Re: [pygame] Fast method for pixellated animation

[Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Jameson wrote:

Hi,
I would like an efficient way to generate an animated grey-scale

"pixellated" image... Another

way might be to just generate the image as a 100X100 image but "magnified"
and thus automatically obtaining the same result. Is this possible?

You could try using pygame.transform.scale(), which according
the docs does "not sample the results".

I always wondered about this.  Not sampling in a scaling operation doesn't make sense.  You need at least one sample to get a reconstruction.  I suppose what is intended is that nothing more sophisticated (slower) than nearest is done.