James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Jon Smirl wrote: > The fonts are drawn 3X as wide as you want. After filtering the 3x > width is collapsed down into a single pixel which converts to to a > three component alpha channel. The three components correspond to > the RGB pixels of LCD sub-pixel rendering. > > There is a paper about this on the Microsoft site. > Since this would seem to be impossible, it would be a very interesting paper to read.
Subpixel rendering, you mean? No, it's very possible. Definitely an interesting trick. Here's a few links with nice pictures and examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering http://www.grc.com/cleartype.htm http://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm (and other links from the cleartype page). Although it is said in several places that sub-pixel rendering "only works on LCD monitors", I also found a page that demonstrated that it worked quite nicely on CRTs, too, although for different reasons (basically it reduces to anti-aliasing on CRTs). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
