Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Demon11777 on August 16, 2010, 02:14:42 am

Title: Nooby question ;)
Post by: Demon11777 on August 16, 2010, 02:14:42 am

So i have been seeing the term "AA" a couple of times on this site but I am having a bit of trouble figuring out what it stands for. sooo watzit mean ???

Title: Re: Nooby question ;)
Post by: ptoing on August 16, 2010, 03:09:57 am

Antialias.

(http://www.ptoing.net/aa.png)

Title: Re: Nooby question ;)
Post by: Demon11777 on August 16, 2010, 03:29:09 am

SCIENCE :D

Title: Re: Nooby question ;)
Post by: Ai on August 16, 2010, 03:43:01 am

Quote from: ptoing on August 16, 2010, 03:09:57 am

Antialias.

(http://www.ptoing.net/aa.png)

Ptoing, you've made all these excellent reference sheets. They are scattered all over the board. Any chance of a consolidated page showing/listing them all? Honestly, while I realize you aren't infallible in pixeling technique, these ref sheets are really helpful (and this one, at least, I reckon warrants being included/linked in the FAQ. )

The only significant thing that isn't included in this sheet is that AA looks best/cleanest, just as lines do, when the span of the line segments is a constant integer, as in

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##....
..##..
....##
(and of course the percentages of coverage are the same for each row/column of the line, since the line is perfectly aligned to pixel corners; so less thought per pixel is required)

Title: Re: Nooby question ;)
Post by: Dr. Spankenstein on August 20, 2010, 06:14:58 pm

I second that idea :)