Скачать или смотреть Why 3D Acceleration Looks Better Than Software Rendering: Bilinear Filtering Explained [4K Upload]

Our viewer framebuffer tipped us off to Youtube's reencoding which blurs the video and makes it harder to see the ugliness of nearest-neighbor interpolation. Thanks! I upscaled to 4k, which triggers Youtube to use a better encoder.

We're spinning up a set of sub-5-minute videos to cover 90s and 00s PC hardware topics, called Smug and Play Explains.

With the help of glQuake, this video covers bilinear filtering and mipmapping and why these techniques look better than software rendered games using nearest-neighbor interpolation.

We hope you like how the new series complements our games and hardware content. Please tell us what you think about it in the comments, and it will influence our next video in the series.


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