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  • 1Point Douglas to Superior Military Road — Point Douglas to Superior Military Road, also known as Point Douglas to St. Louis River Military Road and as Douglas Highway, was a road the ran between Point Douglas, located at the outlet of the Lower St. Croix Lake near Hastings, Minnesota,… …

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  • 2tracing — 1. Any graphic display of electrical or mechanical cardiovascular events, e.g., electrocardiogram, phlebogram. SEE ALSO: curve. 2. In dentistry, a line or lines, scribed on a table or plate by a pointed instrument, re …

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  • 3Point in polygon — In computational geometry, the point in polygon (PIP) problem asks whether a given point in the plane lies inside, outside, or on the boundary of a polygon. It is a special case of point location problems and finds applications in areas that deal …

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  • 4point of convergence —    A point to which a bloodstain pattern can be projected. This point is determined by tracing the long axis of well defined bloodstains within the pattern back to a common point or source …

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  • 5Ray tracing (graphics) — In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane. The technique is capable of producing a very high degree of photorealism; usually higher than that of typical… …

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  • 6Ray tracing (physics) — In physics, ray tracing is a method for calculating the path of waves or particles through a system with regions of varying propagation velocity, absorption characteristics, and reflecting surfaces. Under these circumstances, wavefronts may bend …

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  • 7Distributed ray tracing — Distributed ray tracing, also called distribution ray tracing and stochastic ray tracing, is a refinement of ray tracing that allows for the rendering of soft phenomena. Conventional ray tracing uses single rays to sample many different domains.… …

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  • 8Anterograde tracing — In neuroscience, anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing , which is used to trace neural connections from… …

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  • 9gothic arch tracing — a tracing of the movements of the mandible, resembling an arrowhead or a Gothic arch, made by means of a device attached to the opposing arches, the exact shape depending on the location of the marking point relative to the tracing table; the… …

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  • 10Path tracing — Le path tracing est une technique de lancer de rayon (ray tracing), utilisée pour déterminer l illumination globale d une scène 3D, pouvant aller jusqu à générer l image finale par une constitution progressive. L image n est d abord qu un… …

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