Digital BW, The Print

> Another newcomer question: What do you mean by "decimation"? Thanks.
>
> Charles Whitaker

Hi Charles,

No problem.  Decimation is the opposite of interpolation.  Interpolation is
adding data between original data points.  Decimation is taking data points
away.  If you have an image of 640 x 480 and want to resize it to 320 x 240,
you'd basically remove every other pixel.  The algorithm can get a lot more
sophisticated than that, but that's the basic premise.  Decimation
technically means remove every tenth, but in signal processing, it can be
reducing by any number.

Regards,

Austin