CAM photosynthesis is a clever adaptation some plants have where they turn light into sugar during the day, and only breathe in CO2 at night. This lets the plant close up its leaves so they don't lose water during the heat of the day.
CAM plants use sunlight to turn malic acid into sugar, and every night they breathe in plenty of carbon dioxide, storing it as a fresh supply of malic acid. If you have keen senses, you may be able to taste the difference between a CAM plant harvested during the day and one harvested at night because of this variation in sugar and acid content.
Having evolved several times independantly, you see CAM in lots of different kinds of plants: air plants and bromeliads, which have poorly developed root systems; cacti and other succulents, which grow in hot dry environments; you even see it in some aquatic plants. For these, CAM serves not to conserve water, but carbon dioxide - which is of course hard to come by when you don't have any air.
The "crassulacean" part of the name "crassulacean acid metabolism" is there because this phenomenon was first discovered in crassulas. Jade plants are an example of this genus.
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Anti aliasing makes games look so much better, emulating DK country returns right now and played through a few worlds without AA and now turning it on, it looks sooo much better. Better then a resolution bump.
Game holds up really well imo
A lot of games were designed for CRT monitors which naturally caused anti-aliasing effects due to physics.
It's kinda a pain when deciding how to emulate some older systems lol, usually play without shaders tbh. But this is a wii game and I think lcd/plasma had mostly taken over?
Hmmm
I don't know
I did a replay of Morrowind a couple of years back, no new textures just stuff that let you use more anti-aliasing and other graphical features.
I was so surprise how good it looked, like a Nintendo switch game or an indie Steam game.
I actually dig no anti aliasing, but its an aesthetic thing now. I like the stepped jaggy ripped edges. I like the low poly look, but I dont know if it has a name like xbox/xbox 360 era? Theres pixel art, theres low poly, but no 360 era aesthetic yet.
I think some games it makes more sense, with those like ps2 era graphics. I haven't played too much of those to decide what I like. But DK returns is a 2d HD type of game, not the low poly 3d
Sunday is Trans Gaming Day! Thank you for getting me to learn what AA is after years of just
every time I saw it in an options menu