On 4 Dec 2001 10:50:59 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce <ken### [at] uniplanit> wrote:
>: Most of povray images
>: (see IRTC etc...) have a bad aliasing (imho) because of povray is
>: still slow (if compared to stuff like lightflow or mentalray or other
>: renderers)...
>
>  I don't understand how speed affects antialiasing quality. You speak like
>a faster program would make a better antialiasing.
>  Of course a smaller antialiasing threshold takes longer to render, but the
>result will be identical independently of how fast the program or the
>computer is.
>  If you had said "a faster program allows you to use a higher quality
>antialiasing in the same render time", that would have been more accurate.
>  And besides, I don't remember seeing many images with crappy antialiasing
>in the IRTC.
If your time limit is +inf, then speed is not equal to quality. Other
wise it is. But usually when I talk I'm thinking of real world, not of
every other thing.

>
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