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There are five filter methods: Box, Gauss, Triangle, Mitchell, or Lanczos. Box,
the default, is the quickest. Mitchell is often the most accurate. The Box filter
combines samples evenly, without weighting them. Each of the other filters
uses a particular curve to weight samples before combining them.
Anti-aliasing techniques involve at least two trade-offs.
■ Extra calculation. Pixels in the offending line or boundary and neighboring
pixels in the background must be analyzed so that intermediate shades
can be added.
■ Thicker lines. Although an anti-aliased line appears smoother, it must be
thicker than a jagged one.
You have to decide how much time you want to spend rendering and how
good you want the final rendering to be. These trade-offs will depend partly
on the hardware you're using and partly on the audience for your work.
The standard render presets offer five levels of anti-aliasing. Draft is set to use
the lowest level of anti-aliasing, but it provides the fastest rendering speed.
Each successive level is slower to compute. The anti-aliasing algorithm makes
the process more efficient by allowing the program to decide for any given
pixel that fewer samples need to be computed.
Quick Reference
Commands
RENDER
Creates a photorealistic or realistically shaded image of a 3D solid or surface
model.
RPREF
Displays or hides the Advanced Render Settings palette for access to advanced
rendering settings.
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