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Originally Posted by PCXL-Fan
Awesome saucem! TCoS breaks out the techno-nerd!
What form of 2D image enlargment would be give the best IQ yet be reasonable enough that it would be possible on computers now or say within the next few years to upscale 2d backgrounds on the psx?
Fractal image enlargment? Since your usually not dealing with very large images. Could it be during the disk loading (say in FFVII when the next scene or area is loading)?
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Techno-nerd? Lol.
Fractal method is nice for upscaling natural images like photos of scenery, the outdoors, etc. but it's not good for images that are meant to be crisp looking or is supposed to have sharp details since the fractal method produces natural crystal-looking artifacts from what I've seen. It would be good for the pre-backgrounds of scenery like in RE though.
As for the using that method for upscaling images in a game, I would think that in the next few years it would be good. Last time I upscaled a regular image using the fractal method, it wasn't instant, even with a decent sized image but that was a long time ago on my older laptop. I wouldn't try to do that 60 times per second at this point and time though. But it think it would be feasable in a few years.