The reduction of unwanted effects caused by the limited pixel grid or by the staircase effect.
Questions tagged [antialiasing]
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Sub-pixel antialiasing rules
I recently had an issue with sub-pixel anti-aliasing of text, which produces very harsh colours and made me wonder how it is meant to be done properly:
I've drawn some cases of a black tile covering thirds of pixels below.
The colours match the…

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What is the relation between Aliasing and Flickering?
So in the class I've learned that Aliasing refers to the jagged edges resultant from the discrete nature of computer graphics way of representation.
Also, I know that Anti-aliasing refers to a technic (mainly of blurring) to remove (our camouiflage)…

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Is a simple circle gradient enough to make an anti-aliased brush?
I'm new to programming raster graphics and trying to build a simple app, and I want to make sure lines have a smooth anti-aliased look. I am wondering if this can be achieved simply by having a brush that stamps circle gradients that look like this,…

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How to compare anti-aliasing effects on images ?
I am trying out different anti-aliasing algorithms on my image to improve the image quality. I want to compare the differences between these generated images via some metric. I was checking online for good metrics and found none.
Could someone…

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What is texture aliasing and is there any specific "data-structure" to avoid it
Is there any specific difference from normal aliasing and specifically texture aliasing?
Also, is there any specific data structure which can be used to avoid aliasing?

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