Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Guerin
Colin Howarth wrote: I posted a couple of little screen shots (which compressed nicely to 16k and 30k or so) to the quartz-dev list. I got an automated reply that they're awaiting moderator approval (for having gone over 20k). Probably, if and when the images are posted, someone will say,

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Colin Howarth
On 8 Oct, 2009, at 01:19, Greg Guerin wrote: Colin Howarth wrote: I don't know enough about what Quartz is doing. For instance, does it calculate the coverage of a pixel (i.e. the fraction covered) as a float and then use that times 255 for pixel values (for black on white) giving 256 steps

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Guerin
Colin Howarth wrote: I don't know enough about what Quartz is doing. For instance, does it calculate the coverage of a pixel (i.e. the fraction covered) as a float and then use that times 255 for pixel values (for black on white) giving 256 steps. Or does it quantize down to 16 steps, for e

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Colin Howarth
On 7 Oct, 2009, at 23:13, Dave Keck wrote: Try applying a 0.25 or 0.5 pixel shadow that's the same color as whatever you're drawing. (This technique has worked very well for me in the past for getting a smoother look.) I'll give it a go. In fact eventually I'll end up calculating what the va

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Keck
Try applying a 0.25 or 0.5 pixel shadow that's the same color as whatever you're drawing. (This technique has worked very well for me in the past for getting a smoother look.) Also, I've found that offsetting my drawing code by fractions of pixels can help, but usually in the opposite case where I

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Ken Ferry
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Colin Howarth wrote: > On 7 Oct, 2009, at 22:19, Alastair Houghton wrote: > >> On 7 Oct 2009, at 21:11, Colin Howarth wrote: >> >> I'm surprised that the output on screen doesn't look better. >>> >> >> Usually Quartz does an extremely good job... >> > > I know. Th

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Colin Howarth
On 7 Oct, 2009, at 22:19, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 7 Oct 2009, at 21:11, Colin Howarth wrote: I'm surprised that the output on screen doesn't look better. Usually Quartz does an extremely good job... I know. That's why I'm confused. Are there any other settings I can adjust with regard

Re: feeble anti-aliasing

2009-10-07 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 7 Oct 2009, at 21:11, Colin Howarth wrote: I'm surprised that the output on screen doesn't look better. Usually Quartz does an extremely good job... Are there any other settings I can adjust with regard to the anti- aliasing? (Not talking about flatness of Bezier curves here). Is this p