1.   The exact amount depends on the quality of resolution with which the images are rendered.

2.   Dickens can render images of characters quickly, yet precisely.

3.   Most home computer screens render images far less sharply than the thousand-dollar big screens in museums.

4.   One problem with rendering such images in the past was that the computers always created razor-sharp images, which looked unnatural to the human eye.

5.   PC makers want to produce television pictures in a manner similar to the way images are currently rendered on computer screens.

6.   Researchers then combined these pictures in a computer, instructing it to render an image of what the cell would look like, lit up in three dimensions.

7.   They share the process of rendering images using Scan Line Interleave, or SLI.

8.   This diagnostic tool -- which renders cross-sectional images using computerized axial tomography -- allows doctors to examine tissues without cutting into them.