I have discovered a way to anti-alias images even more. In fact it's not just for Vue either....you have one month to wait before this 'secret' is released. If you've seen my newer images and how much cleaner and smoother they look it's because I used this technique. 10-10-01

It wouldn't involve rendering a picture larger that you want it and then resizing it smaller, would it? Otherwise, please let us know when you're secret is out. :)

That's so funny.....it's not that easy if it were we'd see a lot better looking images here. As it is it's easy but nobody does it. You will think it sounds stupid....like it won't affect the quality...like you already knew it...or so easy you'll be mad you didn't think of it. Whichever. People do however know about this....accomplished people, people known well on here and they didn't know about it, they do now. Can't tell who either, if you notice you notice. 1 month to flood the scene with better rendered images.

KiDace, Looking at your images, I hope that you will be giving recognition to the actual person who has been using this technique in his Terragen images for over a year now. Although I have seen this technique used within the CG industry, Kees has been using this technique very effectively in his Terragen images, along with resampling the final image.

OK, I'm lost. What'd I miss?

That makes 2 of us Mike... :)

Cheers you lost me too. What are you talking about? Recognition to who for what? I used nothing from anybody.

I found no reference to the person you were talking about this Kees or kees. Therefore there is no way I can be using this person's technique if they don't exist. So who is this person and what technique? If "kees" has been around for a year with terragen and I've had it since May and you are comparing me to that person I guess I've learned fast and do pretty good...but I'm still lost.

Attached Link: http://home-1.worldonline.nl/%7Eveenen/index_frame.html

Kees Veenenbos is his name: http://home-1.worldonline.nl/%7Eveenen/index_frame.html If you look at the TerraCon site, you will also notice that the technique is used quite a bit by various people, when they are looking for a crisper looking image. If I remember rightly, a detailed explanation of the technique was given on the Terragen Yahoo group last year...I will see if I can dig it up. In no way was I making any comparisons KiDace, there is more to art than anti-alaising techniques. Cheers (TerraCon winner October 2000 ;) )

Ohhh, MikePaul I did forget to mention for you guys, that a similiar result can be achieved just as easily with an Unsharp mask ;) Cheers

OH...OK. So...that's new? ;) Oh, and congrats on the TerraCon thing! :)

Well, while the technique isn't new, it is far from perfect. Most programms generate their antialiasing differently from photoshop, using stronger antialiasing in far off regions than those closer to the viewer and so on. Photoshop cannot emulate this behaviour. The original idea for this technique was developed by the guys who did Babylon 5 because they had to cut rendertimes short. I could not find any increase in quality. Joerg