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Subject: Re: artifacting
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Adrian Onson writes:>
> I have one small question..... What is artifacting?!? I heard so
>much about it and the fact that the PAR produces considerabls
>artifacting, but I have no idea what it is... can someone please answer
>my question?!?!?!
This is incorrect. The PAR >>>may<<< produce artifacting on
specific image types, but generally produces wonderful images. To generalize,
the more "computerish" the image, the worst the artifacting. (Yet another
reason to try for naturalism in your animations.)
Artifacts are simply errors in the picture, generated by the com-