Startled, that is, if the reader is unfamiliar with Welsh's signature methods of rendering the brutal, poetic and occasionally (to an American reader, anyway) opaque Edinburgh ghetto dialect typical of his narrators and protagonists.
Computer graphics in video games and movies have gotten terrifyingly realistic and the methods of rendering them have become increasingly complex and labor intensive.
Kerin Franklin, who is from Erie, Co., and Scott Graham, from Lafayette, Co., invented a method of rendering plant ingredients into particles, liquid, paste, powder, or a combination of those.
The highly distinctive Egyptian method of rendering nature and artistic style was also a creation of early times and can be seen in most works of Egyptian art.
The crudest method of rendering oil from oleaginous fruits, still practiced in some countries, consists of heaping them in piles, exposing them to the sun, and collecting the oil that exudes.
Using large-format (8-by-10-inch [20.3-by-25.4-cm]) equipment with lenses stopped down to the smallest aperture, Weston, whose earlier career had been in commercial portraiture, formulated a method of "rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh".
But will the non-traditional Pentile method of rendering pixels result in something less than the mega-rez screen we're hoping for?
CLARITY, a method of rendering brain tissue transparent, removes the biggest obstacle to traditional brain imaging: the fatty, light-scattering molecules, called lipids, which form cellular membranes.
I wrote about the company when it spun off of Seattle-based, Paul AI2en-backed Aits its product is essentially a proprietary method of rendering machine learning models in terms of operations that can be performed quickly by nearly any processor.
It turns out that the original Donkey Kong PCBs had a specific method of rendering a scene during graphics transitions called a "sliding door effect," distinctive in the pattern of how pixels are updated.
Selective laser sintering of powder assemblies can then be extended from a method of rendering shape to one in which both shape and composition are delivered directly into the external world from a computer file.
