Cool, great to have the confirmation, John.

I've got a bit of an emergency here with lanczos3, so I'm going to commit what 
I have immediately and get some builds to production, but then I'll take a 
second pass at it and see what can be done about disk.


> On Oct 6, 2015, at 6:02 AM, John Haddon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Larry - that PR seems to do the job for me, and having the scaling 
> done inside the filter rather than having to build in additional special-case 
> scaling outside as I was considering seems much better from an implementation 
> perspective.
> 
> The disk filter does still actually display a similar problem, because it has 
> a default width of 1, which is small enough that even when scaled it can fall 
> through the cracks :
> 
> oiiotool --create 10x10 3 --fill:color=1,1,1 0,0,10,10 --resize:filter=disk 
> 100x100 -o test.png
> 
> Unless you think that's worth bothering with, I think I'm quite happy to say 
> "disk ain't for resizing" and omit it from the options in my particular use 
> case.
> 
> Thanks…
> John
> 
> From: Oiio-dev [[email protected]] on behalf of Larry 
> Gritz [[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 5:54 PM
> To: OpenImageIO developers
> Subject: Re: [Oiio-dev] Upsizing with a non-scalable filter
> 
> Funny you should mention this!  (And sorry for the delay, I think this got 
> lost in the post-SIGGRAPH coma.)
> 
> I came across this again today on my side, and finally decided to make those 
> fixed-width filters able to resize to whatever width is specified (with the 
> default width being the "usual" one). It was just catrom and lanczos3 that 
> were like this.
> 
> Here's the PR for it: https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/1228 
> <https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/1228>
> 
> In a practical sense, this seems to work just fine -- the results seem 
> reasonably pleasing to my eye, and match some other software we tried.
> 
> Want to give it a shot and see if it matches your expectations now?
> 
> -- lg
> 
> 
>> On Aug 26, 2015, at 8:00 AM, John Haddon <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> First off, a confession. I'm not too familiar with image processing stuff, 
>> so when I needed some resizing code for a tool I was writing, I based mine 
>> heavily on ImageBufAlgo's resize(). Thanks for the excellent resource.
>> 
>> In this tool, the user specifies both the image size and also the filter, 
>> which led to the eventual realisation that OIIO's resize (and therefore my 
>> homage) doesn't upsize with non-scalable filters, as demonstrated in this 
>> invocation of oiitool :
>> 
>> oiiotool --create 10x10 3 --fill:color=1,1,1 0,0,10,10 
>> --resize:filter=catrom 100x100 -o test.png
>> 
>> It seems that when upsizing, the filter falls through the cracks between 
>> source pixels, because the constructor for catmull-rom and lanczos filters 
>> ignores the width, and the filter radius is therefore much smaller than the 
>> sampling code expects. This means that much of the resized image is black 
>> rather than the expected white.
>> 
>> In my ignorance, I'm wondering what is the right thing to do here, from an 
>> image processing perspective? Presumably I could just adjust for the fact 
>> that the filter is created smaller than expected, and scale the lookup 
>> locations on the way in, but is that meaningless? Are these filter types 
>> simply not intended for upscaling? Would it be better to silently substitute 
>> in a different filter, or perhaps to raise an error?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions you could provide...
>> Cheers...
>> John
>> 
>> 
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