Yuichi Ito on premultiplied alpha

Originally posted to Shawn Hargreaves Blog on MSDN, Monday, June 7, 2010

Software developers are most productive when working on things that offer rapid iteration, but that is not always possible. Waiting for slow code builds or test cycles limits how much code we can produce, but thanks to the power of multitasking, stalls in our high priority coding tasks tend to increase throughput in lower priority areas such as blog posts!

You can tell my colleague Ito has been experiencing a lot of stalls recently. Not only did he demolish my all time record of 18 posts in one month with a mammoth 21 this May, but he also found time to make a really cool video showing the difference between interpolative and premultiplied alpha blending.

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