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The aliasing problem in computer-generated shaded images

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 20 , Issue 11 (November 1977) table of contents

Pages: 799 - 805

Year of Publication: 1977

ISSN:0001-0782

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Franklin C. Crow

Univ. of Texas, Austin

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Certain defects, such as jagged edges and disappearing detail, have long been an annoyance in digitally generated shaded images. Although increasing the resolution or defocusing the display can attenuate them, an understanding of these defects leads to more effective methods. This paper explains the observed defects in terms of the aliasing phenomenon inherent in sampled signals and discusses prefiltering as a recognized cure. A method for evaluating filters is presented, the application of prefiltering to hidden-surface algorithms is discussed, and an implementation of a filtering tiler is shown accompanied by examples of its effectiveness.

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Keywords:
aliasing, computer graphics, convolutional filtering, hidden-surface removal, sampling

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