one stupied question.... AA???

Anti-aliasing removes the pixelation from curved objects that are drawn on your screen.

obviously when you try to draw a curve with square/rectangular pixels you get corners sticking out around the edge. Anti-aliasing smoths these so that curves look more round.

I should mention its not just curves, but it allows you to picture it better. sometimes lines are drawn diagnolly that also have ugly blocky looks.

If you use windows open paint and draw a line accross the screen. diaganolly. See what I mean.

hi,
I'm gonna use your topic to advance your question to the next level... how does AA work? does it apply some sort of edge finding algorithm? or does it happen on the entire picture at the same time? does someone here know it?

you're right... I'm just being lazy, I don't want too much depth in the explanation and that's hard to find.