Timeline for why doesn't a ray hitting a sphere at only 1 point count as a hit in sphere/ray intersection?
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| Oct 8, 2018 at 15:15 | vote | accept | Manh Nguyen | ||
| Oct 7, 2018 at 17:36 | answer | added | bram0101 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 7:19 | comment | added | user106 | (1) For a random ray, this happens with probability zero, so it doesn't really matter what you do here. (2) If the ray meets the sphere at exactly 1 point, it is tangent to the sphere, so the reflected ray will be in exactly the same direction, and it is as if there was no intersection. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 3:35 | history | asked | Manh Nguyen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |