ImageMagick Resize Filters
This page demonstrates the results of resampling of one natural scene image using the various resize filters available in ImageMagick, and the file size of the resulting thumbnail images. Click the image filename at the top to see the fullsize image.
The script used to generate this page is adapted from the Perl and PerlMagick one from Dylan Bettie.
The command used is:
convert image-in -filter filter -resize sidex image-out
The results
| sighignola.jpg (Click for original image) size: 5176x1776 reduced to: 700x240 | ||
| Filter | Downscaled | Detail |
| Lanczos |  44.22 Kb |
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| Point |  57.6 Kb |
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| Box |  43.25 Kb |
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| Triangle |  39.14 Kb |
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| Hermite |  40.55 Kb |
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| Hanning |  40.65 Kb |
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| Hamming |  39.41 Kb |
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| Blackman |  42.29 Kb |
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| Gaussian |  37.27 Kb |
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| Quadratic |  36.69 Kb |
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| Cubic |  34.93 Kb |
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| Catrom |  42.56 Kb |
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| Mitchell |  39.75 Kb |
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| Bessel |  38.84 Kb |
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| Sinc |  43.72 Kb |
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