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CS 445 / CS 645. Antialiasing. Today. Final Exam Thursday, December 13 th at 7:00 Project 4-1 Out Movies. Samples. Sampling Errors. Some objects missed entirely, others poorly sampled. Supersampling. Take more than one sample for each pixel and combine them
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CS 445 / CS 645 Antialiasing
Today • Final Exam • Thursday, December 13th at 7:00 • Project 4-1 Out • Movies
Sampling Errors • Some objects missed entirely, others poorly sampled
Supersampling • Take more than one sample for each pixel and combine them • Do you actually render more pixels? • Can you combine the few pixels you have? • How many samples is enough? • How do we know no features are lost?
Unweighted Area Sampling • Average supersampled points • All points are weighted equally
Weighted Area Sampling • Points in pixel are weighted differently • Flickering occurs as object movesacross display • Overlapping regions eliminates flicker
How is this done today?Full Screen Antialiasing • Nvidia GeForce2 • OpenGL: scale image 400% and supersample • Direct3D: scale image 400% - 1600% • 3Dfx Multisampling • 2- or 4-frame shift and average • Nvidia GeForce3 • Multisampling but with fancy overlaps • ATI SmoothVision • Programmer selects samping pattern
GeForce3 • Multisampling • After each pixel is rendered, write pixel value to two different places in frame buffer
GeForce3 - Multisampling • After rendering two copies of entire frame • Shift pixels of Sample #2 left and up by ½ pixel • Imagine laying Sample #2 (red) over Sample #1 (black)
GeForce3 - Multisampling • Resolve the two samples into one image by computing average between each pixel from Sample 1 (black) and the four pixels from Sample 2 (red) that are 1/ sqrt(2) pixels away
GeForce3 - Multisampling • No AA Multisampling
GeForce3 - Multisampling • 4x Supersample Multisampling
Signal Theory • Convert spatial signal to frequency domain
Signal Theory • Represent spatial signal as sum of sine waves (varying amplitude and phase shift)
Fourier Analysis • Convert spatial domain to frequency domain • U is a complex number representing amplitude and phase shift • i = sqrt (-1)
Fourier Transform • Examples of spatial and frequency domains
Nyquist Rate • The lower bound on the sampling rate equals twice the highest frequency component in the image’s spectrum • This lower bound is the Nyquist Rate
Flaws with Nyquist Rate • Samples may not align with peaks
Flaws with Nyquist Rate • When sampling below Nyquist Rate, resulting signal looks like a lower-frequency one
Sampling in the Frequency Domain • Remember, sampling was defined as multiplying a grid of delta functions by the continuous image • This is called a convolution in frequency domain The sampling grid The function beingsampled
Convolution • This amounts to accumulating copies of the function’s spectrum sampled at the delta functions of the sampling grid
Filtering • To lower Nyquist rate, remove high frequencies from image: low-pass filter • Only low frequencies remain • Sinc function is common filter: • sinc(x) = sin (px)/px Frequency Domain Spatial Domain
Sinc Filter • Slide filter along spatial domain and compute new pixel value that results from convolution
Bilinear Filter • Sometimes called a tent filter • Easy to compute • just linearly interpolate between samples • Finite extent and no negative values • Still has artifacts