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From: wm@ogccse.ogc.edu (Wm Leler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Gray-scale antialiasing
Keywords: anti-aliasing text
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Date: 31 Oct 88 03:14:33 GMT
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For more information about anti-aliasing and text, there are two papers
in the 1980 SIGGRAPH proceedings.  One of them is by John Warnock (a
name you should recognize), but I forget the title.  The other paper is
called "Human Vision, anti-aliasing, and the cheap 4000 line display".
The Warnock paper discusses text, and the other paper presents the
perceptual evidence for anti-aliasing (why it works).

I am constantly amazed that anti-aliased text has not become the norm.
It works (very well).  It is cheap to implement (cheaper than raising
the pixel resolution of the display).  I believe the only commercial
products that incorporated anti-aliased text were some fairly old CRT
terminals from HP.

Wm Leler