Depixelizing Pixel Art

[YayMii]

FYI, the document also covered that the algorithm doesn't work for everything. They included one example of where it fails.

Spoiler: ugly vectorization of face from Doom

Note that this doesn't mean it fails a lot. They put a note saying this only happens on antialiased images.

@Rydian: What about the video examples?

 

[Fishaman P]

WOW.

Here's hoping we get a batch converter that we can use to generate tons of N64 hi-res texture packs!

 

[Rydian]

@Rydian: What about the video examples?

Pretty sure those weren't done on a DS.

 

[YayMii]

@Rydian: What about the video examples?

Pretty sure those weren't done on a DS.

But aren't we talking about emulation in general? Wouldn't it benefit for emulation on home consoles, PCs, homebrew devices (i.e. Dingoo) or the 3DS?

 

[notmeanymore]

Man, I wanna see Sonic 2 done like this.

 

[Rydian]

But aren't we talking about emulation in general? Wouldn't it benefit for emulation on home consoles, PCs, homebrew devices (i.e. Dingoo) or the 3DS?

Depends on the system doing the emulating and what it's emulating. It's gotta' apply a filter ~30 times a second on top of the emulation, remember.

 

[whoomph]

Man, I wanna see Sonic 2 done like this.

Sonic 2 HD?

 

[notmeanymore]

Man, I wanna see Sonic 2 done like this.

Sonic 2 HD?

That's a redraw. I want to see what this algorithm would do.

 

[cosmiccow]

It is now hosted at Microsoft, so there shouldn't be a problem with availability/downtime anymore.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/peo...lart/index.html

There a lot of comparison pics with a dozen different upscaling algorithms (and video samples).