Intellisample is the brand name for

Nvidia Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

's anti-aliasing method in GeForce

graphics card A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or mistakenly GPU) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device, such as a computer moni ...

Intellisample 4.0

Version 4.0 is used in the

GeForce 6 The GeForce 6 series (codename NV40) is Nvidia's sixth generation of GeForce graphic processing units. Launched on April 14, 2004, the GeForce 6 family introduced PureVideo post-processing for video, '' SLI'' technology, and ''Shader Model 3.0 ...

and

GeForce 7 series The GeForce 7 series is the seventh generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units. This was the last series available on AGP cards. A slightly modified GeForce 7-based card (more specifically based on the 7800GTX) is present as the ...

, and includes two new methods, transparency supersampling (TSAA) and the faster but lower-quality transparency multisampling (TMAA). These methods are designed to improve anti-aliasing quality of scenes with partially transparent textures (such as chain link fences) and textures at oblique angles to the viewing screen. Intellisample 4.0 support was enabled, unannounced, for GeForce 6 Series cards in NVIDIA's display driver (''Forceware''), version 91.45. This is not mentioned in the drive
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References

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