Intel Details Handling Anti-Aliasing On CPUs 190
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from the upping-the-spec-of-normalcy dept.
MojoKid writes "When AMD launched their Barts GPU that powers the Radeon 6850 and 6870, they added support for a new type of anti-aliasing called Morphological AA (MLAA). However, Intel originally developed MLAA in 2009 and they have released a follow-up paper on the topic--including a discussion of how the technique could be handled by the CPU. Supersampling is much more computationally and bandwidth intensive than multisampling, but both techniques are generally too demanding of more horsepower than modern consoles or mobile devices are able to provide. Morphological Anti-aliasing, in contrast, is performed on an already-rendered image. The technique is embarrassingly parallel and, unlike traditional hardware anti-aliasing, can be effectively handled by the CPU in real time. MLAA is also equally compatible with ray tracing or rasterized graphics."
Re:Bah, humbug, tech writers need help (Score:2, Funny)
Sex. Sure, you and your SO may be so good at sex it only lasts a few seconds, but you'd never admit it in public.
Embarrassingly Parallel Processing is the same way.
Re:Bah, humbug, tech writers need help (Score:2, Funny)
Can amateur journalists PLEASE stop using the phrase "embarrassingly parallel" to describe software tasks? Who's embarrassed? Why are they embarrassed about designing something that can be efficiently processed?
No can do. Journalists all read each other, and when one comes up with a catchy term, they all pick up on it. This is especially true if they have no idea what they're writing about, or some editor thinks it's punchier or dramatic.
My pet peeve is "gun-toting." No one "totes" a firearm! If it's a pistol, you holster it. If it's a rifle, you sling it or shoulder it. I guess "armed" is too simple.
Re:Bah, humbug, tech writers need help (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot. Many here would be happy to admit to having an SO with whom they are having regular sex.
So would a lot of the people with SOs...
Re:Bah, humbug, tech writers need help (Score:4, Funny)
Translation: Damn, I was revealed as an ignoramus. How can I swing this back in my favor?