Decomposing a distribution into Gaussians is the essence of unblurring. A good algorithm for doing that would of course be very useful, but there is an enormous literature on the topic, and the most important fact about it is that it is mathematically ill-posed. In other words, unless you add extra constraints, tiny changes in the source distribution result in very large changes in the output. (In image-processing terms, transforms of that type tend to create large artifacts.) Unless the new method has some way of handling that problem, it probably isn't going to be useful. Bill On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Nathan Summers <rockwalrus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The first thing that comes to mind is that it might be a good method for > resizing images. > > Rockwalrus > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015, 4:10 PM Ben Thurston <benpaulthurston@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Well I guess I should add that it also interpolates the known points of a > > distribution... > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Ben Thurston <benpaulthurston@xxxxxxxxx > > > > wrote: > > > > > Sorry of course you need the link: > > > > > > http://benpaulthurstonblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/ > > supposing-you-have-process-that-reaches.html > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Ben Thurston < > benpaulthurston@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> I developed this type of function that I feel is sort of like the > > >> statistical analogue of the Fourrier series, it breaks a distribution > up > > >> into simple normal distribution components as the Fourrier series > > breaks a > > >> wave into simple sine wave components. I thought maybe there could be > an > > >> application for it in image processing but I don't know enough about > > image > > >> processing to figure out how it would apply... Anyone have any ideas? > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-developer-list mailing list > > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp- > > developer-list > > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
