (zh) 光线投射		64
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray casting		55
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ray casting		27
10	Korean (ko) 광선 투사		20

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

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray casting		135
2	German (de) Raycasting		47
3	French (fr) Raycasting		28
4	Russian (ru) Рейкастинг		16
5	Polish (pl) Ray casting		12
6	Spanish (es) Ray casting		10
7	Norwegian (no) Raycasting		8
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray casting		5
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ray casting		4
10	Catalan (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.

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray casting		1
2	Catalan (ca) Ray casting		0
3	German (de) Raycasting		0
4	Spanish (es) Ray casting		0
5	Finnish (fi) Säteensuuntaus		0
6	French (fr) Raycasting		0
7	Indonesian (id) Sorot sinar		0
8	Korean (ko) 광선 투사		0
9	Norwegian (no) Raycasting		0
10	Polish (pl) Ray casting		0

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

Language versions of the article "Ray casting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ray casting		108
2	Russian (ru) Рейкастинг		25
3	Chinese (zh) 光线投射		25
4	German (de) Raycasting		20
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ray casting		13
6	Korean (ko) 광선 투사		12
7	Spanish (es) Ray casting		9
8	Polish (pl) Ray casting		9
9	French (fr) Raycasting		8
10	Portuguese (pt) Ray casting		7

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Ray casting
de	German Raycasting
en	English Ray casting
es	Spanish Ray casting
fi	Finnish Säteensuuntaus
fr	French Raycasting
id	Indonesian Sorot sinar
ko	Korean 광선 투사
no	Norwegian Raycasting
pl	Polish Ray casting
pt	Portuguese Ray casting
ru	Russian Рейкастинг
uk	Ukrainian Ray casting
zh	Chinese 光线投射

Best Rank

Portuguese: #103940 06.2008

Global: #86166 05.2017

Best Rank

Portuguese: #22481 12.2024

Global: #23277 01.2004

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