PRONRONPO 01 2005 An exploration of the process of blending between non-adjacent pixels.
Blending the color values between adjacent pixels in an image produces standard upscaling interpolation, which results in a size-enhanced, somewhat blurry image with aliasing artifacts that is common to most upscaling procedures to be found in commercial programs that are designed for this like Photoshop.
But what if we were allowed to blend the color values between non-adjacent pixels? I don’t think that such a technique is available in any program or filter currently around, (I had to write my own implementation from scratch in Matlab), and the effect, I’m happy to report, produces striking results. In the instance below the original image is 12x18 pixels, which is upscaled 200 times with non-adjacent pixel interpolation. The distance-measure is set at 1 pixel apart, although any number can be used to produce an image of more or less abstractness.
Here, then, is one illustration of this idea, in full and in partial detail. The picture contains explicit subject matter, so beware!
IN FULL (12” x 18”): http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/ERE022005.jpg DETAIL: http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/ERE02d2005.jpg mwp
