There is an article that mentions that one can improve the look of downscaling using BILINEAR by downscaling multiple times (each time by half): http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/04/03/perils-of-image-getscaledinstance.html
The paragraph in question reads: "To combat this issue, you can use a multi-step approach when downscaling by more than two times; this helps prevent the information loss issue and produces a much higher quality result that is visually quite close to that produced by Image.SCALE_AREA_AVERAGING" My question is, why doesn't Java do this automatically under the hood? If I request BILINEAR or BICUBIC downscaling for a factor greater than two, why doesn't Java either do multistep scaling on my behalf or why doesn't the Java2D team add a new hint (to maintain backwards compatibility) which will tell Java2D to apply these filters using the multi-step method? I would much rather have this supported by the JDK than having people reinvent the wheel over and over. Thank you, Gili [Message sent by forum member 'cowwoc' (cowwoc)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=227363 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
