[comp.graphics] Anti-pixellating alogrithm: is it possible ?

elf@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elf Sternberg) (02/06/91)

        I may have stepped on me' Lucky Charms coming into this 
newsgroup, since I'm not good at graphics work, but I've got an Amiga, 
and a problem.
        I've got a number of Anime' X-rated videotapes (funny as that 
sounds), and some of them have that expanded-square effect to "blur" the 
image.  If I've got a number of frames (several hundred, in fact), is it 
possible to estimate in-algorithm by the change in pixellate color and 
the speed of certain defining lines in a given scene, after dividing the 
pixellated square into quaters, what those quarters might contain?  And 
do this again and again until the original pixel-size is restored?
        Obviously this has got a lot more applications than just decoding 
the censorship on japanese animation.  Most of them having to do with 
seeing the actual person hidden behind the pixellates during interviews 
where "This person's identity hidden for safety reasons."
        But is it possible?
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