Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM, jungle agi...@cox.net wrote: Has anyone ever done any work implementing advanced interpolation schemes (NEDI or ICBI)? They provide much better results than the spatially invariant schemes present in GIMP. AFAIK no. I would probably be able to code up

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:47 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM, jungle agi...@cox.net wrote: Has anyone ever done any work implementing advanced interpolation schemes (NEDI or ICBI)? They provide much better results than the spatially invariant schemes

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread jcupitt
2009/1/24 David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com: a) You should investigate implementing this interpolation method for GEGL rather than GIMP, as in the fairly near future these kinds of transformations in GIMP will be implemented through use of GEGL. My understanding is that this will not be possible

[Gimp-developer] misleading / missing install instructions on website

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Grosberg
Whenever a new bugfix release is released, the Gimp homepage has a news item. In it are install instructions saying: Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section. Now, I'm using Ubuntu so if I scroll down to the Ubuntu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Bill: There are already two fast nonlinear resamplers implemented in GEGL: YAFR (gegl-sampler-yafr.c) and Nohalo-sharp (gegl-sampler-sharp.c). Both are a little slower than gegl-sampler-linear, but faster than gegl-sampler-bicubic. See the (informal) benchmarks at

Re: [Gimp-developer] misleading / missing install instructions on website

2009-01-24 Thread Christopher Curtis
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Michael Grosberg grosberg.mich...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to install 2.6.4 (or any other bugfix version or developer snapshot) on Ubuntu? Are there alternate software sources that should be specified? If so, what are they and can they be added to the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread jungle
Nicolas Robidoux wrote: There are already two fast nonlinear resamplers implemented in GEGL: YAFR (gegl-sampler-yafr.c) and Nohalo-sharp (gegl-sampler-sharp.c). I'm not familiar with those two resamplers. Of course, that's not saying much, because it's not my area of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Hello Bill: At some point it may a good idea to move this discussion off the list, but at this point I'll hope that those without interest in these issues are just skipping this email. -- jungle writes: Nicolas Robidoux

Re: [Gimp-developer] Advanced Interpolation

2009-01-24 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Bill: I forgot the sample xml code to test nohalo-sharp level 1: !-- sharp enlargement -- gegl gegl:scale x='16.4' y='16.4' filter='sharp'/ gegl:load path='data/PICTURE.png'/ /gegl How to use: Step 1: Put this in a file (called, say, scale16p4PICTURE.xml) in the directory