Tracing

Tracing may refer to:

Tracing (law), a process by which a one demonstrates the ownership of property to be awarded a claim based on this information
Tracing (criminology), a subject that aims to determine crime socene activity from trace evidence left at crime scenes
Tracing of family members, a service provided by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Tracing (as with a gun or camera), tracking an object, as with the use of tracer ammunition
Tracing (art), copying an object or drawing, especially with the use of translucent tracing paper
Call tracing, a procedure in telephony that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection
Anterograde tracing, and Retrograde tracing, biological research techniques used to map the connections of neurons
Tracking and tracing, a process of monitoring the location and status of property in transit

Computer graphics

Image tracing, digital image processing to convert raster graphics into vector graphics
Path tracing, is a computer graphics Monte Carlo 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) of a binary digital region can be thought of as a segmentation technique that identifies the boundary pixels of the digital region
Tracing (software), a method of debugging in computer programming
curve tracing

Ray tracing (physics), a method for calculating the path of waves or particles through a system with regions of varying propagation velocity, absorption characteristics, and reflecting surfaces.
Dye tracing, tracking various flows using dye added to the liquid in question