Class Notes 03/14/10

Difference between Rocket world vs. World of Warcraft
- The purpose of the Rocket world is the education, and that of World of Warcraft is for entertainment.
- grapics ad resolutions of the World or Warcrafts or Lord of the Rings were much better than Rocket world o Wonderland.

What's Rendering?
- responsible for drawing on the screen(what you actually see on screen)
- process of generating an imae fro model by computer program
- link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(computer_graphics)

Quality of rendering depends on
(1) The rndering engine software: the game, Virtual World, Simulator...etc
(2) Your computer
- combination of your computer hardware and software, giving it the ability to display 3D computer graphics. What you see on your computer isn't the same as what I see on mine.
(3) The quality of the raw 3D content that is "fed to" the rendering engine. In other words, the quality of the 3D artwor that the rendering engine is given to render

MAYA
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