<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>This was called frequency clamping in the book &amp;#x27;advanced renderman&amp;#x27; which talks a lot about procedural textures.&lt;p&gt;A simple way to think about it is to imagine a pattern of thin black and white stripes. If you go far enough away from the pattern, there will be multiple black and white stripes in the same pixel.  When they are smaller than a pixel the average color will be grey. Knowing this, you can fade to grey as the stripes get tiny instead of arriving at grey from heavy sampling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Band-Limiting Procedural Textures</title><url>https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/bandlimiting/bandlimiting.htm</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwhitehead</author><text>This is awesome! This reminds me of MinBLEP audio synthesis of discontinuous functions (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&amp;#x2F;~eli&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;icmc01-hardsync.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&amp;#x2F;~eli&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;icmc01-hardsync.pdf&lt;/a&gt;). Instead of doing things at high sampling rate and explicitly filtering, generate the band-limited version directly.&lt;p&gt;In the article, talking about smoothstep approximation of sinc: &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d argue the smoothstep version looks better&amp;quot; Why would this be? I would have thought the theoretically correct sinc version would look nicer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Band-Limiting Procedural Textures</title><url>https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/bandlimiting/bandlimiting.htm</url></story>