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Are there any ways to do some sort of upscaling for HiDPI displays? I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering.
by deviantintegral 2y ago
Are there any ways to do some sort of upscaling for HiDPI displays? I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering.
- vintagedave 2y agoI’ve wondered the same for classic (pretty, ie Aqua) OS X. I wonder if GPU neural net upscaling as used in video games would be a good way to go.
- duskwuff 2y ago> I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering. I'm not sure what that would even mean. Most of the UI was drawn from bitmaps - there isn't any higher resolution internal representation of e.g. a window border or a radio button.
- sintax 2y agoSounds like an opportunity to shove AI into some more products! :P
- simondotau 2y ago>I'm not sure what that would even mean. What it would mean is something like hq2x, 2xSaI or similar. These algorithms are popularly for emulation of 8 and 16 bit era games consoles. The example image on this Wikipedia page is illustrative of what's possible with a deterministic algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx_(algorithm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx_(algorithm) Imagine what could be possible with a well trained neural network, with knowledge of every icon, every element, and every font glyph at every bitmap size.
- rcarmo 2y agoYou can set up a Platinum theme on XFCE and have a pretty good analog (that's what I do).
- ayaros 2y agoNo, but there's an config option to enable integer scaling. It makes things look much crisper on a high DPI display.