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Mipmap support for Kaiser / Lanczos filtering

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing WIC-backed filtering implementation and reading the linked GD Mag articles; done would require agreed behavior and coverage for Kaiser and Lanczos mipmap generation.

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Description

proposal

The current filtering modes are only those supported by WIC. Some texture pipelines have implemented more advanced filtering, such as Kaiser or Lanczos filtering, which can produce higher-quality mipmaps.

Advanced filters like Kaiser are covered in this GD Mag article: part 1, part 2

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