Broken Viking
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Hail everyone! 
Over the past few days, I've been hard at work on a rather interesting program of mine that expands small images to much larger proportions - Using a pixel reclamation technique of my own creation to do it with a much lower loss of quality than the typical "stretching" of an image.
In plain English: Most of us have probabally found the perfect image for whatever we need on Google ImageSearch, but have found the same image to be too small for what we want. This program allows that image to be "expanded" to a decent size without the quality being too badly affected.
Indeed...The reason that I created this program in the first place was because I'd found a good scan-in of the Warhammer 40,000 v2 box artwork on a P2P service - But at 1052x800, it was too small for me to use as a desktop background on my 1280x1024 display.
Anyhow...I ran a few tests of the program last night using a fairly complicated 100x100 image from Google as source data, and the results certainly seem quite good to my eye - Although I admit that the program does seem to "fuzz" the images a little. Anyhow, here's a collage that I put together to show how well it works compared with traditional "stretching" methods:
Anyhow...What I'm mainly interested in are other people's opinions on my work here. Is it as complex and clever a project as I'm led to believe it is (Ye wouldn't believe the difficulty I had coding it! :razz or could I have used my time better on a different project? 8)
Later edit: If anyone's interested in having a play around with this themselves, I've attached a public GNU GPL licenced version of the program to this post. Enjoy!
Farewell for now, and looking forward to hearing any feedback and opinions!
>> Death <<
Over the past few days, I've been hard at work on a rather interesting program of mine that expands small images to much larger proportions - Using a pixel reclamation technique of my own creation to do it with a much lower loss of quality than the typical "stretching" of an image.
In plain English: Most of us have probabally found the perfect image for whatever we need on Google ImageSearch, but have found the same image to be too small for what we want. This program allows that image to be "expanded" to a decent size without the quality being too badly affected.
Indeed...The reason that I created this program in the first place was because I'd found a good scan-in of the Warhammer 40,000 v2 box artwork on a P2P service - But at 1052x800, it was too small for me to use as a desktop background on my 1280x1024 display.
Anyhow...I ran a few tests of the program last night using a fairly complicated 100x100 image from Google as source data, and the results certainly seem quite good to my eye - Although I admit that the program does seem to "fuzz" the images a little. Anyhow, here's a collage that I put together to show how well it works compared with traditional "stretching" methods:
Anyhow...What I'm mainly interested in are other people's opinions on my work here. Is it as complex and clever a project as I'm led to believe it is (Ye wouldn't believe the difficulty I had coding it! :razz
or could I have used my time better on a different project? 8)Later edit: If anyone's interested in having a play around with this themselves, I've attached a public GNU GPL licenced version of the program to this post. Enjoy!
Farewell for now, and looking forward to hearing any feedback and opinions!
>> Death <<
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