Pre-pass surface analysis to achieve adaptive anti-aliasing modes

An apparatus comprising:

• a substrate;
• and
• logic coupled to the substrate, wherein the logic is implemented in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality hardware logic, the logic to:
• determine a position associated with one or more polygons in unresolved surface data,
• select an anti-aliasing sample rate based on a state of the one or more polygons with respect to the position, and
• uniformly resolve the unresolved surface data at the position in accordance with the selected anti-aliasing sample rate, wherein the selected anti-aliasing sample rate is to vary across a plurality of pixels.

A method comprising:

• determining, via logic implemented in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality hardware logic, a position associated with one or more polygons in unresolved surface data, wherein the unresolved surface data corresponds to visual content to be output to a display;
• selecting, via the logic, an anti-aliasing sample rate based on a state of the one or more polygons with respect to the position;
• and
• uniformly resolving, via the logic, the unresolved surface data at the position in accordance with the selected anti-aliasing sample rate, wherein the selected anti-aliasing sample rate varies across a plurality of pixels.

At least one computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions, which when executed, cause a computing system to:

• determine a position associated with one or more polygons in unresolved surface data, wherein the unresolved surface data corresponds to visual content to be output to a display;
• select an anti-aliasing sample rate based on a state of the one or more polygons with respect to the position;
• and
• uniformly resolve the unresolved surface data at the position in accordance with the selected anti-aliasing sample rate, wherein the selected anti-aliasing sample rate is to vary across a plurality of pixels.