Yes, maybe for the individual English words "path" and "ray", but as a graphics term, path tracing is a subset of a larger area called ray tracing. There are ma

Yes, maybe for the individual English words "path" and "ray", but as a graphics term, path tracing is a subset of a larger area called ray tracing. There are many, many different forms and algorithms for ray tracing, and path tracing is one of those.