Talk:Anisotropic filtering

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[edit] "Steeply from the camera"

I was curious about this technique, but as a layman I'm having trouble understanding this phrase - does it mean perpendicularly from the camera, as in a flat plane with the face towards the camera, or a flat plane just off of parallel (i.e. a few degrees off)? 148.177.129.213 14:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

It means that the tangent plane of the surface in question is close to parallel to the direction the viewer is looking in. Look at these (non-GFDL, alas) screenshots for examples: [1][2] —Simetrical (talk) 17:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "POV"

Notice the use of first-person plural. This is not an encyclopedic tone.Jeremyburkhart

[edit] "Antistopic filtering..."

I'm only beginning to learn about Anisotropic and wanted to double-check to see if "antistopic" is a typographical error in this entry.

yes, it is, thanks for catching that. fixed. - Valarauka(T/C) 17:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The link to "The Naked Truth About Anisotropic Filtering" should be removed. This article is obsolete, partially plain wrong, misleading and of low quality. Sorry I have to say that but the author failed to see the benefits of AF as much as to provide proper example pictures. The pictures in this Wikipedia article are much better in this concern anyway.

[edit] Serious edit rot

There have been some serious errors introduced here due to people editing who perhaps never understood the original text.

I've corrected those and tried to avoid some of the confusion that may have led to those edits.

Please don't alter this unless you intimately understand the description folks. Specifically RIP mapping really does mean RIP mapping where written in is not MIP mapping (FYI Rory096).

Perhaps we shouldn't use RIP mapping to convey anisotropic filtering, but that requires a more extensive rewrite, certainly substituting RIP with MIP does not help ;-) It is inherently technical and I think that the image in the article combined with the introduction conveys to the layperson what it is and the detailed description is there for the technically minded.

[edit] "16-tap"

Where in the world did this come from? It's never defined, just used. What is it? 66.192.186.99 (talk) 23:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)