POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Extreme Newbie, pixelization problem : Re: Extreme Newbie, pixelization problem Server Time
4 Sep 2024 22:12:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Extreme Newbie, pixelization problem  
From: Philippe Lhoste
Date: 30 Jul 2002 07:43:24
Message: <3d467bdc$1@news.povray.org>
"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> "Mark" <haz### [at] comcastnet> wrote in message
> news:3d462ee9$1@news.povray.org...
> <snip>
>
> Hmm, it sounds as though you just need to turn on anti-aliasing. Assuming
that
> you're using pov for windows, just select one of the AA formats for
rendering in
> the output dropdown, or specify +A 0.3 in the command line.
>
> However, you say that when you render a sphere or other primitives, the
"jaggys"
> are not present, which is a bit confusing, since spheres are very subject
to
> jaggys.

Mark wrote:

> merged shapes, the whole thing looks like crap. I had tried raising the
> resolution levels, the antialiasing levels, and even the #x#
> settings....HELP! I really think I could be good at this stuff if I could

Since he raised the "antialiasing levels", that means he tried that...

I am not a PoV-Ray guru, so I can't really help :-(

Perhaps Mark could post a simple model showing this problem on p.b.s-f, so
experts can take a look.

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
Professional programmer and amateur artist
http://jove.prohosting.com/~philho/


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