Shrinking is mostly used when images don't fit in a given viewport. For this they are scaled down horizontally and vertically, to fit in the viewport. There are many ways of doing this; the easiest way is taking the average of the pixels you are combining and keep that as the color of the combined pixel.
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shrinking — UK US /ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ/ adj [before noun] ► becoming smaller or less: »The shrinking workforce would have to support a growing number of retired people. rapidly/steadily/slowly shrinking »The rapidly shrinking middle class worries that our children won… … Financial and business terms
Shrinking — Shrink ing, a. & n. from {Shrink}. [1913 Webster] {Shrinking head} (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; called also {sinking head}, and {riser} … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shrinking — shrinking; un·shrinking; … English syllables
shrinking — index decrease, diffident, disinclined, hesitant, reluctant, unobtrusive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
shrinking — A body repair technique used to repair locally stretched areas by using heat or special body hammers. See heat shrinking resistance shrinking … Dictionary of automotive terms
Shrinking — Shrink Shrink, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shrinking — adjective Possessing the property of reducing in size or significance. Shes a shrinking violet, whenever people look at her she gets smaller … Wiktionary
shrinking — adj. Shrinking is used with these nouns: ↑market, ↑pool … Collocations dictionary
Shrinking the footprint — is a campaign by the Church of England to reduce its carbon footprint. The campaign is being lead by the Bishop of London, Dr Richard Chartres and was launched on World Environment Day in June 2006 with an invitation to all churches to carry out… … Wikipedia
Shrinking Violet (film) — Shrinking Violet Données clés Titre original Shrinking Violet Réalisation Peter Howitt Scénario Danielle Joseph Acteurs principaux Debby Ryan Atticus Dean Mitchell Sarena Parmar Adam DiMarco … Wikipédia en Français
