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by Simulacrum0 1873 days ago
Ray Tracing ( specifically Path Traced GI ) is fairly simple given the complexity of 'reality' and light bouncing off or through various materials. The actual algorithms used to bounce/scatter/gather light aren't complex.

Symmetric Encryption is usually a couple matrix multiplies over blocks of data...giving a lot of complextity from a few simple constants and arithmetic ops.