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Hydraulix989 on Oct 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The magic kernel

The argument is that, in practice, it performs better for resampling images than the more correct sinc kernel from sampling and reconstruction theory.

Ono-Sendai on Nov 1, 2015 [–]

Well, you can't actually use sinc in practice because it has an infinite support. But something like windowed sinc will work better than gaussian.

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