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I would like to rotate a raster image by an arbitrary angle. I don't really care for speed: the rotation should be of highest quality possible. Could someone please suggest a suitable algorithm?

I'm familiar with the rotation by three shears but I'm not sure if the shears would not cause too much aliasing/blurring.

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  • $\begingroup$ The 'rotation by area mapping' algorithm described at leptonica.com/rotation.html looks like a good place to start $\endgroup$
    – russ
    Commented May 30, 2016 at 7:39

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It speed does not matter, I suggest to use a truncated sinc or a Lanczos isotropic kernel: to compute a target pixel, you back-rotate the filter and convolve it with the image. Since it is isotropic, it is separable and you can even use a square filter parallel to the axis of the source image.

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