Mehmet Can ÇAPAR 6th week definitions

Rendering (design treatment)


(old answer) (better)
Real time renderingis concerned with making images rapidly on the computer. It is the most highly interactive area of computer graphics. An image appears on the screen, the viewers act or react and this feedback affects what is generated next. This cycle of reaction and rendering happens at a rapid enough rate that the viewer does not see individual images, but rather becomes immersed in a dynamic process.

 

(Real time rendering, Tomas Möller,Eric Haines,Naty Hoffman, pg.1)

(new answer)

Computer animation takes placein a virtual 3D world. However, it is normally visualized through a 2D screen 

made up of pixels. The rendering process is the computer animator's camera, which records the virtual world

in a format that can  be broadcast. Programmers have been developing renderers for many years and a range

 of techniques have been established. However, these approaches with their respective strengths and weakness

have traditionally been considered mutually exclusive-a rendering  system based on ray tracing  would  handle

shiny reflective surfaces efficiently, but users would simply have to accept that it could not handle displacement

or diffuse surfaces as well as some other architectures could.

(Ian Stephenson, Production rendering: design and implementation, pg:1)