Practical antialiasing (part I)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1996
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, April 16
Handout #13

Table of contents:

• What's the best way to prevent aliasing?
  • Raising the sampling rate versus filtering
  • Sidebar: vernier acuity
  • Problem: fixed resolution displays
• Supersampling followed by resampling
  • Overview
  • Computing a single output pixel
  • Supersampling versus filtering
• Practical supersampling
  • Algorithm 1: regular supersampling
  • Stochastic sampling and human vision
  • Stochastic sampling in computer graphics
  • Algorithm 2: practical stochastic supersampling

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