Re: [9front] Thoughts on Wayland?

[Steve simon <steve@quintile.net>]

Not using anti aliasing on fonts does make them look sharper on a monitor.

However if you resize the resulting image, e.g. using a scaling monitor,
or resizing a screen-grab the result will most probably look vile; covered
in extra fringes or echos around letters (spacial alias)

Though interlaced video is becoming a thing of the past, people do still use interlace.
If you use interlaced,  and display text with non-anti-aliased fonts then you will get
temporal aliasing which is even nastier - the aliases will now flicker at interlace rate.

[ aside:
If you are suspicious that there may be temporal aliasing in moving video you can strobe out the alias frequency quite easily.
Look straight at the image and chomp your teeth together - The impact causes your eyeballs to oscillate,
The natural resonance of the muscles that control your your eyeballs is of the order of 20-30Hz.
Any temporal aliasing show now appear as static (or near static) spacial aliasing and be easy to spot.
I learnt this from Martin Weston, Very probably the cleverest person I have ever met
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