Talk:Rendering (computer graphics)

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[edit] The section named "Scanline rendering and rasterisation"

Does not contain a single mention of Scanline rendering.

[edit] Article crying out for some images

An article on computer graphic rendering so needs to have some images! (I would add some if I had anything suitable). CharlesC 23:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Someone make up an appropriate caption
Someone make up an appropriate caption
Would be more appropriate for some shading related article though. Acdx (talk | contribs) 06:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I think this should be moved to "Image Rendering". Any objections?

 matt 03:29 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

I don't know what the site policy is, so haven't done anything about it, but the second external link from this page is clearly an advert for somebody offering professional computer graphics services. Perhaps it should be removed?

Rendering also applies to standard 2D video. This article seems to mention only 3D computer-generated graphics. - Omegatron 16:25, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

yes, i think this should be moved. But to "rendering (computer graphics)" -- since this is a disambiguated page, and its normal, in the subject context, simply to use the word 'rendering' alone, the context being understood. (certainly the phrase 'computer rendering' is never used.) Hxa7241 17:21, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rendering equation gets its own article?

This article does not offer a very in-depth treatment of the so-called "rendering equation." If no one has any objections, I would like to move this section to its own article and expand it. The BRDF probably also deserves its own article.

Reedbeta 23:41, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with CGI?

Maybe this article should be merged into computer-generated imagery. That article is more often linked to, and also much more polished. Most of the technical content in this article can and probably should be moved out to other articles, and a very basic and high-level technical explanation could be added to the CGI article. Unless there are any objections, I will probably start to do this in a couple days. Reedbeta 05:43, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

-- CGI, or Computer Graphics, or 3D Computer Graphics!: all these overlap a great deal, at least in their intent. But thats a different problem...

A more abstract summary would be good in a higher-level page. But rendering also needs a page itself: it has a distinct enough identity in academic and practical worlds, and is a large enough subject. It can organize and relate summaries and links to the more detailed pages below it, some already existing. --Hxa7241 20:54, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article Rewrite

It's great that a new version of the article is being produced. However it is not proper to be putting editorial messages to the into article text. It is better to either put non-displayable comments into the text like this: <!-- sample comment here... --> or better yet, work on the article on a subpage: Rendering (computer graphics)/Newversion until you are ready to go live. --Blainster 22:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3D emphasis

Seems like this article is too focused on 3D rendering; the first blurb in particular ("The model is a description of three dimensional objects", etc.). I hope I don't have to fix it. :/ ¦ Reisio 17:37, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

In fact looking at it again, this article should probably just be moved to another page like 3D rendering or something and this page made into a general overview with {{main|article}} links. Comments? ¦ Reisio 17:39, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
ummm, maybe, yes. but the name would be "rendering (3D computer graphics)" -- being formed from its category. Hxa7241 13:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Agreed. Acdx (talk | contribs) 05:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

The following was moved from the main article:

Need some desambiguisation here. There are other "renderer tools". In a web context, for example, web browser is a "renderer tool" to produce "rendered HTML"; template engine is a "renderer tool" to produce "rendered content" (generating an page from a template model).

[edit] Specular Reflection link

There is no need for a direct link to specular reflection here in rendering. It makes mores sense as part of the overall Reflection (computer graphics) article, and is linked to from there.ADH 05:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about 2D rendering?

This article says very little about 2D computer graphic rendering. I suggest that the article get rewritten to describe all methods of computer graphic rendering including render filters as a simpler umbrella article, while the details of 3D rendering get merged into the 3D rendering article. Oicumayberight 19:14, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3D Rendering

There is significant overlap between these two articles. I think that they need to be made completely seperate. This article should be about the study of rendering (as a descendant of Computer graphics) and the other page should refer to the process (as a descendant of 3D Computer Graphics). In general, we need a distinct branch of articles concerning the study/science of CG and a branch for the process of CG. Adam McCormick 20:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)