A method includes computing an anisotropic filter with a major-axis and a minor-axis for a pixel to be displayed on screen-space, wherein the anisotropic filter is to be applied to corresponding MIPs on a texture map. Additionally, the method includes varying the length of the major-axis of the anisotropic filter based on the angle of the major-axis of anisotropy with respect to the screen space. Further, the method includes determining a number of texels from the texture map that are to be sampled in the anisotropic filter based on the length of the modified major-axis. The color of the pixel may be determined based on the texels sampled in the anisotropic filter.