farbfeld image resizing filter
This filter uses catmull-rom interpolation to resize images.
As befits the minimalist approach of the farbfeld image format, this image resizer focuses on clean and concise code while staying as accurate as possible.
It has no dependencies.
Resize an image to fit into a 1300x800 box while maintaining the aspect ratio:
png2ff < in.png | ./resize 1300 800 | ff2png > out.png
This resizer uses a single interpolation function, xscale(). Which only knows
how to perform horizontal scaling.
The trick to vertical scaling is that we make two passes on the image, transposing pixels during each pass.
For example, when we resize a 500x600 image to 250x300, the first resize-transpose pass will return a 600x250 image.
The second resize-transpose pass returns a 250x300 image and results in horizontal scaling.
Are you sure that there isn't a height limit? If you think about it, you might realize that there is in fact a limit to how tall you want your output image to be.
Imagine a very narrow & tall image comes along, are you sure you want it to grow to 100,000 pixels?
I am curious about such use cases. Please reach out to me if you have feedback on this.
There is a 1/2 pixel image shift due to mapping pixel edges instead of pixel centers.
This is handled in liboil but as an experiment on whether this is really needed I left it out.
I've yet to see a real-world case where this matters. If you have one, I would like to hear from you.
I have yet to see a real-world case where this is visible. If you have one, I would like to hear from you.
The alpha channel is treated just like other channels, meaning the resulting image can end up with transparency artifacts.