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  • noun Alternative spelling of ray casting.

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  • I've been playing in multi-user VWs since 1983, and was very involved in some of the early raycasting and VRML world-building experiments of the early '90s--I got out of developing 3D stuff and got into Gopher and then the Web, but never stopped playing almost every one that came out.

    Second Life 2006

  • Meridian59's capabilities were directly determined by what raycasting engines could do; it always felt like a graphics engine with a world tacked on.

    Ruby Slippers 2006

  • This last one, he explains, uses parallel sphere raycasting, with some simplified screen-space ambient occlusion, all built on the canvas element with direct pixel color control.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2010

  • This last one, he explains, uses parallel sphere raycasting, with some simplified screen-space ambient occlusion, all built on the canvas element with direct pixel color control.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2010

  • This last one, he explains, uses parallel sphere raycasting, with some simplified screen-space ambient occlusion, all built on the canvas element with direct pixel color control.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2010

  • I think I manage to gather the necessary information to generate a sliding plane by raycasting with an axis aligned bounding box.

    GameDev.Net 2009

  • Id made use of a technique known as texture mapping that, combined with a raycasting engine written in assembly language, allowed the three-dimensional graphics to be playable on the lowest common denominator machine, at the time a 286.

    GameSetWatch 2009

  • Creating pseudo 3D games with HTML 5 canvas and raycasting: Part 2

    dzone.com: latest front page 2009

  • In version 1.22, the method for picking was refactored to use a raycasting method, which has enormous performance advantages.

    World of SL 2008

  • Edumatic - Actionscript 3 e-learning framework similar to ARP EnFlash - ActionScript Application Framework Gaia Framework - Gaia is a pragmatic, agile framework for Actionscript 3 and 2, which features a revolutionary scaffolding engine and includes SWFObject and SWFAddress integration. gamepackage - Open source ActionScript 2 framework for gamedevelopment (mode7, raycasting, tile2d, pathfinder, ...), an audiopackage and lots of useful util and math classes GameScroll - Open source ActionScript 2 System | Framework for scroll-gamedevelopment JumpShip Framework - An MVC based ActionScript Framework with A Ruby on Rails design philosophy.

    · Open Source Flash Dale J Williams 2010

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