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This is something I've been wondering about for a while - are there any algorithms out there to scale pixel art down? I'm sure we all know about the upscale versions on the Wikipedia page on Image Scaling. I would have thought something like nearest neighbour resampling to get the colour pattern right, and then redrawing the outline, or high-contrast areas, over the top. Is there anything out there or am I going to have to learn how to do this myself? Thanks! |
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This process is known as "downscaling". There are many algorithms for this. Which is appropriate will depend on many factors, such as performance requirements and the nature of the images you are scaling. See e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/875856/interpolation-algorithms-when-downscaling for further information. |
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While you can use Supersampling to downsize, you'll quickly notice that you receive "averaged grey stuff". Human perception is based on edge contrasts and patterns and exactly those are lost with naiive "averaging". Perfect downsampling would need "semantic" knowledge of the object properties. In other words: which properties are important to "attenuate" in down-sampled image to preserve perception of the object. Artists do this intuitively! Amongst lower-tech methods you could try: Lanczos filter or B-splines. These filters preserve some of the sharpness. But there are tons of other filters that may work depending on type and relative sizes of the features in your images. |
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