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…volume rendering to synthesize the colour a camera ray would see by integrating along it [ 8 ] . The rendering equation itself is the cleanest statement of what “continuous” buys and costs: $C(\mathbf{r}) = \int_{t_n}^{t_f} T(t)\, \sigma(\mathbf{r}(t))\, \mathbf{c}(\mathbf{r}(t), \mathbf{d})\, dt, \qquad T(t) = \exp\!\left(-\int_{t_n}^{t} \sigma(\mathbf{r}(s))\, ds\right)$. where $\sigma$ is volume density, $\mathbf{c}$ is emitted colour, and T(t) is accumulated transmittance along the ray up to t . There is no patch, no voxel grid, no fixed token count anywhere in this formulation — the scene is a function evaluated at query points, and any tokenization of it for a downstream…

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