Rotate
transformation is not applied about the center of an image
#1728
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Describe your changes
The
rotate
function finds the center of rotation as half the length and width of an image. This is offset from the actual center by half a pixel, and in some specific use-cases can significantly reduce the average color value of a rotated region. This PR updatesrotate
to account for the half-pixel offset to re-center rotation transformations.Type of update
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An example figure illustrating the effect of off-center rotation and 0 values being inserted, as well as the behavior with this bugfix, is shown here:
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