Re: Re: Question with regards to componentAlpha

Keith Packard <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:22:03 -0700

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Around 18 o'clock on Sep 24, Vadim Plessky wrote:

> Generally, one can greatly enhance the quality of anti-aliased text by
> using a different filter (for example, a conic filter on a 4x4 kernel),
> but this usually takes a _lot_ of CPU resources.

I suspect this research has been directed at CRT displays.  Given that LCD 
and DLP pixels are truely square, it seems that the box filter is actually 
a rather accurate choice.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab