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Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
By:Tommy
Date: 9/24/2008, 4:43 pm

The original image may remain unchanged, but consider what happens when the Delftship (or any other image-manipulation program) needs to display an image in a larger size.
Unlike say, images painted on rubber, images made of pixels do not have any inherent "stretch" ability.
In order to show pixel-based image in a larger size, a new image must be made with greater number of pixels in it. Depending on the program, the new image may be only temporary (exist only in program memory) which may be the case with Delftship.
Pixel is only a small rectangular point on the screen that is fixed in size, so the larger the image, the more pixels it needs.
Let's say that you have a black curving line on a white background. If you enlarged the image you'd see the line's edges
are not smooth but resemble "steps". If a human was in charge of enlarging the black line, he would simply add more black
pixels only.
However, software does not know what the pixels represent.
Thus, it must make some educated guess what pixels of what color to add. Depending on the algorithm it may do better or worse job in that guessing.
Now, black line on white background is a very simple pattern. In color photographs the pixel structure of the objects represented may be very complex, thus making the software interpolation a very challenging task.

: But Freeship does not change the real size of image. When image resized it's
: just viewed in different size, picture still hase the same amount of
: pixels.

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Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Images
Ken Blanton -- 9/23/2008, 10:38 am
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Tommy -- 9/23/2008, 8:45 pm
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Ken Blanton -- 9/24/2008, 7:29 am
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Toni V -- 9/24/2008, 2:09 am
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Tommy------WebKitFormBoundaryAA+NAAHEAAaeAAQC -- 9/24/2008, 7:22 am
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Toni V -- 9/24/2008, 12:54 pm
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Tommy -- 9/24/2008, 4:43 pm
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Toni V -- 9/25/2008, 5:15 am
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Ken Blanton -- 9/25/2008, 7:34 am
Re: Other: Accuracy: Delftship And Background Imag
Bryan Hansel -- 9/23/2008, 8:06 pm