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I can't quite get a bead on what a render is. It seems to have something to do with graphics. Is it something like AutoCad? Why does it take a long time? Just curious.





Rendering is one or the last stage in digital content creation - photo editing, video editing, computer-generated imagery or CGI, sound editing.

All of the source material can be digitized where necessary, altered and processed.

The music you hear on a CD was rendered, possibly more than once and not necessarily as a whole, after it had been mastered.

Video material, photos and CGI are treated comparably.

CGI feature films nowadays take a vast amount of processing power to be rendered by huge rendering farms, as they are called.

It takes a lot of time because the effects have to be applied to be visible. This is done at very high resolutions, in effect needing much processing power.

Small pieces - a single character, for example - of such a feature might be renderable on a very fast workstation class or high-end PC.


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Dude what are these pictures from?!?





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Jesus H. Lockwood! What the fuck is the story behind those pics? Gotta be Serbia or something...





I found the pictures on snuffx.com, home of the more bizarre side of humour on the internet.

They are entitled "santanajailmassacre" and part of a series depicting what prison can be like for some.

I chose them because they fitted what redundant poster pretty wrote quite well and omitted the rest. Should there be any interest in the full set to be posted - not necessarily in this thread -, make a comment below.
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