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Sender:Erik Krause
Date/Time:2008-Nov-01 15:21:09
Subject:Re: Some more tests on Optimal Cubefaces.

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PanoTools NG: Re: Some more tests on Optimal Cubefaces. Erik Krause 2008-Nov-01 15:21:09
Am Saturday, November 01, 2008 um 13:17 schrieb Hans Nyberg:

> CubicConverter uses Bicubic which seems to be called Cubic in wiki.
> Why not use the Bicubic definition if it is the same. I never heard
> anyone call it just cubic. Photoshop today has 3 Bicubic versions. 

I don't know whether it is really the same. However, apparently the 
algorithm was called cubic in the originating paper: 
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1163711 

> From what I understand Pano2VR uses Mitchell as default but Mitchell softens the 
> cubefaces slightly compared to CubiConverter. They need 0,4 100% unsharp mask to get 
> back to the same quality if you do an conversion with editing cubefaces and convert back 
> to equirectangular. This does not make sense after reading your comment as Mitchell 
> should have the same effect as Cubic.
> 
> Lazcos 3 gives normally same quality as CubicConverter but  I found that I had to get up 
> to Blackman/sinc Filter to get the same when doing downsizing.

Interesting. I think Thomas should clarify...

best regards
--
Erik Krause
Offenburger Str. 33
79108 Freiburg


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