Re: [css3-images] image-rendering property for contrast-preserving image upscaling

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Gregg Tavares (wrk) <gman@google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Gimme a name for the new value and I'll add it to Image Values.
>>>
>>
>> I think sometimes authors explicitly want nearest-neighbour (e.g. to
>> expose the pixel data of an image, perhaps in an editor), so we might want
>> to provide 'nearest-neighbor' explicitly.
>>
>> For what James described as "optimize-contrast", maybe "optimize-contrast"
>> is the best name. Or maybe "preserve-contrast".
>
>
> I agree. I don't understand "optimize-contrast"
>
> Does that mean If I have 5 pixels black,red,blue,green,white and I scale to
> 10 pixels I'll get
>
> black,black,red,redish-purple,bluish-purple,blue,blueish-green,green,white,white
> since by some definitions there is no contrast between red,green,blue so
> those would be blended
>
> Why not just say "nearest-neighbor" if that's the effect people are asking
> for?
>

For some use-cases, e.g. emulators, we want to allow scaling algorithms more
elaborate than nearest-neighbor, like the ones Tab linked to earlier.

But one option is to tell those authors to implement their own scaling
algorithms in WebGL.

Rob
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