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It's overreach to say high DPI displays eliminate the need for anti-aliasing. You will still get shimmering, pixel popping, and temporal aliasing, it will just
by cromwellian 14y ago
It's overreach to say high DPI displays eliminate the need for anti-aliasing. You will still get shimmering, pixel popping, and temporal aliasing, it will just be harder to notice. If you have thin shapes like hanging cables or chain-link fences being displayed, even at high resolution, you will get pixels coming in and out of existence. Higher sampled AA tends to add spatial "stability" so that slight shifts of viewpoint won't trigger this.
- bhauer 14y agoAuthor here. You're right, high-DPI does not actually eliminate aliasing and I've toned done the wording slightly (added "nearly"). Certainly high-DPI is a huge step in the right direction even if several problems with aliasing remain. I was simply attempting to say "thank you" to Apple for innovating with high-DPI displays so that I could follow that by saying more or less what you did: many things remain to address image clarity.