Sampling, aliasing, and antialiasing (part I)

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring Quarter, 1995
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, May 2

Table of contents:

• Sampling and reconstruction
  1. Overview
  2. Looking at venetian blinds through a screen (sampling)
  3. Solution A: finer screen (raising the sampling rate)
  4. Solution B: blur the venetians (bandlimiting)
  5. Example of convolution: rect function
  6. Looking at a photo of the scene mounted on the screen (reconstruction)
  7. Aliasing versus reconstruction error

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