All sources seem to indicate that the first practical solutions to antialiasing were invented Frank Crow computer graphics pioneer who incidentally works for nVIDIA these days in   Earliest reference I could find was The Aliasing Problem in ComputerGenerated Shaded Images Communications of the ACM vol  pp  Nov   Of course Ive also seen mentions of work done at the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in  but I have not seen any references to published papers   Jan   UTC