About the order of anti-aliasing and gamma correction:

Nathan Kopp wrote:
> So, if you were to perform AA by hand by rendering the image at a higher
> resolution and then downsample it using an external paint program, the
> downsampling is clearly occurring after clipping and gamma correction.

Yes, but if the program does it properly (I suspect most don't), it goes 
like this: undo the gamma encoding to get linear sample values, process 
these, and re-gamma-encode them. So the effect is the same as if the 
downsampling was done before the gamma correction (apart from some 
rounding errors).


About the order of anti-aliasing and clipping: I tend to agree with Rune 
and Slime (and Nathan) on this matter, and I don't have anything to add 
to the discussion.

  -Christian

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