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- From: dethomas@unix.amherst.edu (Dennis E Thomas '**)
- Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:55:05 GMT
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- Ben Sim (bsim@quark) wrote:
- :
- : dethomas writes:
- :
- : : A game doesn't
- : : have to be anti-aliased into oblivion because it *can* and that is what
- : : it seems frequently happens on SNES games, too many colors thrown in
- : : because they can be, not because they are relevant to the image being
- : : drawn.
- :
- : What's meant by that statement? anti-aliasing improves the smoothness of
- : the graphics, hence better graphics. What's irrelevant about better
- : graphics on a video game? I guess you like crude graphics ala the old
- : Atari 2600.
-
- First of all, I am writing this really pissed off from things that have
- nothing to do with you, so please take my more inflammatory comments
- with a grain of salt.
-
- That out of the way, what the hell are you talking about? If two colors
- are _supposed_ to contrast each other, than there is no goddamned reason
- to anti-alias it!!! In wing commander, there is no reason to do that to
- the screen. It's supposed to be a stark background, and they anti-aliased
- the damned thing.
-
- As to the rest of your statement, I think you need to get a lesson in
- logic son. My dislike of SNES graphics in general, and WC in particular,
- are because of an inappropriate style, nothing more, nothing less. I said
- that plain as day, and if you read something else in it, then the mistake
- is yours and I wish you would go the hell away.
-
- later days!
- --dt
-
- --
- Dennis Thomas '**
- Nerd For Hire, Budding Unix Weenie, and Mythical Figure.
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