[huis]

I'm not sure the name is good because light tracing means 'ray tracing from the light to the camera'.

Light tracing gives the best results in theory, but it not very usefull because a lot of rays will be rendered without ever ending up in the camera. Which is ofcourse a waste of resourses.

Looks like this is a 'normal' path tracer.

[alkonaut]

It’s true that ”light tracing” is some times used to describe forward-only ray tracing, but I don’t think there is much confusion added by the term here. Anyone who knows the terminology (so could be confused) also knows that no efficient path tracer is forward only.