Question about future direction for resamplers: Would it be better if there was only one sampler tuned for upsampling, and one tuned for downsampling? My previous vision for GEGL was that my research group would contribute TWO resamplers tuned for upsampling and TWO resamplers tuned for downsampling. The four new samplers would (eventually) integrate the best of the 16 resamplers programmed by Eric and Adam for GSoC 2009. Within each of the two pairs of resamplers, one was to be "interpolatory" (and more aliased) and the other would minimally blur (and be less aliased). Now: I just figured out how to use the Jacobian matrix information so that the sampler only add noticeable antialiasing blur when the operation is performing significant upsampling or downsampling. What this means for the resamplers tuned for upsampling, for example, is that we could seamlessly integrate Nohalo and Snohalo in such a way that the sampler behaves like Nohalo when translating and rotating (hence is "blur free") but behaves increasingly like Snohalo as the transformation (locally) deviates from being distance preserving (hence is more anti-aliased), resulting in one single sampler which would please everyone and their father. I imagine that a few people would want the added control over the aliasing vs blur trade-off which having pairs of methods would provide (also, methods can be faster if they are not jack of all trades). But I am wondering if for GEGL's target user base an "always pretty good" default is preferable to "choose your poison." Comments? Nicolas Robidoux Universite Laurentienne _______________________________________________ Gegl-developer mailing list Gegl-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer
