<table><tr><td style="">bruns added a comment.
</td><a style="text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 8px; margin: 0 8px 8px; float: right; color: #464C5C; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#fff,#f1f0f1); display: inline-block; border: 1px solid rgba(71,87,120,.2);" href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D14308">View Revision</a></tr></table><br /><div><div><p>I think the following yields quite good results:</p>
<div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);">qreal distance(int width, int height, int desiredWidth, int desiredHeight)
{
auto targetSamples = desiredWidth * desiredHeight;
auto xscale = (1.0 * desiredWidth) / width;
auto yscale = (1.0 * desiredHeight) / height;
// clamp to the lower of the two scales
// also clamp to one, as scaling up adds no effective
// samples, only interpolated samples
auto sampleScale = min(1, min(xscale, yscale));
// number of effective source samles in the target
auto effectiveSamples = width * height * scale * scale;
// scale down another time, to account for loss of fidelity when
// using a downscaled image, biases towards smaller downscaling ratios
effectiveSamples *= scale;
return targetSamples - effectiveSamples;
}</pre></div>
<div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);"></pre></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R320 KIO Extras</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D14308">https://phabricator.kde.org/D14308</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>broulik, Frameworks, dfaure, ngraham, pali, vonreth, antlarr<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>anthonyfieroni, bruns<br /></div>