I had thought of that, but was hoping there was some more
straightforward way to anti-alias polygons that I was just
missing.
Bill
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Kyle Wayne Kelly wrote:
> Couldn't you define the lines around a character? After that do a scanline
> fill, and use anti-aliasing for the lines around the character.
>
> Kyle Wayne Kelly
> Computer Science Student
> University of New Orleans
> http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hibbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:26 PM
> Subject: [JAVA3D] I'd like to "anti-alias" small polygons
>
>
> > VisAD includes code to convert fonts to small polygons
> > for 3-D rendering. Each character converts to many polygons,
> > typically 50 to 70 polygons. However, the characters are very
> > hard to see when we zoom out.
> >
> > One possible fix might be anti-aliasing, but it only seems
> > to apply to lines and points, not polygons (it is in
> > LineAttributes and PointAttributes but not PolygonAttributes).
> >
> > Is there any way to anti-aliasing polygons? Or any other way
> > to make small characters composed of polygons look better when
> > zoomed out?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Bill Hibbard
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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