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none I ever heard this hasting i'll even need a a but seriously guys I'm not talking about Alcoholics Anonymous I'm talking about anti-aliasing which refers to the technology that removes jaggies or the staircase effect from your video games in real time making them appear smoother so where the heck dude jaggies come from well the images on your computer screen are made up of tiny squares called pixels whereas real objects have rounded corners so what happens is when you take a bunch of squares and line them up you end up with a nice straight line that looks perfect but then what happens if you try to draw a diagonal line that's where the squares end up corner to corner and you end up with that staircase effect that looks quite unappealing now there are a wide variety of different kinds of anti-aliasing the most basic being msaa or multisample anti-aliasing and some more advanced newer ones like fxaa which is a faster more approximate style of anti-aliasing from Nvidia but they all work in fundamentally the same way that is to say that they take the missing data in that line and they go okay well there's there's a gap here but we're going to take samples all around it and try to fill in the approximate data that should be there in order to make the image look more pleasing to the user I call anti-aliasing fake resolution you're always better off to increase the resolution to get a more clear image hence something like Apple's Retina display where rather than using anti-aliasing tricks they actually are just squeezing more pixels in to the point where you're I can't even tell that it's a square block anymore but if you don't have that option anti-aliasing is a way of making it look smoother and higher resolution without actually upgrading the display device that you're using thank you for checking out this explanation on tech wiki for anti aliasing and as always don't forget to share the video don't forget to like the video and don't forget to subscribe for more fast as possible topics just like this one