I had a patch where I was rendering from some jit.gl.sketch objects to matrices and then running them through some feedback matrices ripped straight out of Tutorial 18. I got some really nice interaction when I set the downsampling (by this I mean low-pixel count dimensions of specific matrices) high and mixed the output of several of these chains together.

I’ve now rebuilt my patch so that all processing is done on jit.gl.slab objects, but I can’t seem to achieve the same effect. When I tell a slab to downsample (which I’m doing the same way, sending it a dim $1 $2 message), it works, but the effect is completely different. Instead of getting nice crisp squares each of a single color, I get blurry gradient blobs. I can see that technically it is downsampling like I want it to (at higher pixel values the two techniques look more similar, and at lower values the blobs are clearly getting fewer and larger), but I want nice crisp squares again (or, ideally, the means to switch between the two effects on the fly).

I’ve tried sending @blending_enable 0 messages to everything under the sun because it seems like something like that is happening – at some point the output of this nice pixelated slab is being interpolated once upsampled to full resolution again, but I can’t find the point where that’s happening or turn it off.

Any help please? Is there an attribute for this, or has someone written a shader that would simulate this effect?