Patent ID: 6421060
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for creating anti-aliased images comprising the steps of:providing a subject to be rendered; defining an output resolution of a complete image to be generated by rendering the subject; dividing the complete image to be generated into a number of image portions to be generated, the number of the image portions being determined by an anti-aliasing quality, each image portion having a number of pixels determined by the output resolution of the complete image and the number of the image portions; processing the complete image by traversing the subject multiple times to create an intermediate image for each image portion to be generated, the intermediate image having a greater number of pixels than the image portion; determining each pixel within the image portion by averaging over blocks of pixels in the intermediate image; and combining the image portions to generate the complete anti-aliased image with the defined output resolution.