* line (equal to 1, say, on a black=0 background) is exactly
* preserved when no-op is applied to the image. It also
* ensures that---with no-op---the nearest two columns on
- * either side are minimally changed. Specifically, nearest
- * columns on the left and the right are raised to c from
- * zero, and the second closest columns on the left and right
- * are lower by c from 0. (Hence, the closest columns are made
- * slightly positive, and the second closest are made slightly
- * negative, equally.) All the other columns are
- * unchanged. The size c of this blur/ripple is .002042317
+ * either side are minimally changed (the farther columns are
+ * unchanged). Specifically, nearest columns on the left and
+ * the right are raised to c from zero, and the second closest
+ * columns on the left and right are lower by c from
+ * 0. (Hence, the closest columns are made slightly positive,
+ * and the second closest are made slightly negative, in equal
+ * amounts.) The size c of this blur/ripple is .002042317
* (about one fifth of one percent). Consequently, this choice
* of scaling of the support of the standard Lanczos2D
* preserves "contant on columns" images with values between
- * -1 and 1 to within .00817 (within one percent).
+ * -1 and 1, to within .00817 (within one percent).
*
- * This special scaling was discovered by Nicolas Robidoux of
- * Laurentian University.
+ * This special scaling of the standard Lanczos2D kernel in
+ * the context of Elliptical Weighted Average resampling was
+ * discovered by Nicolas Robidoux of Laurentian University.
*
* resize_filter->blur, below, is 1/s.
*/