Multisample Anti-Aliasing

Computer Graphics · Anti-Aliasing and Filtering · msaa.yaml

Samples coverage and depth at several points per pixel but shades only once per covered primitive, which fixes geometric edges at a fraction of the cost and does nothing for shader aliasing.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• approximatesis a cheaper stand-in for Supersamplingsupersamples coverage but shades only once

Referenced by

• alternative-toMorphological Anti-Aliasing is a competing approach to thisreconstructs edges from the final image, no extra samples

References

• Background — Multisample anti-aliasing on Wikipedia