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Scale the image to be no greater than the given width or height, keeping its aspect ratio. Scaling up (i.e. stretching the image to a greater size) is disabled when the image is framed. Link Link the image to a different resource, or to nothing. Alt Specify the alt text for the image. This is intended for visually impaired readers.
thumb – displays the image as a framed thumbnail at the user's default size; frameless – displays the image as an unframed at the user's default size; upright – scales the image to approximately 75% of the user's default size (25% smaller) upright=0.8 – scales the image to approximately 80% of the user's default size (20% smaller)
The resulting image is larger than the original, and preserves all the original detail, but has (possibly undesirable) jaggedness. The diagonal lines of the "W", for example, now show the "stairway" shape characteristic of nearest-neighbor interpolation. Other scaling methods below are better at preserving smooth contours in the image.
Some users have small screens or need to configure their systems to display large text; "forced" large thumbnails can leave little width for text, making reading difficult. In addition, forcing a "larger" image size at say 260px will actually make it smaller for those with a larger size set as preference.
You then get to choose the size of the image you want. Take care when resizing. The only way to make an image smaller is to throw away some of the pixels. If the image contains text, the pixels that get thrown away are not necessarily the ones that a human being would choose. If the top few pixels of the letter d are lost it becomes an a.
Image scaling can be interpreted as a form of image resampling or image reconstruction from the view of the Nyquist sampling theorem.According to the theorem, downsampling to a smaller image from a higher-resolution original can only be carried out after applying a suitable 2D anti-aliasing filter to prevent aliasing artifacts.
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For lengthy captions under narrow images, it's probably best to add a heights= parameter to make the images somewhat larger, as the default small size can lead to overly long stacks of caption text. See below. Packed-overlay: This uses <gallery mode=packed-overlay> to produce captions overlaying the bottom of the image. The captions are ...