Prefiltering
Essential for downsampling (decimation) to
prevent aliasing
MIP-mapping [Williams’83]:
1. build pyramid (but what decimation filter?):
block averaging
Burt & Adelson (5-tap binomial)
7-tap wavelet-based filter (better)
2.  trilinear interpolation
bilinear within each 2 adjacent levels
linear blend between levels (determined by pixel size)