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Bryce 4 Tips, Movies

October 5, 1999 in Uncategorized

While working on Real World Bryce 4, I’ve put together some assorted Bryce 4 tips (to grow, of course) and some fun test movies (requires QuickTime 3 or 4).

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.