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Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) Sub-Pixel Jittering and Velocity Buffer History Blending [StackOverflow Architecture Guide]

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2 weeks ago ยท Aug 5, 2026 7:00 PM
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How TAA achieves cinema-smooth anti-aliasing without the heavy performance cost of 8x MSAA:

  1. In each frame, offset the projection matrix by a sub-pixel Halton sequence jitter ($dx, dy \in [-0.5, 0.5]$ pixels).
  2. Output a screen-space Velocity Buffer (Motion Vectors) recording per-pixel movement deltas from previous frame.
  3. In post-processing shader, reproject current pixel coordinates using motion vector to sample the previous frame's history buffer.
  4. Blend current frame with historical buffer: final = lerp(current, history, 0.95).

Completely removes geometric jaggies and temporal specular shimmer!

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2 weeks ago ยท Aug 5, 2026 9:13 PM
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TAA is also the required foundation for modern upscalers like DLSS and FSR 2.

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2 weeks ago ยท Aug 6, 2026 10:07 AM
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History clamping (AABB color clipping) is essential to prevent ghosting behind fast-moving objects.