The way my relationship with renderers stands at the moment is like this: You input data by way of a model and make various codifications based on materials and form. Then you press a button and the renderer (renditioner?) puts out an image that is loosely based on your ideas and mostly based on looking cool. I know there's a stronger connection between the data you input and the results that come out, but so far each time I press that button, what I get is as suprising and magical as the first.