Cool, thanks for the tip neota. I think I know the Wu guy you're talking about, I remember using his line rastering algorithm in a program I wrote once.
I had a lot of trouble with that highlighted edge. It's times like those I'm tempted to use a vector curve, let an algorithm do the AA for me and then colour reduce. But I'm to much of a purist (perhaps masochist?) for that. ;)
I plan to rework this someday (make the controllers, etc), so I'll give your suggestion a shot then.
This is pretty well done, my only crit is the AA on the highlighted edge, from the edge to the top. I think it would benefit from Wu-ish* aa -- placing AA pixels at the points af greatest error. For instance, where you have segments of length 1,1,1,1,1,2,2,1 (near the corner) it would involve AAing the 2 versus the 1 and the 1 versus the 2. Which side to AA** on is still a matter of judgement.
Example Edit It tends to work best for areas that need to look sharp, since it minimizes amount of AA pixels.
*not Derek Wu. Some graphics technology guy.
** as in, when you have a line segment of length 2 and to the up-right, one of length 3, do you place an AA pixel to the right of the 2-length segment or to the left of the 3-length segment?
No no no... this be a PAL Dreamcast. ;) For some reason, Sega gave the PAL DC a blue logo, and the boot graphic on PAL games is blue too. I live in Australia, so this is what my DC looks like. ;)
The B.O.B. (Level 11 Master Assassin) @ 7/26/2005 19:48
Oh how I loved my dreamcast...WHY WORLD,WHY!!! ITS GRAPHICS WERE JUST AS GOOD AS PS2'S!!!...I like it, but isn't the blue swirl logo supposed to be an orange-red?
Blueberry_pie (Level 7 General Manager) @ 7/14/2005 07:46
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I had a lot of trouble with that highlighted edge. It's times like those I'm tempted to use a vector curve, let an algorithm do the AA for me and then colour reduce. But I'm to much of a purist (perhaps masochist?) for that. ;)
I plan to rework this someday (make the controllers, etc), so I'll give your suggestion a shot then.