Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more.

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Well, my Canadian dictionary states the first definition as:

"destroy much of, kill a large part of"

The second and third definitions both refer to one-tenth (destroy 
one-tenth, or execute one of every ten men).

Pretty violent term for describing removal of some pixels, if you ask 
me...  I too use downsample and upsample, and I think they both are 
easier to understand.

Art

Steve Greenbank wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:56 PM
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>One of the new features of the upcoming release of Polacolor
>>Insight is the
>>ability to use one of several
>>
> 
>>decimation
>>
> 
>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
> 
>>techniques from nearest
>>neighbor(lowest quality) to bicubic(highest quality also longer). Your
>>choice would depend on use.
>>David
>>
> 
>>David,
>>
>>I'm very impressed!  Someone actually used the correct term for this!  Will
>>the documentation actually use this term?
>>
>>;-)
>>
> 
> Strictly speaking decimation means remove 1 in 10 hence the "dec" so it's
> definitely NOT the correct term even if some illiterate yank coined the
> phrase.
> ;-)
> 
> Personally I use down-sample (and up-sample for the reverse).
>