POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : anti-aliasing : Re: anti-aliasing Server Time
7 Aug 2024 01:26:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: anti-aliasing  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 13 Feb 2002 14:58:05
Message: <3c6ac54d@news.povray.org>
"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:3c6a935b@news.povray.org...
> Hi,
> when I use anti-aliasing and treshold 0.0 (+A0.0) with an empty (black)
> scene, every pixel is super-sampled. The doc says every pixel which
differs
> *more* than threshold is sampled, but that's not true.

Good point.  As others pointed out, it should say "at least".

> Try +A0.001: No pixel
> is sampled anymore!

Why is this such a surprise?  You're asking for a difference of 0.001, but
all of the pixels are exactly the same (difference = 0), so they _shouldn't_
be supersampled.  This is the expected behavior.

...Chambers


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