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I never heard of this AA

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thing I don't even need AA but seriously

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guys I'm not talking about Alcoholics Anonymous I'm talking about

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anti-aliasing which refers to the technology that removes jaggies or the

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staircase effect from your video games in real time making them appear smoother

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so where the heck do jaggies come from well the images on your computer screen

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are made up of tiny squares called pixels whereas real objects have rounded

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Corners so what happens is when you take a bunch of squares and line them up you

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end up with a nice straight line that looks perfect but then what happens if

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you try to draw a diagonal line that's where the squares end up corner to

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corner and you end up with that staircase effect that looks quite

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unappealing now there are a wide variety of different kinds of anti-aliasing the

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most basic being msaa or multi- sample anti-aliasing and some more advanced

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newer ones like FXAA which is a faster

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more approximate style of anti-aliasing from NVIDIA but they all work in

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fundamentally the same way that is to say that they take the missing data in

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that line and they go okay well there's there's a gap here but we're going to

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take samples all around it and try to fill in the approximate data that should

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be there in order to make the image look more pleasing to the user I call

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anti-aliasing fake resolution you're always better off to increase the

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resolution to get a more clear image hence something like Apple's Retina

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Display where rather than using using anti-aliasing tricks they actually are

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just squeezing more pixels into the point where your eye can't even tell

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that it's a square block anymore but if you don't have that option anti-aliasing

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is a way of making it look smoother and higher resolution without actually

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upgrading the display device that you're using thank you for checking out this

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explanation on Techquickie for anti-aliasing and as always don't forget

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