Ask HN: How does software smooth lines?

2 pointsby theterriblestidabout 5 years ago

Photoshop and other digital paint apps have a “smoothing” option that causes lines drawn to be curvier. What’s the math of it?

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gus_massaabout 5 years ago

I'm not an specialist, but you can start with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing</a>

billconanabout 5 years ago

you can read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-spline" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-spline</a><p>most of them simply use a lasso method.