Super image enhancement

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 20081121 1331 GMT-5
>>>
>>> I am looking for a either software or a plugin for gimp for super image
>>> enhancement.
>> There are some interesting upscaling formulae out there - I saw one a
>> while back that used fractal math for upscaling, but I've *never* seen
>> software that could upscale without losing quality.
>
> I thought I saw something recently that used multiple images to 'fill
> in the gaps' so to speak - the obvious application being video or film
> where lots of slightly different frames of the same thing might be
> available, and by combining them you get a better image.  Not that it
> will help the OP in this case, but I thought I'd mention as it
> sounding interesting....

While we're wandering off-topic, this is neat stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc

The magic starts to happen around 0:50 :)

There is a plug-in for GIMP:
http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/

Haven't played with it in a few months, but this is a nice way to
upscale or resize images - won't really help the OP though...

Chris