Practical antialiasing (part II)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1997
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, April 17
Handout #14

Table of contents:

• Adaptive sampling
  • Statistical setting for rendering
  • Describing a population
  • Sampling the population
  • A strategy for reducing the sample variance
  • Stratified sampling
  • Choosing stratum sample sizes
  • Flaws in the statistical approach
  • Alternative theory to support adaptive sampling
  • Reconstruction from highly non-uniform sample densities
  • Algorithm 3: adaptive regular sampling
  • Algorithm 4: adaptive stochastic sampling
  • Image demonstrating adaptive sampling patterns and explanation
• Analytical filtering
  • Unweighted area sampling
  • Weighted area sampling
  • Application to polygon filtering
    (link to a lecture from 1995 version of CS 248)

Press here for Part I of this lecture.