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  • adjective Of or pertaining to interpolation in two dimensions using cubic splines or other polynomials (technique for sharpening enlargements of digital images).

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ cubic

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Examples

  • Price delivers just enough of the technical details of computer animation-dropping terms such as bicubic patches, Z-buffer, and texture mapping-while staying rooted in the human and business realities of executive pissing matches, stock option shenanigans, and sweet success after a long battle.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • First I drew every animation step of all characters with the smallest sized (1x1) pen in Photoshop at 72 dpi. (without bicubic interpolation).

    Video Games on Vimeo 2010

  • BlowUp offers the highest quality image resizing available, better than bicubic interpolation and any other third party solution.

    Alien Skin - Blow Up | Happy Share oska at 9:24 PM 2009

  • They all use bilinear filtering rather than something reasonable like bicubic or lanczos or, really, anything that looks decent.

    Raising the standard for avatars | FactoryCity 2007

  • I tried it out with some decimation settings on some test images and particularly a zone plate image, and it showed more aliasing than a conventional triangle filter (precise bilinear in VirtualDub) or bicubic decimation filter -- not too surprising for a box filter.

    VirtualBlog phaeron 2010

  • A proper resize (e.g. bicubic, lanczos) instead of "line skipping" or

    Doom9's Forum scharfis_brain 2010

  • · Creates high-quality thumbnails (using bicubic interpolation).

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Internal print optimization algorithms use high quality resampling algorithms (much higher quality than traditional bicubic methods) to ensure that you never again have to worry about DPI, print sizes, or resolution numbers.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

  • - Added support for calculating the video bitrate when using the PCM audio codec - Converted the code for the bicubic software scaler parameters to be menu driven - Added one 'Insane High Quality' preset (ihq) which uses the Hadamard-based motion estimation algorithm - Enabled AAC audio support for the Matroska container.

    Doom9's Forum froggy1 2010

  • NET has already had decent bilinear and bicubic decimation support available through System.

    VirtualBlog phaeron 2010

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