Falls Sie sich fragen wie der Name "Renderfarmer" zustande gekommen ist so lesen sie bei Interesse bitte folgende Informationen. Viel Spaß!
Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of a software program. The model is a description of three dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure. It would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture and lighting information. The image is a digital image or raster graphics image. The term is by analogy with an "artist's rendering" of a scene.
It is one of the major sub-topics of 3D computer graphics, and in practice always connected to the others. In the 'graphics pipeline' it's the last major step, giving the final appearance to the models and animation. With the increasing sophistication of computer graphics since the 1970s onward, it has become a more distinct subject.
It has uses in: computer and video games, simulators, movies or TV special effects, and design visualisation. Each employing a different balance of features and techniques. As a product, a wide variety of renderers are available. some are integrated into larger modelling and animation packages, some are stand-alone, some are free open-source projects. On the inside, a renderer is a carefully engineered program, based on a selective mixture of disciplines related to: light physics, visual perception, mathematics, and software development.
A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. It is a section of land devoted to the production and management of food, either produce or livestock. The land and buildings of a farm are called the farmstead. It may be an enterprise owned and operated by a single individual, family, or community, or it may be owned by a corporation or company. A farm can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare to several thousand hectares.
A render farm is a computer cluster to render computer generated imagery (CGI), typically for film and television visual effects. The rendering of images is a highly parallelizable activity, as each frame can be calculated independently of the others, with the main communication between processors being the upload of the initial source material, such as models and textures, and the download of the finished images.
As a rule of thumb, CG images take roughly an hour per frame to render. The amount of time it takes to render an image has remained roughly constant over two decades, in spite of huge improvements in computer processing power. The reason for this is that advances in computer power are absorbed by increased computation in order to meet demands to achieve state-of-the-art image quality, while the hour-per-frame figure arises from the demands of production timescales.
Falls Ihnen das nicht reicht, möchte ich noch folgendes anmerken. "Farm" - Meine Vorfahren waren Landwirte und ich empfinde, nachdem ich dies einige Jahre genießen konnte, auch heute einen starken Bezug zum Country Life. "Rendering" - Die CG Komponente ergibt sich daraus, dass ich versuche immer mehr 3D Elemente in meinen Arbeiten zu verwenden. Ich bin der Meinung, dass CG bzw. 3D immer wichtiger in der Medien & Entertainmentbranche wird. In Zukunft möchte ich mich noch mehr in diese Richtung orientieren. Ich freue mich schon auf neue spannende Aufgaben in diesem Bereich.
