Rendering

Radiosity is a rendering technology which realistically simulates the way in which light interacts in an environment. In this way radiosity offer significant benefits over standard lighting such as Improved image quality. Radiosity technology in 3DS Max produces more accurate photometric simulations of lighting in scenes. Effects like indirect light, soft shadows and colour bleeding [...]

Rendering Hardware

API originally stood for Advanced Programing Interface but is now more commonly known as Application Programming Interface. It is a source code interface which, provided by an operating system or library, supports requests of it made by computer programmes. GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit although it is sometimes known as a Visual Processing Unit or [...]

(CGI) Computer Generated Imagery

CGI, or Computer Generated Imagery, is the application of 3D computer graphics to special effects in film, TV, simulators etc. Games also use CGI but it is often referred to as FMV, or Full Motion Video. CGI is used because it is overall very practical, it saves time, effort and a lot of money as [...]

Cartesian Co-ordinate System

Creating the illusion of working in three-dimensional space is called the Cartesian Co-ordinate system, first developed by Rene Descartes in 1637.