Tracing may refer to:
Mathematics
- Curve sketching, a process for determining the shape of a geometric curve
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
- Tracing (software), a method of debugging in computer programming
- System monitoring
- Application performance management
Physics
- Ray tracing (physics), a method for calculating the path of waves or particles
- Dye tracing, tracking various flows using dye added to the liquid in question
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
- 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
See also
- Trace (disambiguation)
- Tracer (disambiguation)
- Tracking (disambiguation)