<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Pixel art is aesthetics that emulates the graphical style of old computer systems. Graphics created with this style needs to be scaled up for presentation on modern displays. The authors proposed two new modifications of image scaling for this purpose: a proximity-based coefficient correction and a transition area restriction. Moreover a new interpolation kernel has been introduced. The presented approaches are aimed at reliable and flexible bitmap scaling while overcoming limitations of existing methods. The new techniques were introduced in an extensible. NET application that serves as both an executable program and a library. The project is designed for prototyping and testing interpolation operations and can be easily expanded with new functionality by adding it to the code or by using the provided interface.</p></abstract>

Pixel art is aesthetics that emulates the graphical style of old computer systems. Graphics created with this style needs to be scaled up for presentation on modern displays. The authors proposed two new modifications of image scaling for this purpose: a proximity-based coefficient correction and a transition area restriction. Moreover a new interpolation kernel has been introduced. The presented approaches are aimed at reliable and flexible bitmap scaling while overcoming limitations of existing methods. The new techniques were introduced in an extensible. NET application that serves as both an executable program and a library. The project is designed for prototyping and testing interpolation operations and can be easily expanded with new functionality by adding it to the code or by using the provided interface.

Extensible Implementation of Reliable Pixel Art Interpolation

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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Pixel art is aesthetics that emulates the graphical style of old computer systems. Graphics created with this style needs to be scaled up for presentation on...

Extensible Implementation of Reliable Pixel Art Interpolation

Published Online: Jun 06, 2019

Page range: 213 - 239

Received: Jun 19, 2018

Accepted: Dec 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2019-0011

Keywords
image processing, pixel art, image upscaling, bitmap interpolation, proximity measure, proximity-based coefficient correction (PBCC), p-lin interpolation, transition area restriction (TAR)

© 2019 Paweł M. Stasik et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Extensible Implementation of Reliable Pixel Art Interpolation

Published Online: Jun 06, 2019

Page range: 213 - 239

Received: Jun 19, 2018

Accepted: Dec 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fcds-2019-0011

Keywordsimage processing, pixel art, image upscaling, bitmap interpolation, proximity measure, proximity-based coefficient correction (PBCC), p-lin interpolation, transition area restriction (TAR)

© 2019 Paweł M. Stasik et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
image processing, pixel art, image upscaling, bitmap interpolation, proximity measure, proximity-based coefficient correction (PBCC), p-lin interpolation, transition area restriction (TAR)