diff --git a/nbodykit/source/mesh/aamesh.py b/nbodykit/source/mesh/aamesh.py
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+from nbodykit.base.mesh import MeshSource
+from nbodykit.base.catalog import CatalogSource, CatalogSourceBase
+from nbodykit import _global_options
+import numpy
+import logging
+import warnings
+
+# for converting from particle to mesh
+from pmesh import window
+from pmesh.pm import RealField, ComplexField
+
+class SSAAMesh(MeshSource):
+    """
+    SSAAMesh from a Catalog. SSAA stands for supersampling antialiasing.
+
+    The original CatalogSource object is stored as the :attr:`base` attribute.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    source : CatalogSource
+        the input catalog that we are viewing as a mesh
+    Nmesh : int, 3-vector
+        the number of cells per mesh side
+    BoxSize :
+        the size of the box; None to read from the source.attrs
+    dtype : str
+        the data type of the values stored on mesh, 'f4'
+    samples : array_like
+        points to sample.
+        `SSAAMesh.GRID` : a uniform grid of 2x2x2
+        `SSAA.Mesh.INTERLACE` : interlacing, see Sefusatti et al. 2015;
+        also known as Quincunx.
+    weight : str
+        column in ``source`` that specifies the weight value for each
+        particle in the ``source`` to use when gridding
+    value : str
+        column in ``source`` that specifies the field value for each particle;
+        the mesh stores a weighted average of this column
+    selection : str
+        column in ``source`` that selects the subset of particles to grid
+        to the mesh
+    position : str, optional
+        column in ``source`` specifying the position coordinates; default
+        is ``Position``
+    window : str, optional
+        the string specifying which window interpolation scheme to use;
+        see ``pmesh.window.methods``
+    """
+    logger = logging.getLogger('AntiAliasingMesh')
+
+    GRID = numpy.array([
+            (0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0), (1, 0, 0),
+            (0, 1, 1), (1, 0, 1), (1, 1, 0), (1, 1, 1)]) * 0.5
+
+    # also known as Quincunx or HRAA
+    # according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling
+    INTERLACE = numpy.array([
+            (0, 0, 0), (1, 1, 1)]) * 0.5
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "(%s as AntiAliasingMesh)" % repr(self.base)
+
+    def __init__(self, source, Nmesh, weight='Weight',
+                    value='Value',
+                    selection='Selection',
+                    position='Position', 
+                    dtype='f8',
+                    BoxSize=None,
+                    samples=INTERLACE,
+                    window='cic'):
+
+        comm = source.comm
+        # source here must be a CatalogSource
+        assert isinstance(source, CatalogSourceBase)
+
+        if BoxSize is None:
+            BoxSize = source.attrs['BoxSize']
+
+        # copy meta-data from source too
+        self.attrs.update(source.attrs)
+
+        # copy over the necessary meta-data to attrs
+        self.attrs['BoxSize'] = BoxSize
+        self.attrs['Nmesh'] = Nmesh
+        self.attrs['window'] = window
+
+        # store others as straight attributes
+        self.dtype = dtype
+        self.weight = weight
+        self.value = value
+        self.selection = selection
+        self.position = position
+        self.samples = samples
+
+        # add in the Mesh Source attributes
+        MeshSource.__init__(self, comm, Nmesh, BoxSize, dtype)
+
+        # finally set the base as the input CatalogSource
+        # NOTE: set this AFTER MeshSource.__init__()
+        self.base = source
+
+    @property
+    def window(self):
+        """
+        String specifying the name of the interpolation kernel when
+        gridding the density field.
+
+        See :ref:`the documentation <window-kernel>` for further details.
+
+        .. note::
+            Valid values must be in :attr:`pmesh.window.methods`
+        """
+        return self.attrs['window']
+
+    @window.setter
+    def window(self, value):
+        assert value in window.methods
+        self.attrs['window'] = value.lower() # lower to compare with compensation
+
+    def to_complex_field(self, out=None, normalize=True):
+        """
+        Paint the density field, by interpolating the position column
+        on to the mesh.
+
+        This computes the following meta-data attributes in the process of
+        painting, returned in the :attr:`attrs` attributes of the returned
+        RealField object:
+
+        - N : int
+            the (unweighted) total number of objects painted to the mesh
+        - W : float
+            the weighted number of total objects, equal to the collective
+            sum of the 'weight' column
+        - shotnoise : float
+            the Poisson shot noise, equal to the volume divided by ``N``
+        - num_per_cell : float
+            the mean number of weighted objects per cell
+
+        .. note::
+
+            The density field on the mesh is normalized as :math:`1+\delta`,
+            such that the collective mean of the field is unity.
+
+        See the :ref:`documentation <painting-mesh>` on painting for more
+        details on painting catalogs to a mesh.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        complex: :class:`pmesh.pm.RealField`
+            the painted real field; this has a ``attrs`` dict storing meta-data
+        """
+        # check for 'Position' column
+        if self.position not in self.base:
+            msg = "in order to paint a CatalogSource to a RealField, add a "
+            msg += "column named '%s', representing the particle positions" %self.position
+            raise ValueError(msg)
+
+        pm = self.pm
+        Nlocal = 0 # (unweighted) number of particles read on local rank
+        Wlocal = 0 # (weighted) number of particles read on local rank
+
+        # the paint brush window
+        paintbrush = window.methods[self.window]
+
+        # initialize the ComplexField to return
+        if out is not None:
+            assert isinstance(out, ComplexField), "output of to_complex_field must be a ComplexField"
+            numpy.testing.assert_array_equal(out.pm.Nmesh, pm.Nmesh)
+            toret = out
+        else:
+            toret = ComplexField(pm)
+        toret[:] = 0
+
+        # displaced aa fields
+        reals = [pm.create(mode='real', value=0) for vector in self.samples]
+
+        # read the necessary data (as dask arrays)
+        columns = [self.position, self.weight, self.value, self.selection]
+
+        Position, Weight, Value, Selection = self.base.read(columns)
+
+        # ensure the slices are synced, since decomposition is collective
+        Nlocalmax = max(pm.comm.allgather(len(Position)))
+
+        # paint data in chunks on each rank;
+        # we do this by chunk 8 million is pretty big anyways.
+        chunksize = _global_options['paint_chunk_size']
+        for i in range(0, Nlocalmax, chunksize):
+            s = slice(i, i + chunksize)
+
+            if len(Position) != 0:
+
+                # selection has to be computed many times when data is `large`.
+                sel = self.base.compute(Selection[s])
+
+                # be sure to use the source to compute
+                position, weight, value = \
+                    self.base.compute(Position[s], Weight[s], Value[s])
+
+                # FIXME: investigate if move selection before compute
+                # speeds up IO.
+                position = position[sel]
+                weight = weight[sel]
+                value = value[sel]
+            else:
+                # workaround a potential dask issue on empty dask arrays
+                position = numpy.empty((0, 3), dtype=Position.dtype)
+                weight = None
+                value = None
+                selection = None
+
+            if weight is None:
+                weight = numpy.ones(len(position))
+
+            if value is None:
+                value = numpy.ones(len(position))
+
+            # track total (selected) number and sum of weights
+            Nlocal += len(position)
+            Wlocal += weight.sum()
+
+            lay = pm.decompose(position, smoothing=max([1.0 * paintbrush.support, 1.0]))
+            p = lay.exchange(position)
+            w = lay.exchange(weight)
+            v = lay.exchange(value)
+
+            H = pm.BoxSize / pm.Nmesh
+
+            for real, vector in zip(reals, self.samples):
+                # in mesh units
+                shifted = pm.affine.shift(vector)
+
+                pm.paint(p, mass=w * v, resampler=paintbrush, transform=shifted, hold=True, out=real)
+
+            Nglobal = pm.comm.allreduce(Nlocal)
+
+            if pm.comm.rank == 0:
+                self.logger.info("painted %d out of %d objects to mesh"
+                    % (Nglobal, self.base.csize))
+
+        # now the loop over particles is done
+
+        # add the aa fields:
+        for real, vector in zip(reals, self.samples):
+            # compose the two interlaced fields into the final result.
+
+            def filter(k, v, vector=vector):
+                kH = sum(ki * Hi for ki, Hi in zip(k, vector * pm.BoxSize / pm.Nmesh))
+                return numpy.exp(1j * kH) * v
+
+            c = real.r2c(out=Ellipsis).apply(filter, out=Ellipsis)
+            toret[...] += c
+
+        # it's the average of all aa fields.
+        toret /= len(self.samples)
+
+        toret.apply(self._get_compensation(), out=Ellipsis, kind='circular')
+
+        # unweighted number of objects
+        N = pm.comm.allreduce(Nlocal)
+
+        # weighted number of objects
+        W = pm.comm.allreduce(Wlocal)
+
+        # weighted number density (objs/cell)
+        nbar = 1. * W / numpy.prod(pm.Nmesh)
+
+        # make sure we painted something or nbar is nan; in which case
+        # we set the density to uniform everywhere.
+        if N == 0:
+            warnings.warn(("trying to paint particle source to mesh, "
+                           "but no particles were found!"),
+                            RuntimeWarning
+                        )
+
+        # shot noise is volume / un-weighted number
+        shotnoise = numpy.prod(pm.BoxSize) / N
+
+        # save some meta-data
+        toret.attrs = {}
+        toret.attrs['shotnoise'] = shotnoise
+        toret.attrs['N'] = N
+        toret.attrs['W'] = W
+        toret.attrs['num_per_cell'] = nbar
+
+        if pm.comm.rank == 0:
+            self.logger.info("painted %d out of %d objects to mesh" %(N,self.base.csize))
+            self.logger.info("mean particles per cell is %g", nbar)
+            self.logger.info("normalized the convention to 1 + delta")
+
+        if normalize:
+            if nbar > 0:
+                toret[...] /= nbar
+            else:
+                toret[...] = 1
+
+        return toret
+
+    def _get_compensation(self):
+        """
+        Return the compensation function, which corrects for the
+        windowing kernel.
+
+        The compensation function is computed as:
+
+        - if ``interlaced = True``:
+          - :func:`CompensateCIC` if using CIC window
+          - :func:`CompensateTSC` if using TSC window
+          - :func:`CompensatePCS` if using PCS window
+        """
+        d = {'cic' : self.CompensateCIC,
+             'tsc' : self.CompensateTSC,
+             'pcs' : self.CompensatePCS,
+            }
+
+        if not self.window in d:
+            raise ValueError("compensation for window %s is not defined" % self.window)
+
+        return d[self.window]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def CompensateTSC(w, v):
+        """
+        Return the Fourier-space kernel that accounts for the convolution of
+        the gridded field with the TSC window function in configuration space.
+
+        .. note::
+            see equation 18 (with p=3) of
+            `Jing et al 2005 <https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409240>`_
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        w : list of arrays
+            the list of "circular" coordinate arrays, ranging from
+            :math:`[-\pi, \pi)`.
+        v : array_like
+            the field array
+        """
+        for i in range(3):
+            wi = w[i]
+            tmp = (numpy.sinc(0.5 * wi / numpy.pi) ) ** 3
+            v = v / tmp
+        return v
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def CompensatePCS(w, v):
+        """
+        Return the Fourier-space kernel that accounts for the convolution of
+        the gridded field with the PCS window function in configuration space.
+
+        .. note::
+            see equation 18 (with p=4) of
+            `Jing et al 2005 <https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409240>`_
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        w : list of arrays
+            the list of "circular" coordinate arrays, ranging from
+            :math:`[-\pi, \pi)`.
+        v : array_like
+            the field array
+        """
+        for i in range(3):
+            wi = w[i]
+            tmp = (numpy.sinc(0.5 * wi / numpy.pi) ) ** 4
+            v = v / tmp
+        return v
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def CompensateCIC(w, v):
+        """
+        Return the Fourier-space kernel that accounts for the convolution of
+        the gridded field with the CIC window function in configuration space
+
+        .. note::
+            see equation 18 (with p=2) of
+            `Jing et al 2005 <https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409240>`_
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        w : list of arrays
+            the list of "circular" coordinate arrays, ranging from
+            :math:`[-\pi, \pi)`.
+        v : array_like
+            the field array
+        """
+        for i in range(3):
+            wi = w[i]
+            tmp = (numpy.sinc(0.5 * wi / numpy.pi) ) ** 2
+            tmp[wi == 0.] = 1.
+            v = v / tmp
+        return v
diff --git a/nbodykit/source/mesh/tests/test_aa.py b/nbodykit/source/mesh/tests/test_aa.py
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+from runtests.mpi import MPITest
+from nbodykit.lab import *
+from nbodykit import setup_logging
+from numpy.testing import assert_allclose, assert_array_equal
+
+setup_logging()
+
+@MPITest([1,4])
+def test_aamesh(comm):
+    from nbodykit.source.mesh.aamesh import SSAAMesh
+
+    cat = UniformCatalog(nbar=1e-2, BoxSize=(128, 128, 128), comm=comm)
+
+    mesh = SSAAMesh(cat, Nmesh=(8, 8, 8))
+    r = mesh.paint(mode='real')
+    c = mesh.paint(mode='complex')
+
+    assert_allclose(r.cmean(), 1.0)