From: Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: 02/27/02-09:14:25 AM Z
> Perhaps someone will kindly explain, for instance, what it
> does that Photoshop or Sprintscan alone don't do, and how important it
> would be to pursuit of inkjet negs.
> Judy
I did write another post here . . and perhaps cannot explain fully what
Genuine Fractals does . but, it's related to (of course) fractal geometry
and algorithms used frequently in computer imagery.
Fractal geometry was developed to create topography of largely indefinable
mathematical shapes such as mountain crests or fern leaves. The well known
Mandelbrot sets emanate from this fractal formulae.
When this math is applied to a bit-map image it can interpolate in a more
intelligent fashion than bi-cubic via Photoshop. However, by using a
different math formula it really looks closely at the structure of an image
and in a very complicated manner hammers away at it "seeing" what the colors
and densities are. Hence, the program works interminably slow but if you can
walk away for a cup of tea, you'll have a slightly better very large image
to print.
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