anti-aliasing
Noun
Meaning
anti-aliasing (uncountable)
Alternative form of antialiasing
Synonyms
Examples
1) A diagonal line on a 1-bit display. 2) Grayscale anti-aliasing. 3) Identical to 1, but on a color monitor. 4) Rendered with direct control of each color subpixel. 5) Smaller version of 1-4. 6) 1 pixel lines without and with anti-aliasing.
And in future scenarios, screens will have sufficiently high resolution that gray-scale anti-aliasing should suffice."
Cameras that use a beam-splitter single-shot 3CCD approach, three-filter multi-shot approach, color co-site sampling or Foveon X3 sensor do not use anti-aliasing filters, nor demosaicing.
ClearType uses spatial anti-aliasing at the subpixel level to reduce visible artifacts on such displays when text is rendered, making the text appear "smoother" and less jagged.
More recently, the correct use of the typographic apostrophe is becoming more common on the Web due to the wide adoption of the Unicode text encoding standard, higher-resolution displays, and advanced anti-aliasing of text in modern operating systems.
So multi-sample anti-aliasing improves image quality by supersampling depth, stencil, and blending, but shades only Multiple samples are later resolved into a final image using simple averaging.