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In this master's thesis the principle of hybrid ray tracing, consisting of a rasterization pipeline which includes ray tracing techniques for certain effects, is explained and the implementation of an application which uses a hybrid approach in which ray tracing is used to calculate shadows, ambient occlusion, and reflections and combines those with direct lighting is documented and explained. Hybrid ray tracing is based on the idea of combining the performance and flexibility of rasterization-based approaches with ray tracing to overcome the limitation of not being able to access the complete surrounding geometry at any point in the scene.
While describing the implementation of said application, the RTX API which is being used for ray tracing is explained as well Vulkan, the graphics API used.
Based on the results and the insights gained while using the RTX API, it is assessed in regards of its usage scenarios and technical sophistication.