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19 Nov 2024 01:38:20 EST (-0500)
  Re: Anti-aliasing option.  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 8 Jun 2002 11:20:14
Message: <3D0220AC.4242468B@hotmail.com>
PoD wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 07:29:16 +0930, John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> > A number of times I find that I would like certain objects to be
> > anti-aliased, but not the whole scene, or for some objects to be
> > anti-aliased at a higher level than the rest of the scene.
> >
> > What would be the difficulty in programming anti-aliasing regions,
> > such that any pixel whose ray was shot into the region would be
> > anti-aliased at a certain level?   I picture syntax such as:
> >
> > antialias {
> >   box { <-1,1,1>,<2,4,4> }
> >   depth 3
> >   precision .1
> > }
> 
> Technically feasible, I think but I suspect that the edges of the box
> would often become visible as the antialiasing of the background would
> change as well.

Well, if increasing the AA of the background changes the way it looks,
then maybe that background should have AA as well.

Regards,
John


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