Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/24

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Subject: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Sun Oct 24 22:37:52 2004
References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041024205453.02480150@mail.infoave.net>

The problem is that when you use a good upsampling routine to make a 4 foot
by 6 foot image, people look at it and say, "wow what a beautiful
photograph" (assuming you began with a small, beautiful photograph), they
don't notice the made up pixels or whatever.   So all the theory about how
you can't get something from nothing goes down the drain.

The technique simply works.  And a good tools for making huge prints is
Qimage, which comes with a whole slew of upsampling routines, including
bicubic, but also significantly better ones.  And all for about 50 bucks
with free upgrades forever.

-dan c.

At 10:08 PM 24-10-04 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Or think up your own pixels and insert. After all, they are not a
>represenatation of the actual image.
>
>Sorry Tina and the rest of the interested group.... I do not understand on
>an aesthetic level the concept of made up pixels, no matter what
>mathematician thinks them up.  If you want more pixels, make the image with
>more pixels.  If your sensor will not handle it, then don't make prints that
>big.  Seems easy to me........
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
> For upsampling,
>you need to use Bicubic smooth.
>
>Tina
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?)
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Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?)