> There's a hack on my BBS and probably AmiNet called Smooth which does
> anti-aliasing on high colour screens. It has a 30 minute timeout and
> doesn't appear to have been updated, so perhaps someone could poke at
> it and find out how it does it.
I know exactly how it does it: it takes the font, smears it in 4 directions
and
takes the average of the pixels it gets out: where 4 pixels overlap it's
full
darkness, where 3 2 or 1 it's less so.
It's not real anti-aliasing, it's more blurring the edges. Plus it's a hack.
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Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester
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