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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?
From:       Simon Perreault <perrea02 () gel ! ulaval ! ca>
Date:       2003-11-06 21:16:15
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Kuba Ober wrote:
>>Well, browsers could include some "intelligent bitmap stretching" algo,
>>which takes resolution into account. It would not be too difficult.
> 
> Essentially all it needs is a fast processor and some hefty memory. You 
> upsample the image, apply a 2D FIR or IIR filter so that aliasing is removed, 
> and you downsample it afterwards. Or a similar algorithm. The trick is that 
> your filter should offer a sharp, almost brickboard cutoff. If you do it that 
> way, the bitmap scaling is seamless, i.e. your bitmap could be scaled by a 
> factor pi:1 and look as good as scaled by a factor 2:1.

Do we need all that work for a computer desktop?

> An equivalent of a 
> 5GHz PIV CPU and probably at least 512Mb of RAM available w/o swapping is 
> what it takes on a typical 1280x1024 desktop

What it takes for what? 30 frames per second?

This to me sounds over the top.

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Simon Perreault <perrea02@gel.ulaval.ca>
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