1. In a processing device associated with a display device that has a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of separately controllable pixel sub-components, a method of applying selected anti-aliasing filters when rendering an image, comprising the acts of: based on one or more attributes of an object in the image to be displayed, selecting an anti-aliasing filter from a plurality of anti-aliasing filters, wherein the plurality of anti-aliasing filters includes at least a first anti-aliasing filter and a second anti-aliasing filter, and wherein the anti-aliasing filters are selected in such a manner that an amount of anti-aliasing performed by the plurality of anti-aliasing filters increases as a value of the one or more attributes of the object correspondingly increases; and displaying the object on the display device, wherein spatially different sets of samples obtained by applying the anti-aliasing filter selected are mapped to individual pixel sub-components.