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Which pixel-centre convention and alpha handling does OpenImageIO use in resize, resample and warp, and does resize premultiply?

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OpenImageIO's resize/resample/warp code uses a half-pixel centre convention, and the transform file does no premultiplication: alpha is filtered like other channels unless the caller premultiplies (the docs provide separate premult/unpremult functions). Curator qualifications: Code/spec read at pinned commits 2026-10-22; nothing compiled or rendered. Docs-level statements (imagebufalgo.md/.h) taken from producer reading. Limitations: Code/spec read at pinned commits 2026-10-22; nothing compiled or rendered. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO/blob/febb1748a5a1b4f3da48d27aaae5a314b70c8f87/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_xform.cpp",
      "note": "OpenImageIO src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_xform.cpp at febb1748 (raw), L636, L723, L776; whole-file search"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO/blob/febb1748a5a1b4f3da48d27aaae5a314b70c8f87/src/include/OpenImageIO/imagebufalgo.h",
      "note": "OpenImageIO src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_xform.cpp at febb1748 (raw), L636, L723, L776; whole-file search"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO/blob/febb1748a5a1b4f3da48d27aaae5a314b70c8f87/src/doc/imagebufalgo.md",
      "note": "OpenImageIO src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_xform.cpp at febb1748 (raw), L636, L723, L776; whole-file search"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[inference] OpenImageIO's resize/resample/warp code uses a half-pixel centre convention, and the transform file does no premultiplication: alpha is filtered like other channels unless the caller premultiplies (the docs provide separate premult/unpremult functions). · locator: OpenImageIO src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_xform.cpp at febb1748 (raw), L636, L723, L776; whole-file search source

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documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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