Comments on: Anti-aliasing fonts is really stupid http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/03/21/anti-aliasing-fonts-is-really-stupid/ Internet Gaming, Computer Games, Technology, MMO, and Web 2.0 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:58 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: adam http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/03/21/anti-aliasing-fonts-is-really-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 adam Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:48:08 +0000 http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/03/21/anti-aliasing-fonts-is-really-stupid/#comment-2093 That's largely because the colour black (which is really "dark white") does not exist even in the real world, and is instead made up of a shade of red, a shade of blue, and one or two shades of green/yellow. This does not change the fact that humans see "black" as a colour distinct from, say, "red". Nor does it change the fact that if you display "red" when you are supposed to be displaying "black", on a good-enough monitor it is highly noticeable to a human with good eyesight as being "not black". You apparently have Missed the Point of the entire exercise - both the fundamental properties of light as perceived by the human eye, and the fact that monitor/display technology has improved vastly over the last 20 years. That’s largely because the colour black (which is really “dark white”) does not exist even in the real world, and is instead made up of a shade of red, a shade of blue, and one or two shades of green/yellow.

This does not change the fact that humans see “black” as a colour distinct from, say, “red”.

Nor does it change the fact that if you display “red” when you are supposed to be displaying “black”, on a good-enough monitor it is highly noticeable to a human with good eyesight as being “not black”.

You apparently have Missed the Point of the entire exercise – both the fundamental properties of light as perceived by the human eye, and the fact that monitor/display technology has improved vastly over the last 20 years.

]]> By: Silly wabbit. http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/03/21/anti-aliasing-fonts-is-really-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 Silly wabbit. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:26:23 +0000 http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/03/21/anti-aliasing-fonts-is-really-stupid/#comment-2092 It’s doing it by changing the colours of the text as well, which IS noticeable to most people - black-on-white text is actually rendered as “black+red+blue text on white”. Man! Are you sitting down! Because I have even more *SCANDALOUS* information for you! I have a *SHOCKING* revelation for you... The text is actually rendered without any black at all! Even something that looks black is made of red green and blue. Stunning, I know! Even worse, TV makers have been tricking us like this since the 1950's! - using ***EVEN*** ***BLURRIER*** screens, where the pixels don't even line up! More shockingly, the evil madmen have been using a trick called "Interlacing" an insidious technique where the pixels are lined up in a triangular pattern so that they can get away with ripping us off by only sending half a picture at a time! What are they trying to do to our brains?!?!?!?!? It’s doing it by changing the colours of the text as well, which IS noticeable to most people – black-on-white text is actually rendered as “black+red+blue text on white”.

Man! Are you sitting down! Because I have even more *SCANDALOUS* information for you!

I have a *SHOCKING* revelation for you… The text is actually rendered without any black at all! Even something that looks black is made of red green and blue. Stunning, I know!

Even worse, TV makers have been tricking us like this since the 1950’s! – using ***EVEN*** ***BLURRIER*** screens, where the pixels don’t even line up!

More shockingly, the evil madmen have been using a trick called “Interlacing” an insidious technique where the pixels are lined up in a triangular pattern so that they can get away with ripping us off by only sending half a picture at a time!

What are they trying to do to our brains?!?!?!?!?

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