Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality

2007-08-10 Thread gg
Hi, just sending this link again since I dont think my last post got to the m.l. It's the article Graeme refers to which covers all this rather well. http://www.worldserver.com/turk/computergraphics/ResamplingFilters.pdf /gg ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:54 +0200, Geert Jordaens wrote: I get the feeling that we are mixing 2 things here. 1. scaling for display purposes (uniform X and Y scaling) 2. scaling as a effective drawing transformation. (X and Y scale can be different) For the second case, it only needs

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-10 Thread gg
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:34:03 +0200, Graeme Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Øyvind Kolås wrote: More theoretically correct resampling methods like a Sinc filter with an infinite neighbourhood definitly is not something one would want in the view code. I'm not sure what you mean by view code

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-10 Thread Geert Jordaens
Øyvind Kolås wrote: On 8/9/07, Graeme Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Øyvind Kolås wrote: This code implements a perfect box filter for this case, what needs to be added on top of this to be able to do good estimate (maybe even exact) box filter resamplings is trilinear interpolation