Monday, December 26, 2005
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I've been pondering on a method of scaling down video under a certain number of overall pixels while maintaining aspect ratio. I came up with this:
width = sqrt(pixels * aspect)
height = sqrt(pixels / aspect)
So far that seems to work rather nicely. Is this correct, or is there a better way?
width = sqrt(pixels * aspect)
height = sqrt(pixels / aspect)
So far that seems to work rather nicely. Is this correct, or is there a better way?
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pixels = width * height
aspect = width / height
width = sqrt(pixels * aspect)
= sqrt((width * height) * (width / height))
= sqrt(witdth * width * height / height)
= sqrt(width^2)
= width
height = sqrt(pixels / aspect)
= sqrt((width * height) / (width / height))
= sqrt(height^2)
= height
So your equations are certainly true. And if you have both the number of pixels and the aspect ratio handy, and don't mind doing a square root, then it doesn't seem too bad. I can't claim for certain that there's no better way though.
Peter McCurdy.
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aspect = width / height
width = sqrt(pixels * aspect)
= sqrt((width * height) * (width / height))
= sqrt(witdth * width * height / height)
= sqrt(width^2)
= width
height = sqrt(pixels / aspect)
= sqrt((width * height) / (width / height))
= sqrt(height^2)
= height
So your equations are certainly true. And if you have both the number of pixels and the aspect ratio handy, and don't mind doing a square root, then it doesn't seem too bad. I can't claim for certain that there's no better way though.
Peter McCurdy.
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