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5 Sep 2024 04:18:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Extreme Newbie, pixelization problem  
From: Micha Riser
Date: 1 Aug 2002 04:49:14
Message: <3d48f609@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

> Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
>> An alternative is to render the picture 4x bigger with normal AA
>> settings and scale it down in a graphic program.
> 
>   How that's different from using antialiasing method 1 with threshold 0
> and four samples per pixel?
>   (Method 2 will give you a better result anyways.)

With method 1 and threshold 0 you have a fixed number of samples per final 
pixel. But when you scale it 4x bigger and use a threshold >0 you have a 
dynamic number of samples per final pixel with a minimum of 4.

- Micha

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