> A few years back, the Hebrew University and Microsoft set out to “depixelize” pixel art through a new anti-aliasing (pixel-smoothing) algorithm. I'm a big fa

> A few years back, the Hebrew University and Microsoft set out to “depixelize” pixel art through a new anti-aliasing (pixel-smoothing) algorithm. I'm a big fan of the pixel art look and I thought this was an interesting story, but this quote revealed fundamental misunderstanding about anti-aliasing. AA is not just smoothing. Sometimes high quality AA will actually yield a sharper result. Even the example image near the quote shows the result of the algorithms is clearly sharper (contains higher frequency features) than the original. Magnified-pixel edges really should not be considered a form of sharpness.