POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : anti-aliasing : Re: More methods? was Re: anti-aliasing Server Time
7 Aug 2024 01:26:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More methods? was Re: anti-aliasing  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 13 Feb 2002 14:57:37
Message: <slrna6lh9i.rft.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On 13 Feb 2002 14:04:51 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>:>   Does it work for reflections/refractions as well?-)
> 
>: No.  But then, those are harder for the existing AA methods too.
> 
>   How so?

Supersampling over a single screen pixel isn't enough to resolve fine details 
if they're magnified by reflections or refractions.  That's one of the 
problems that the Tracing Ray Differentials paper was trying to solve.

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