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Tracing may refer to:

Mathematics

Curve Tracing: techniques for producing a rough idea of overall shape of a plane curve given its equation.

Computer graphics

  • Image tracing, digital image processing to convert raster graphics into vector graphics
  • Path tracing, a method of rendering images of three-dimensional scenes such that the global illumination is faithful to reality
  • Ray tracing (graphics), techniques in computer graphics
  • Boundary tracing (also known as contour tracing), a segmentation technique that identifies the boundary pixels of the digital region

Software engineering

Physics

Other uses

  • Tracing (art), copying an object or drawing, especially with the use of translucent tracing paper
  • Tracing (criminology), determining crime scene activity from trace evidence left at crime scenes
  • Tracing (law), a legal process by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to their property
  • Anterograde tracing, and Retrograde tracing, biological research techniques used to map the connections of neurons
  • Call tracing, a procedure that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection
  • Curve sketching, a process for determining the shape of a geometric curve
  • Family Tracing and Reunification, a process whereby disaster response teams locate separated family members
  • Tracking and tracing, a process of monitoring the location and status of property in transit
  • Curve tracing, a method for analyzing the characteristics of semiconductors; see Semiconductor curve tracer
  • Tracing (as with a gun or camera), tracking an object, as with the use of tracer ammunition
  • Contact tracing, finding and identifying people in contact with someone with an infectious disease

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