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From: rtr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Richard Russell)
Subject: Re: 800x600 on 640x480
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William O'Connell (oconnell@crl.com) wrote:
: Here is some pseudocode for a nearest neighbor
: scheme which drops the occasional row or column. It's fast
: and looks pretty good at 640 by 480.

That depends on what you mean by 'pretty good'.  I would say that any
'nearest neighbor' scheme is pretty awful, especially if the image contains
any diagonal/sloping lines or edges!

Richard.

