> Pretty violent term for describing removal of some pixels, if you ask > me... I too use downsample and upsample, and I think they both are > easier to understand. > > Art
Yes, it's roots seem to be quite violent. For people who design and work with digital imaging systems, it's a very common, and understood, term. People have no problem using interpolate, so why not decimate? I really don 't believe most people would find decimate is any harder to understand.
