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From: [e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits)
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Subject: Re: Small stars flicker
Date: 12 Feb 1995 20:38:19 -0700
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 >  On a related topic, I just did a flyby of a house with clapboard
 >  siding.  The siding was a simple luminance map of a horizontal
 >  line.
 >     Of course, it moire'd like hell.
 >     Anyway around this?  It seems intrinsic to the medium.

Not that this is really a practical solution, but on a couple of
occasions where I ran into bad moire problems due to lines or squares
at just the wrong distance from the camera, I resorted to rendering
in high-res. (Which is a real wally in 3.5, of course.)
This makes a dramatic improvement. More like what you would see on
real video footage.
Also, motion-blur gives much the same result by oversampling, or what-
ever they call it, the pixels.
Rendering in high-res gave better results in the particular situations
I tested, however.
Aside from reducing the contrast, or increasing the size of the lines,
I don't think there's an easy fix.
Oh, wait. What about pre-blurring the image map? Might help...



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