Today is the first official Digital Archives Day. All day,
archivists and conservators working in digital archives of all
kinds will be sharing their work under the #DigitalArchivesDay
hashtag, and blogging at dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com I
wanted to take a moment today to briefly talk about an
innovation in digital imaging and computing that has become a
frustation to many artists that have been experimenting with the
web since the early years: Anti-aliasing. Put simply, anti-
aliasing is a method of image processing that uses
interpolation, to construct "new data points within the range of
a discrete set of known data points." This is a function of
digital signal processing that has many many important
applications, from helping typefaces look good on screen, to
making images not look odd when scaled down. The use of anti-
aliasing that we are talking about here though, is quite
specific: the display of resized digital images and video in web
browsers. To illustrate how anti-aliasing has affected an era