“Antialiasing of curves by discrete pre-filtering” by Fabris and Forrest

Pre-filtering is generally considered the ideal approach to anti-aliasing but is difficult to perform exactly for complex geometries such as curves or for arbitrary choice of filters. We present a discrete pre-filtering technique for anti-aliasing Bézier curves using arbitrary filters which is numerically and geometrically robust and whose accuracy is controllable.

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