Resizing benchmark

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1. pixel resize: creates a lot of jaggies and deform the image since it's meant to be used on diagrams or drawings.
2. weighted average: smoothes and deforms the image. A lot of details are dropped but there is no jaggies.
3. bilinear: adds pixels by averaging the color values of surrounding pixels. It gives jaggies but no deformation.
4. bicubic: gives more precise result based on an examination of the values of surrounding pixels. It maintains more details than bilinear.
5. smart: automatically selects the best resizing method. In this case the weighted average.