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I don't have greyscale font software or pointers to any but I have a
bunch of references. No multiplane displays to play with around here
:-(.  I suppose that to make some homebrew greyscale fonts for TeX
previewing one could get METAFONT to generate 16x normal resolution,
then run a filter over the bitmap. I hear somebody already did this.
There is one catch: a 16x16 block has 0 bit to 256 bit occupancy, not 0
to 255!

	Ken

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From: avi@hpcehfe.HP.COM (Avi Naiman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: anti-aliasing
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Date: 13 Feb 87 23:05:26 GMT
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Here is a bibliography I've put together on filtering text for grayscale
displays (anti-aliasing is only one part of the problem) and related topics
such as the Human Visual System and Digital Typography.

If anyone knows of other relevant references, I'd appreciate hearing about them.


Bige83    Bigelow, C. and D.  Day,  ``Digital  Typography,''
          Scientific  American, Volume 249, Number 2, August
          1983, pp. 106-119.

Blac46    Blackwell, H. R.,  ``Contrast  Thresholds  of  the
          Human  Eye,''  Journal  of  the Optical Society of
          America, Volume 36, 1946, pp. 642-643.

Bruc86    Bruckstein, A. M., ``On  Optimal  Image  Digitiza-
          tion,''  Electrical Engineering Publication Number
          577, Faculty of Electrical  Engineering,  Technion
          Israel  Institute  of  Technology,  Haifa, Israel,
          February 1986.

Buck77    Buckler, A. T., ``A Review of  the  Literature  on
          the  Legibility  of  AlphaNumerics  on  Electronic
          Displays,'' Technical Memo 16-77, U. S. Army Human
          Engineering  Laboratory, Aberdeen  Proving Ground,
          Maryland, May 1977.

Catm79    Catmull,  E.,    ``A   Tutorial  on   Compensation
          Tables,''  Computer Graphics, Volume 13, Number 2,
          August 1979, pp. 1-7.  SIGGRAPH 1979 Proceedings.

Corn70    Cornsweet,  T.  N.,  Visual  Perception,  Academic
          Press, New York, 1970.

Crow78    Crow, F. C., ``The Use of Grayscale  for  Improved
          Raster  Display  of Vectors and Characters,'' Com-
          puter Graphics, Volume 12, Number 3, August  1978,
          pp. 1-6.  SIGGRAPH 1978 Proceedings.

Goul84    Gould, J. D. and N. Grischkowsky, ``Doing the Same
          Work  with  Hard  Copy  and  with Cathode-Ray Tube
          (CRT) Computer Terminals,'' Human Factors,  Volume
          26, Number 3, June 1984, pp. 323-337.

Gupt81    Gupta, S. and R. F. Sproull, ``Filtering Edges for
          Gray-Scale  Displays,''  Computer Graphics, Volume
          15, Number 3, August 1981, pp. 1-5.  SIGGRAPH 1981
          Proceedings.

Kaji81    Kajiya, J. and M. Ullner, ``Filtering High Quality
          Text  for  Display  on Raster Scan Devices,'' Com-
          puter Graphics, Volume 15, Number 3  August  1981,
          pp. 7-15.  SIGGRAPH 1981 Proceedings.

Koba80    Kobayashi, S. C.,  ``Optimization  Algorithms  for
          Grayscale  Fonts,''  B.  Sc. Thesis, Department of
          Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  Mas-
          sachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  Cambridge,
          Massachusetts, June 1980.

Lele80    Leler, W. J., ``Human Vision,  Anti-Aliasing,  and
          the  Cheap 4000 Line Display,'' Computer Graphics,
          Volume 14, Number 3, July 1980, pp. 308-313.  SIG-
          GRAPH 1980 Proceedings.

Naim85    Naiman, A.  C.,  ``High-Quality  Text  for  Raster
          Displays,''  M. Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer
          Science, University of Toronto, Toronto,  Ontario,
          1985.

Negr80    Negroponte,  N.,  ``Soft   Fonts,''   Proceedings,
          Society for Information Display, 1980.

Prat78    Pratt, W. K., Digital Image Processing, John Wiley
          and Sons, New York, 1978.

Schm83    Schmandt, C., ``Fuzzy Fonts,'' Proceedings of  the
          National Computer Graphics Association, 1983.

Seit79    Seitz, C., et al., ``Digital Video Display  System
          with  a  Plurality  of Gray-Scale Levels,'' United
          States Patent Number 4,158,200.

Shol82    Sholtz,  P.  N.,  ``Making  High-Quality   Colored
          Images  on  Raster  Displays,''  Computer  Science
          Research Report RC9632 (#42528), IBM T. J.  Watson
          Research   Center,  Yorktown  Heights,  NY  10598,
          October 1982.

Shur80    Shurtleff, D. A., How to  Make  Displays  Legible,
          Human  Interface  Design,  La  Mirada, California,
          1980.

Warn80    Warnock, J. E., ``The Display of Characters  Using
          Gray  Level  Sample  Arrays,''  Computer Graphics,
          Volume 14, Number 3, July 1980, pp. 302-307.  SIG-
          GRAPH 1980 Proceedings.