ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP (09/19/86)
Gee, I hope we aren't about to see the usual onslaught of submissions on how to do antialising without ever having read anything at all on either the problem or on published solutions. There are standard places to go for this material (or any material in computer graphics). Start with either Newman and Sproull or Foley and van Dam. Then look at past SIGGRAPH proceedings and the half dozen or so standard journals in the field. If you don't have access to a good library for the journals, try to just get the ACM SIGGRAPH newsletter "Computer Graphics" and look through the bibliographies that have been published for the past couple of years. They are indexed by subject and keywords, so it should not be hard to find stuff on antialiasing (or other topics). If, after doing all that you still have unanswered questions, then is a good time to post something to the net. This will keep the net for what it was intended to be: a useful method for communicating new ideas among people who share a common interest (in our case computer graphics). It is certainly true that newcomers are always welcome, but newcomers should have the grace to realize that some effort is expected of them before they ask the rest of the world to do their homework.