I was thinking about realtime rendering, and the thought occurred to me, what would you call the other type of rendering? The one where you render frames at about 1 frame/hour and then piece them together later? I've taken to calling it 'offline rendering' but I'm not sure if that's correct... Please inform me as to what the correct term would be :). Thanks in advance!

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The technical term is computer generated imagery (CGI), which I'm sure you've heard numerous times. I would consider "offline rendering" largely inaccurate because most people who do this type of rendering use networks of computers, which is clearly what you'd call "online rendering." I believe those in the industry call it simply "rendering." The term "real-time rendering" isn't widely accepted by anyone, so far as I know.

Leiavoia also has a good point. "Non-real-time rendering" sounds nice and political.

The opposite of realtime rendering (displaying rendered images immediately) is pre-rendering (storing images to display at a later time).

Example: Warcraft has great pre-rendered cinematics but the realtime rendering is less impressive.

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Original post by TomThe term "real-time rendering" isn't widely accepted by anyone, so far as I know.

So... what would the correct term be then?

Thanks for the ideas :D!

In the Cg tutorial book by Fernando & Kilgard they mention Renderman as an "off-line shading language"... I suppose it's not that strange to call it that way...