---
title: "Rendering"
description: "a proof that a surface renders inside the real shell, arrived at from a sibling"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/rendering
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Rendering

a proof that a surface renders inside the real shell, arrived at from a sibling

[figure: Rendering is a work at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | platform |
| key | the surface, the width, the theme and the version |
| store | postgres |
| family | interfaces |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `surface` | [Surface](/concepts/surface) | yes |  |
| `width` | `count` | yes |  |
| `theme` | `one of light \| dark` | yes |  |
| `version` | `count` | yes |  |
| `image` | `text` | no |  |
| `landmark_before` | `count` | no |  |
| `landmark_after` | `count` | no |  |
| `arrived_from` | [Surface](/concepts/surface) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Rendering directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.