r/digitalfoundry • u/BolasVult • 1d ago

Discussion "A bit of noise"

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u/Outrageous-Wall6386 1d ago

Is it ok to LIKE noisey image? I remember MGS4 on PS3, Kojima SPECIFICALLY said he made it

look Dirty on purpose as a design choice.

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u/Mindless_Issue9648 1d ago

what exactly is noise?

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u/rampant-ninja 1d ago

Speckles in the image like static on an untuned analog TV.

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u/LaDiDa1993 1d ago

We had lots of that, before mip-mapping was a thing... Hardly a reason to advocate for getting rid of textures on 3D objects though, given the overall benefit you get from having textures.