On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 3:45:00 PM PDT Francisco Jerez wrote: > Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org> writes: > > > The original Broadwater and Crestline platforms computed antialiased > > line distances using "manhattan" distance, aka a + b = c. Eaglelake > > and Cantiga added "true" distance, aka a^2 + b^2 = c^2, which is > > obviously superior. > > > > The hardware docs are incredibly optimistic calling the improved AA line > distance mode "true", in reality the strips and fans unit does something > along the lines of 'max(a, b) + min(a, b) / 4' in "true" distance mode > in order to avoid calculating the square root. At any rate, it's still > better than manhattan. Series is: > > Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <curroje...@riseup.net>
Oh, right, this is True(tm) distance...I'd forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder! I've removed the pythagoreon theorem from the commit message and replaced it with yours, and dropped the "obviously" part of the comment :) --Ken
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