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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations: Hot Scoop?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 00:18:04 GMT
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In article <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, truel@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Robert
Truel) writes:
> Anti-aliasing merely requires generating a bitmap in a larger (double) 
> resolution and then averaging some number of pixels (four) to
> determine the shade of gray to use.

Actually, although a 16-level gray scale is great for anti-aliasing scenes,
characters are close enough to the screen resolution that you'd probably
want to average 16 by 16 pixel areas (thus using a 256-level gray scale).

For some time now I've been thinking about doing some actual empirical
tests and actually building some anti-aliased fonts.  I just seem to
have misplaced the free time in which do so :-)...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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