What is "render path"? Who invented this term?
I can suppose that this thing mean something one from the list below:
The thing which shows which rendering technique should be used (e.g. forward/deffered rendering)
Module for rendering lines and curves
Description how shaders should be connected in mutlipass render to reach the goal of some render FX.
For what this term is stand for? Thanks
I think it's more commonly called a history tree by 3d modelers. I've heard of render path and render tree to describe the ORDER in which render steps occur.
For an image render example: If you blur 10%, then add a sparkle light source looks different than if you do those two events in the opposite order.
In a class once taught, I showed a 3d model example where the model looks different if you start with a rectangular solid and then fillet first and hollow as the 2nd step, versus if you hollow 1st and fillet the outside second.
In the image below, you can see difference in the shape when you change the ORDER of the model render history.
Here's the terms that I think are close synonyms in 3d modeling:
