I'd love to see res indie in OS 10.7, but bitmaps will probably prevent that from happening, though http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/2/ looks like a promising way of making bitmap scaling possible.
Nah, unfortunately that algorithm does not magically make bitmaps scale. The image example they gave is grossly misleading. It works well on certain types of sparse information in Fourier space.