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ELI5:What is rendering in video game?
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"Rendering" essential just means "creating the image you see on the screen". Internally, the computer just represents the scene as a bunch of polygons and textures. Rendering is the step where the computer decides exactly what those polygons should look like when viewed from *this* precise location, with *that* exact lighting, and with *those* textures mapped onto the polygon meshes.