[cairo] another pixman issue

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 24 Mar 2008 15:04:13 +0100, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann at daimi.au.dk> wrote:

> A pixman image is an array of pixels, where the top left pixel has
> coordinates (0.5, 0.5). But the scaling actually has (0, 0) as the
> center and not (0.5, 0.5).
>
> In your test case, the top left destination pixel with coordinates
> (0.5, 0.5) gets transformed into (0.25, 0.25). The bilinear filter
> then finds the four closest pixels to those coordinates:
>
>   (-0.5, -0.5), (0.5, -0.5), (-0.5, 0.5) and (0.5, 0.5).
>
> Three of these are outside the source image, so they are treated as
> transparent. The last one is opaque white, so the result of the
> resampling is a translucent gray.
>

Right, thanks.

My intuition was that we should sample only the pixels that intersect the
scaled-down target pixel, i.e. the rectangle (0,0)-(0.5,0.5). I guess
there's probably a reason we don't do it that way, so OK.

Rob
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