Thursday, July 26, 2012

What is Anti - Aliasing?

Hey people, 


Its been ages since i wrote on my dearest blog. its still comes into my dreams and haunts me for betraying it. Anyways here i am today with another information which still is quite unknown to many artists around the world. This animal is known as "Anti - Aliasing".

In computer graphicsantialiasing is a software technique for diminishing jaggies - stairstep-like lines that should be smooth. Jaggies occur because theoutput device, the monitor or printer, doesn't have a high enough resolution to represent a smooth line. Antialiasing reduces the prominence of jaggies by surrounding the stairsteps with intermediate shades of gray (for gray-scalingdevices) or color (for color devices). Although this reduces the jagged appearance of the lines, it also makes them fuzzier.
Another method for reducing jaggies is called smoothing, in which the printer changes the size and horizontal alignment of dots to make curves smoothe
Antialiasing is sometimes called oversampling.

Resource: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/antialiasing.html

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