1. A method for rendering a primitive of an image to be displayed, the primitive having an area, the method including the steps of: locating pixels that fall within the area of said primitive; generating, for each pixel located in said area, a set of associated sub-pixels; borrowing a borrowed set of sub-pixels from neighboring pixels; creating an adaptively filtered set of sub-pixels by adaptively filtering said set of associated sub-pixels and said borrowed set of sub-pixels; and computing a final pixel for display by subjecting said adaptively filtered set of sub-pixels to further filtering.