anti-alias

The stock anti-alias (AA) filter blocks a range of red wavelengths so the camera will render desireable skin tones. 656 nm is one of those wavelengths that also is emitted by emission nebula (star forming gas nebula).

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party on Vimeo 2010

Another thing I noticed over Christmas, browsing sites via Windows rather than Mac OS X, is that Windows browsers do not 'anti-alias' fonts.

IE: officially a piece of shit 2005

Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44. 1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings.

bt.etree.org 2010

Inkscape would then anti-alias the result, you can see how the reply icon is not rendered properly:

Miguel de Icaza 2010

Soundforge 5. 0b (48KHz - > 44. 1KHz at highest setting [4 of 4], with anti-alias filter) - > CD Wave 1.62 - > mkwACT v0. 97

bt.etree.org 2010

Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44. 1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings.

bt.etree.org 2010

Inkscape would then anti-alias the result, you can see how the reply icon is not rendered properly:

Planet GNOME 2010

Forced anti-alias now functions properly in "The Saboteur" game

Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed 2010

Use the magic wand to select parts of an image, set the tolerance and anti-alias options.

O'Reilly - Safari Books Online Colin Smith 2010

In-game anti-alias might fail to apply when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games

Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed 2010