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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?
From:       Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date:       2003-11-08 11:20:22
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On Saturday 08 November 2003 05:19, Datschge wrote:
> If you want to scale while not losing any information (which you do by
> adding blur) you better don't mix colors at all. There are already quite
> some approaches at good looking blurfree and thus sharp scaling algorithms,
> see http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html
> Anything less is ugly imo.

This depends on the image. If you scale a photo,  blurring will probably look 
more natural. For structured, painted graphics scale2x and friends are 
better.

In a browser you would probably use scale2x for GIFs and PNGs, and a blurring 
algorithm for JPEGs.

bye...

 
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