DTE Tutorial

June 20, 1999 in Uncategorized

I led a hands-on how-to session on the DTE (Deep Texture Editor) in Brycetalk. The posted log is [no longer on the MetaCreations web site. It may show up here sometime] There are scene files and rendered image resources for you here on my site, too.

What is AuntiAlias, anyhow?

AuntiAlias is a pun on the word antialias. In computer graphics, anti-aliasing is the process of adding what seems to be blurry in-between pixels to smooth the image so it won't appear so "jaggy." The pun came about in the early days of Bryce, the 3D landscape software. Bryce's final rendering pass is anti-aliasing. On the software's support boards, I'd sign my posts as "Auntie Alias." I thought, "Hey, I'll make that into a screen name!" The 10-character limit resulted in this spelling you see here: auntialias.