bug#47043: 27.1; transparent PNG image scaled larger may be blurred

bug#47043: 27.1; transparent PNG image scaled larger may be blurred

[ynyaaa]

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When a transparent PNG image is scaled larger, it may be displayed as a
blurred image.

The attached image transparent3.png is a green square with red dots.
Its alpha values change one by one from left to right with step 1.
transparent4.png is a similar image whose alpha values are floored into
multiples of four.

When transparent3.png is scaled much larger, the displayed image is
blurred.
  (insert-image (create-image "transparent3.png" 'png nil :scale 5))
  =>t ;; blurred dots are displayed
transparent4.png is displayed with square dots.
  (insert-image (create-image "transparent4.png" 'png nil :scale 5))
  =>t ;; square dots are displayed


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In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2020-08-22 built on CIRROCUMULUS
Repository revision: 86d8d76aa36037184db0b2897c434cdaab1a9ae8
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bug#47043: 27.1; transparent PNG image scaled larger may be blurred

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

ynyaaa@gmail.com writes:

> When a transparent PNG image is scaled larger, it may be displayed as a
> blurred image.
>
> The attached image transparent3.png is a green square with red dots.
> Its alpha values change one by one from left to right with step 1.
> transparent4.png is a similar image whose alpha values are floored into
> multiples of four.

In Emacs 27.1, scaling images upwards always blur them.  This has been
changed in Emacs 28.

There's further work being done in this area, though -- blurring may be
reintroduced in some use cases, but this specific problem has been
fixed, so I'm closing this bug report.

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