Analytic Anti-Aliasing of Linear Functions on Polytopes

  • Authors:
  • T. Auzinger;M. Guthe;S. Jeschke

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Technology, Austria;Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany;Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents an analytic formulation for anti-aliased sampling of 2D polygons and 3D polyhedra. Our framework allows the exact evaluation of the convolution integral with a linear function defined on the polytopes. The filter is a spherically symmetric polynomial of any order, supporting approximations to refined variants such as the Mitchell-Netravali filter family. This enables high-quality rasterization of triangles and tetrahedra with linearly interpolated vertex values to regular and non-regular grids. A closed form solution of the convolution is presented and an efficient implementation on the GPU using DirectX and CUDA C is described. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.