What is a render?

[skakdha]

What's a render? Everyone seems to be talking about it.

[Gourav2122]

Rendering in visual art and technical drawing means the process of creating, shading and texturing of an image, especially a photorealistic one. It can also be used to describe the quality of execution of that process. This is synonymous with illustrating.

Another common use for the term, is to cut an object from a background.

The emphasis of the term is on the correct reproduction of light-and-shadow and the surface properties of the depicted objects, not on the emotional impact, composition, or other more generic qualities. Unsurprisingly, most often it is used in relation to the more exacting, meticulous techniques like pencil or airbrush.

In an artistic rendering visual information is interpreted by the artist and displayed accordingly using the chosen medium. The non-photorealistic rendering area of computer graphics develops tools and techniques to enable interpretive rendering in digital media.

Definitions of render on the Web:

* cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"
* supply: give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
* give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
* pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
* make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
* give back; "render money"
* hand over: to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"
* picture: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
* coat with plastic or cement; "render the brick walls in the den"
* give: bestow; "give homage"; "render thanks"
* translate: restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."
* a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
* try: melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
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* A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls; Cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"; Interpret: give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"; Pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"; Make over as ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/render

* To extract the fat from meat by slow cooking.
thefoody.com/glossary/glossaryr.html

* The processing of a series of individual clips, transitions and filters into a single playable track.
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* To transmit or deliver a decision related to an arbitration, binding mediation or med-arb, by the mediator or arbitrator..
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* To heat any solid animal fat to melting point; also called "to try out."
Cooking Terms- Whispers Online Magazine for Women Food section. We have articles on herbs, cooking, baking, desserts, bread, meats, fish, poultry, low fat recipes, bbq, cajun foods and more.

* To draw an object to the screen. This term is most often used in reference to 3D games: The 3D engine calculates where a projectile should be, and then renders it.
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* The final step of an image transformation or three-dimensional scene through which a new image is refreshed on the screen.
frogprints.com.au/help/terminology.cfm

* To interpret the contents of a document, image, or other file so that it can be displayed or played back on a computer.
Wright Color Graphics - Graphic Arts and Printing Dictionary - R

* The process of computing, pixel by pixel, one or more 2D images from 3D scene data, from the viewpoint of a simulated camera.
mental images: Glossary

* To transform digital information in the form received from a repository into a display on a computer screen, or for other presentation to the user.
Digital Libraries: Glossary (1999)

* To process, as in processing, "drawing" or rendering the fractal.
The Fractal Artists' Webring - Glossary

* A payment (usually payment in kind, such as livestock or grain). Render was sometimes used to determine the value of a manor.
Domesday Book glossary

* To blend all multimedia files together in one master file format. Akin to baking a cake from all it’s individual ingredients.
Learn HDV terms, along with other broadcast terms.

* To melt down hard fat to a liquid fat.
Cooking Terms - CookingWithAnne.com

* To melt down or to extract by melting. or, to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer.
Ecosystem Health Glossary

* A durable coating of lime and aggregate, sometimes reinforced with animal hair, which provides a protective covering to the walls of a building. Common substrates include rubble stonework, cob, or in the case of a timber-framed building, wattle and daub.
The Traditional Lime Company - Glossary

* A hardwall finish such as cement or plaster applied to brick or masonry walls.
What does it mean? A Glossary of Building Terms

* The process of producing a rendition. MoReq 1
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* Same as "Reeve."
sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/eng/bridges/WaddellGlossary/GlossR.htm

* To heat foods (example; bacon) in order to clarify the fat for use in sautéing or pan-frying.
Glutenfreed*****m: Glossary of Kitchen Techniques and General Culinary Terminology

* Render means to draw the image into a device context, such as a printer or monitor. It generates an image from a model, a description of three dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure. It contains geometry, viewpoint, texture, and lighting information.
Imaging Software Glossary: Terms & Concepts: R - Snowbound Software

[Oneirish]

Google for the win?

[4ce]

If you wish to ignore Gouravs pasted defination, then I will answer.
Simply, in a piece of art, usually signatures in our community recently, a render is an image that provides the lighting and texture for the rest of the art to surround and revolve itself around. For example you usually see dark colored sigs with dark figures/renders. So if you see a character in a sig, you can classify that as a render.

[Oneirish]

Gourav's explanation owns all...

[4ce]

Gourav's explanation owns all...

Its very detailed and its not his.

[BPK]

-.-"

A picture with no background, just the object. That simple...

[CAPTAIN OBVIOUS]

Its basically the main person or character in a picture, cut out and put onto a clear background to be used for something else.

[BPK]

Yes. 2 phrases: Object of picture. Clear background.

[Gourav2122]

GOOD WORK SUMMARIZING ALL THAT

[GG2GG]

so many answers for same q this thread fails

[Gourav2122]

it was a retarded question

[tednugent]

Google for the win?

Kinda scary isn't it?

Well I guess now that he's mod he has something to live up to.

[Gourav2122]

Copy pasta
how did you know?

[Oneirish]

SQGSA

(Stupid questions get stupid answers)