Anti-Aliasing Calculator [GIFT]

[difrnt]

Here is a Anti-Aliasing Calculator that I made.
I originally did it in C++ but just re-coded it in PHP.
It's your guy's to use freely, tell me what you think.
Tell me any errors you find so I may fix them.

http://www.portmonkey.com/aacalc

Thanks!

[ptoing]

i guess sliders and realtime update would be nice, then again i don't need this, promotion has ramping

[difrnt]

Great idea ptoing!
I shall start working on this!

[Larwick]

Also howabout being able to put two hex codes in as another option other than the RGB values? Seems really neat btw.

[Ai]

I noticed, the output is incorrectly formatted when any of the input values are < 16

for example:
# F F1E
is the AA color chosen for A=(10 10 10)  B=(20 20 50)
I expected #0F0F1E

Yeah, realtime update is pretty important.

[AdamAtomic]

Yeah a slider so you could bias the values would be very nice, e.g. I usually blend at 35% or 65% rather than 50%.  Maybe have a slider for the # of values to return also?

[Helm]

If the only thing in mind when you create a new buffer-shade is the two colors it's going to be buffering between, then you're not using that shade optimally. No automated tools are needed for this extremely human-intuition based choice, I think. But to each their own.

[AdamAtomic]

I think this is more for calculating just the anti-aliasing shade for people using apps that don't have brush transparency.

[Feron]

I just use photoshop pencil - if i want an AA shade is just press '5' (sets to 50% opacity) pencil over the color i want to make an aa shade with, 'i' - click the color, ctrl Z, and then set pencil back to 100% opacity.  however, more often than not, i just chose my own AA color by eye, and i have found using desaturated tones for AA can work better.  This wold be harder to implement into your calculator.

A sliding version would make more sense and would be more efficient.  Props to your effort though - not many people would go to the effort to make tools like these.

[robotriot]

I just use photoshop pencil - if i want an AA shade is just press '5' (sets to 50% opacity) pencil over the color i want to make an aa shade with, 'i' - click the color, ctrl Z, and then set pencil back to 100% opacity.

Heh, you do know that you can just press ALT for the colour picker, and that doing undo is unnecessary in that case, except when you set the pixel on a different layer? It won't have any transparency to it :)

I guess this is more fancy than my old AA-colourfinder :D http://omr.planet-d.net/trash/aac.zip

[difrnt]

Heh, you do know that you can just press ALT for the colour picker, and that doing undo is unnecessary in that case, except when you set the pixel on a different layer? It won't have any transparency to it

I guess this is more fancy than my old AA-colourfinder http://omr.planet-d.net/trash/aac.zip

Nope, it's not. That is actually where I got the idea for mine at.
Mine was so it didn't exit everytime.
It also was set so the output was in the color outputed color for AA.

[Feron]

Heh, you do know that you can just press ALT for the colour picker, and that doing undo is unnecessary in that case, except when you set the pixel on a different layer? It won't have any transparency to it

I guess this is more fancy than my old AA-colourfinder http://omr.planet-d.net/trash/aac.zip

Ummm, I use Mac OS X so color picker is I.

[AdamAtomic]

he means that you can be using the pencil tool, and hold down the alt key while still on pencil to temporarily switch to the eye dropper.  this is a big helper for speed!

[Werewolf]

add a div where the background-color equals the result, it would be good for copy and paste preview

[Elk]

good work goboom
i just dont get how it works!

[Feron]

he means that you can be using the pencil tool, and hold down the alt key while still on pencil to temporarily switch to the eye dropper.  this is a big helper for speed!

... I've been using photoshop for years... I wonder how many other sneaky shortcuts there are!
thanks!

[difrnt]

good work goboom
i just dont get how it works!

You simply take your 2 RGB values and enter them in, and blamo! out comes your perfect 50% AA color.

[Ai]

You simply take your 2 RGB values and enter them in, and blamo! out comes your perfect 50% AA color.

I think he was looking for something more like this:

aa_r = (c1_r + c2_r) / 2
aa_g = (c1_g + c2_g) / 2
aa_b = (c1_b + c2_b) / 2