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Article #486Re: Gray Scale Fonts in an Application
From: David Lively
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 13:52
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 13:52
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David Spector (ds@primerd.prime.com) writes: I'm not as sure as you are about the value of grays in characters. The only improvement I can think of would be to dither curves so they appear more curvy to the eye. But I think this effect would be less noticeable than eliminating the gray bits in favor of improving the resolution. Some experiments would be useful and perhaps necessary for answering the question. This technique is called "anti-aliasing". I can't tell you much more than that. It seems to me that trading off the gray bits for more resolution would be preferable, but you might want to look at the research on anti-aliased fonts to see whether this is really true. - David
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