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GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
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    EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic  
  
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    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic  
  
homeprevnext Notice
  
    Copyright NVIDIA Corporation, 1999.  
  
homeprevnext Version
  
    NVIDIA Date: April 25, 2000  
    $Date$ $Revision$  
  
homeprevnext Number
  
    187  
  
homeprevnext Dependencies
  
    Written based on the wording of the OpenGL 1.2 specification.  
  
homeprevnext Overview
  
    Texture mapping using OpenGL's existing mipmap texture filtering  
    modes assumes that the projection of the pixel filter footprint into  
    texture space is a square (ie, isotropic).  In practice however, the  
    footprint may be long and narrow (ie, anisotropic).  Consequently,  
    mipmap filtering severely blurs images on surfaces angled obliquely  
    away from the viewer.  
  
    Several approaches exist for improving texture sampling by accounting  
    for the anisotropic nature of the pixel filter footprint into texture  
    space.  This extension provides a general mechanism for supporting  
    anisotropic texturing filtering schemes without specifying a  
    particular formulation of anisotropic filtering.  
  
    The extension permits the OpenGL application to specify on  
    a per-texture object basis the maximum degree of anisotropy to  
    account for in texture filtering.  
  
    Increasing a texture object's maximum degree of anisotropy may  
    improve texture filtering but may also significantly reduce the  
    implementation's texture filtering rate.  Implementations are free  
    to clamp the specified degree of anisotropy to the implementation's  
    maximum supported degree of anisotropy.  
  
    A texture's maximum degree of anisotropy is specified independent  
    from the texture's minification and magnification filter (as  
    opposed to being supported as an entirely new filtering mode).  
    Implementations are free to use the specified minification and  
    magnification filter to select a particular anisotropic texture  
    filtering scheme.  For example, a NEAREST filter with a maximum  
    degree of anisotropy of two could be treated as a 2-tap filter that  
    accounts for the direction of anisotropy.  Implementations are also  
    permitted to ignore the minification or magnification filter and  
    implement the highest quality of anisotropic filtering possible.  
  
    Applications seeking the highest quality anisotropic filtering  
    available are advised to request a LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR minification  
    filter, a LINEAR magnification filter, and a large maximum degree  
    of anisotropy.  
  
homeprevnext Issues
  
    Should there be a particular anisotropic texture filtering minification  
    and magnification mode?  
  
      RESOLUTION:  NO.  The maximum degree of anisotropy should control  
      when anisotropic texturing is used.  Making this orthogonal to  
      the minification and magnification filtering modes allows these  
      settings to influence the anisotropic scheme used.  Yes, such  
      an anisotropic filtering scheme exists in hardware.  
  
    What should the minimum value for MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISTROPY_EXT be?  
  
      RESOLUTION:  2.0.  To support this extension, at least 2 to 1  
      anisotropy should be supported.  
  
    Should an implementation-defined limit for the maximum maximum degree of  
    anisotropy be "get-able"?  
  
      RESOLUTION:  YES.  But you should not assume that a high maximum  
      maximum degree of anisotropy implies anything about texture  
      filtering performance or quality.  
  
    Should anything particular be said about anisotropic 3D texture filtering?  
  
      Not sure.  Does the implementation example shown in the spec for  
      2D anisotropic texture filtering readily extend to 3D anisotropic  
      texture filtering?  
  
homeprevnext New Procedures and Functions
  
    None  
  
homeprevnext New Tokens
  
    Accepted by the <pname> parameters of GetTexParameterfv,  
    GetTexParameteriv, TexParameterf, TexParameterfv, TexParameteri,  
    and TexParameteriv:  
  
        TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT          0x84FE  
  
    Accepted by the <pname> parameters of GetBooleanv, GetDoublev,  
    GetFloatv, and GetIntegerv:  
  
        MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT      0x84FF  
  
homeprevnext Additions to Chapter 2 of the 1.2 Specification (OpenGL Operation)
  
     None  
  
homeprevnext Additions to Chapter 3 of the 1.2 Specification (Rasterization)
  
 --  Sections 3.8.3 "Texture Parameters"  
  
     Add the following entry to the end of Table 3.17:  
  
     Name                         Type    Legal Values  
     --------------------------   ------  --------------------------  
     TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT   float   greater or equal to 1.0  
  
  
 --  Sections 3.8.5 "Texture Minification" and 3.8.6 "Texture Magnification"  
  
     After the first paragraph in Section 3.8.5:  
   
     "When the texture's value of TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT is equal to 1.0,  
     the GL uses an isotropic texture filtering approach as described in  
     this section and Section 3.8.6.  However, when the texture's value  
     of TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT is greater than 1.0, the GL implementation  
     should use a texture filtering scheme that accounts for a degree  
     of anisotropy up to the smaller of the texture's value of  
     TEXTURE_MAX_ANISTROPY_EXT or the implementation-defined value of  
     MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISTROPY_EXT.  
  
     The particular scheme for anisotropic texture filtering is  
     implementation dependent.  Additionally, implementations are free  
     to consider the current texture minification and magnification modes  
     to control the specifics of the anisotropic filtering scheme used.  
  
     The anisotropic texture filtering scheme may only access mipmap  
     levels if the minification filter is one that requires mipmaps.  
     Additionally, when a minification filter is specified, the  
     anisotropic texture filtering scheme may only access texture mipmap  
     levels between the texture's values for TEXTURE_BASE_LEVEL and  
     TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL, inclusive.  Implementations are also recommended  
     to respect the values of TEXTURE_MAX_LOD and TEXTURE_MIN_LOD to  
     whatever extent the particular anisotropic texture filtering  
     scheme permits this."  
  
     The following describes one particular approach to implementing  
     anisotropic texture filtering for the 2D texturing case:  
  
     "Anisotropic texture filtering substantially changes Section 3.8.5.  
     Previously a single scale factor P was determined based on the  
     pixel's projection into texture space.  Now two scale factors,  
     Px and Py, are computed.  
  
       Px = sqrt(dudx^2 + dvdx^2)  
       Py = sqrt(dudy^2 + dvdy^2)  
  
       Pmax = max(Px,Py)  
       Pmin = min(Px,Py)  
  
       N = min(ceil(Pmax/Pmin),maxAniso)  
       Lamda' = log2(Pmax/N)  
  
     where maxAniso is the smaller of the texture's value of  
     TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT or the implementation-defined value of  
     MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT.  
  
     It is acceptable for implementation to round 'N' up to the nearest  
     supported sampling rate.  For example an implementation may only  
     support power-of-two sampling rates.  
  
     It is also acceptable for an implementation to approximate the ideal  
     functions Px and Py with functions Fx and Fy subject to the following  
     conditions:  
  
       1.  Fx is continuous and monotonically increasing in |du/dx| and |dv/dx|.  
           Fy is continuous and monotonically increasing in |du/dy| and |dv/dy|.  
  
       2.  max(|du/dx|,|dv/dx|} <= Fx <= |du/dx| + |dv/dx|.  
           max(|du/dy|,|dv/dy|} <= Fy <= |du/dy| + |dv/dy|.  
  
     Instead of a single sample, Tau, at (u,v,Lamda), 'N' locations in the mipmap  
     at LOD Lamda, are sampled within the texture footprint of the pixel.  
  
     Instead of a single sample, Tau, at (u,v,lambda), 'N' locations in  
     the mipmap at LOD Lamda are sampled within the texture footprint of  
     the pixel.  This sum TauAniso is defined using the single sample Tau.  
     When the texture's value of TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPHY_EXT is greater  
     than 1.0, use TauAniso instead of Tau to determine the fragment's  
     texture value.  
  
                    i=N  
                    ---  
     TauAniso = 1/N \ Tau(u(x - 1/2 + i/(N+1), y), v(x - 1/2 + i/(N+1), y)),  Px > Py  
                    /  
                    ---  
                    i=1  
  
                    i=N  
                    ---  
     TauAniso = 1/N \ Tau(u(x, y - 1/2 + i/(N+1)), v(x, y - 1/2 + i/(N+1))),  Py >= Px  
                    /  
                    ---  
                    i=1  
  
  
     It is acceptable to approximate the u and v functions with equally spaced  
     samples in texture space at LOD Lamda:  
  
                    i=N  
                    ---  
     TauAniso = 1/N \ Tau(u(x,y)+dudx(i/(N+1)-1/2), v(x,y)+dvdx(i/(N+1)-1/2)), Px > Py  
                    /  
                    ---  
                    i=1  
  
                    i=N  
                    ---  
     TauAniso = 1/N \ Tau(u(x,y)+dudy(i/(N+1)-1/2), v(x,y)+dvdy(i/(N+1)-1/2)), Py >= Px  
                    /  
                    ---  
                    i=1   
  
     "  
  
homeprevnext Additions to Chapter 4 of the 1.2 Specification (Per-Fragment Operations and the Frame Buffer)
  
     None  
  
homeprevnext Additions to Chapter 5 of the 1.2 Specification (Special Functions)
  
     None  
  
homeprevnext Additions to Chapter 6 of the 1.2 Specification (State and State Requests)
  
     None  
  
homeprevnext Additions to the GLX Specification
  
     None  
  
homeprevnext Errors
  
     INVALID_VALUE is generated when TexParameter is called with <pname>  
     of TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT and a <param> value or value of what  
     <params> points to less than 1.0.  
  
homeprevnext New State
  
(table 6.13, p203) add the entry:  
  
Get Value                   Type  Get Command        Initial Value   Description      Sec     Attribute  
--------------------------  ----  -----------------  --------------  ---------------  -----   ---------  
TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT   R    GetTexParameterfv  1.0             Maximum degree   3.8.5    texture  
                                                                     of anisotropy  
  
New Implementation State  
  
(table 6.25, p215) add the entry:  
  
Get Value                       Type  Get Command   Minimum Value   Description      Sec     Attribute  
------------------------------  ----  ------------  --------------  ---------------  -----   ---------  
MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT   R    GetFloatv     2.0             Limit of         3.8.5    -  
                                                                    maximum degree  
                                                                    of anisotropy  
  
homeprevnext Revision History
  
  4/25/00 - clarify that TexParameterf and TexParameteri accept  
  TEXTURE_MAX_ANISTROPY_EXT as a pname.  
  
  
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