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Before we start talking about our algorithm, let's talk about some of the previous work done in this area. There has been a lot of work on texture minification, but there has not been as much work done to address the artifacts during texture magnification. Here I will talk about three important ones. First let's look at SGI's sharpen texture extension. This extension attempts to generate a higher resolution texture by extrapolating from levels L0 and L1 in the mipmap. It's a simple idea, but because there is no inherent information on the content of the texture, this technique is simply "guessing" at what the result should be. Another way to look at this is that there could be features so fine that they would be lost even in the L0 level. After all, we want to have an L0 level that is of sufficiently low resolution so that we can pack a lot of textures into our memory. Thus no amount of extrapolation between L0 and L1 will ever get those features back. For these reasons, this extension does not generally yield good results.

As presented at SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Graphics Hardware 2004
by Pradeep Sen on August 30, 2004