Bij Reverend's 3D Pulpit zijn een tweetal interessante artikelen neergezet over anisotropic filtering. Anisotropic filtering is mogelijk met een GeForce3 en is een soort uitbreiding van het bekende bilinear en trilinear texture filtering. Met behulp van een aantal screenshots en een filmpje wordt duidelijk gemaakt hoeveel beter de texture kwaliteit wordt met behulp van bilinear en trilinear anisotropic filtering. Hieronder een klein beetje informatie over anisotropic filtering en een tweetal stukjes screenshot:
The GeForce3 is capable of anisotropic filtering. It is a "hidden" feature in that various NVIDIA driver versions starting from the 11.01 on up : 1) has an official "Enable Anisotropic Filtering" checkbox in its OpenGL control panel but this does not work ; while at the same time 2) the GeForce3 is capable of various anisotropic degree (16, 32 and 64-tap) In order to access and enable the various anisotropic filtering modes, registry editing is needed at the moment when it comes to the 11.01 (and beyond) driver versions. This is explained in my review of the VisionTek GeForce3 at Beyond3D. Please refer to that review if you want to know the registry details. Anisotropic filtering primarily affects two things : (A) curing excessive blurring with other texture filtering methods like bilinear and trilinear filtering (B) curing overly-aggresive Level-Of-Detail mipmaps and/or texture aliasing
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