Official Off-Topic Thread

[Atnas]

Happy birthday Adam!

And uh banding really needs to be adressed more, found this on a mobile game site.

[Helm]

I'm going to write an open-ended tutorial about banding soon. Just trying to think of what ways to approach it so it makes sense.

[tocky]

I only really wrapped my head around the idea of banding recently, but it seems to me now that there's a pretty standard fix for it:
stolen from Jad:

stolen from Eyecraft:

does this have a name? am I allowed to call it 'bricklaying'?

[Jad]

Let's not give a name for too many things or we'll start inventing 'techniques' again = __=;;

It'll be like 'I used 16 colors and bricklaying for most of the ramps' and half of the comments in the thread will go 'what is bricklaying?' ... I'm afraid.

Just telling people to not stack equally big shading bands on top of each other'd be a good start I reckon? But that's not all banding is about, the banding effect can appear in much more subtle situations.

[tocky]

Is it also banding where you have the same colour used in close quarters for two different reasons (like aa and shading) and they bleed into each other, sort of messing up the shape?

[.TakaM]

does this have a name? am I allowed to call it 'bricklaying'?

It's "anti-aliasing" 

[Ben2theEdge]

does this have a name? am I allowed to call it 'bricklaying'?

It's "anti-aliasing" 

 

*PROPER* anti-alaising should prevent banding. Improper anti-alaising can actually *cause* some of those weird subtle banding effects Jad mentioned. You probably can't really talk about one without mentioning the other, they are each other's arch nemesis.

[HughSpectrum]

Selective brick laying.

[Jad]

Selective brick laying.

I will never say 'anti-alias' again : D

[Dusty]

I always thought banding was shading that followed the shape of the outline rather than being shaded with the shape of the object in mind.