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Consider looking up the definition of render. You will find that it has nothing to do with pixels specifically.
by hamandcheese 3y ago
Consider looking up the definition of render. You will find that it has nothing to do with pixels specifically.
- bayindirh 3y agoThere are many terms about computers in English which have been borrowed from similar acts in real life. Compiling, interpreting, context switching, branching, etc. Similarly, rendering is reserved for the last step, converting whatever you have to something which can be shown. You render videos, text, etc. The thing is, they are not modified further, they are shown. When you "render" to HTML, you "render it again" for display. So it's not rendering in "Computer Science Sense", hence making the usage wrong. Otherwise, JIT and interpreted would mean the same thing, but they're not. Because JIT allows tons of other things from a techincal point of view.
- hamandcheese 3y agoYour screen buffer certainly undergoes additional transformations and modifications on the way to your monitor.
- bayindirh 3y agoIn the sense that the signal that’s generated by the photons hitting your eyes are transformed by your brain. They don’t change the essence. However, going from text to pixels is a bigger and more profound change. You’re still in the same domain from framebuffer to the brain, with an optoisolator in the middle.
- bradfitz 3y agoVisiting family in Iowa, I went for a run around some back roads and saw dead hogs out on the road. I asked my grandparents what that was about. They said they were out for rendering to pick them up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)