Triangle Setup

• Back-face Culling (or can be done in view space before lighting)

• Slope/Delta Calculations (back to Line drawing algorithm, DDA)

• Scan-Line Conversion : To get an array of array of begin/end points

  Rendering is the series of operations that determine the final pixel colour displayed for a frame of animation, and while this can be thought of broadly as rasterization, the actual conversion of the 3D scene into screen-addressed pixels, or "real" rasterization, happens during triangle setup, also called scan-line conversion.

Rendering / Rasterization

Rasterization is a generic term that describes the conversion from a two-dimensional or three-dimensional vector representation to an x-y coordinate representation.

In the case of graphics cards (or printers), this process turns an image into points of colour. A rasterizer can be a 3D card, or it can be a printer for that matter

Rendering

Flat / Gouraud / Phong Shading ...

Texturing

Fog

Alpha Transparency

Antialiasing

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