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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd rather have nice sharp jaggies. Antialiasing tends to give me the impression that someone's smeared my screen with Vaseline.

I acknowledge that this is a minority preference, and the algorithms involved in antialiasing are interesting even if I don't like the product.

[–] barryamelton 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not all AA are the same. The vaseline smear you complain about is just Temporal AA. See https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckTAA for more info.

Not all game engines need to use TAA, and usually is just because the devs were cutting corners.

Edit: even the post mentions it, https://blog.frost.kiwi/analytical-anti-aliasing/#clarity-should-not-be-a-luxury

[–] DonGirses 5 points 1 day ago

So much this.

Give me MSAA OR SSAA.

Any COD after BO3 is probably the worst offender

[–] HootinNHollerin 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s your astroglide again. looks fine on my machine

[–] barryamelton 2 points 1 day ago

Wonderful blog with embedded WebGL examples. Kudos!

[–] shrugs 9 points 2 days ago

Exceptionally well written and interesting blog post. Kudos to FrostKiwi!

[–] RedStrider 4 points 2 days ago

great blogpost!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Writing an entire article about AA and the saying at the very end that woah our technique beats all the others! Well except DLAA but we're just going to ignore that.

Your solution means nothing if it can't be integrated easily into an engine with minimal performance cost. I don't see that happening with this type of AA that the article is trying to sell.