Re: [Algorithms] mip mapping is evil!

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

Jon Watte wrote:

> The actual sampling sources we have are digital camera CCDs, which 
> aren't quite box filter weighted, and artist renditions, which are 
> using some weighting the artist and his/her tool has internalized 
> in their work habits; neither of these are easy to measure or 
> calculate an optimal filter for.

That's only true if you use the imagery at it's raw source resolution.

However, if you take your digital photograph with a six megapixel
camera and down-filter that to a 512x512 for use in a game, you have
pretty good control of the filtering!

The same thing applies to hand-made artwork in most cases.  Have your
artists work at much higher resolution than you intend to use and
filter it yourself with algorithms you can control.

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