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  • 3d stroke tapered broken line

    Posted by Roger Burton on July 13, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Hi chaps, I think I have all of the ‘quality’ settings correct but my tapered 3d stroke is breaking up, this is at a sub-pixel level (ie the taper is so thin it’s smaller than a pixel) so no surprise really, anyone suggest the best solution to get rid of the breaking line … i pixel fast blur seems to do it bit with an obvious loss of brightness in the line … best Roger

    Roger Burton replied 13 years, 10 months ago 43,339 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Roger Burton

    July 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Thanks Mr LaRonde … I appreciate your help … ideally I want a thin white line tapering to nothing, I understand that because of anti-aliasing when the line gets really thin the pixelation ‘breaks up’ the smoothness of the line, I can almost solve this with a little blur … the attached image shows (on the left) my thin line tapering, the line on the right has 1 pixel of fast blur which ‘fills-in’ some of the gaps but obviously softens the line … I will go with this (and maybe even mask out the last very very thin bit of the line in order for a nice tidy finish) but wondered if there were a more elegant solution to the problem …

  • Roger Burton

    July 14, 2012 at 6:40 am

    I’ll have a further fiddle with the settings, thank you Dave.

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