POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 4.0 Feature discussion : Re: 4.0 Feature discussion Server Time
9 Aug 2024 15:24:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4.0 Feature discussion  
From: Eric Fielding
Date: 29 Sep 2000 10:27:24
Message: <39D4A5BD.CF5BBE11@sierras.jpl.nasa.gov>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
> : Say you're doing a 400 x 300. That's 1200 pixels.
> : First you shoot pixels AS IF it were a 40 x 30, where you choose by some
> : algorithm 1 pixel out of every block of 100.
> : Report the color of these pixels to the viewer as if it were ONLY a 40 x 30.
> : Now assume it's a 160  x 120,  shoot 3 pixels out of every block of ....... and
> : so on......
> 
>   How do you calculate antialiasing here?

Since the 'preview' image is not a final product, skip anti-aliasing and
save lots of computation.

				++Eric
-- 
Eric Fielding

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