1. A method comprising: detecting content that represents original image information; detecting a direction of the content wherein the direction corresponds to a portion of the original image information; computing local orientation on a plurality of scales amongst neighboring pixels that are represented by the original image information by varying a scale of each neighborhood being considered, wherein local orientation is computed by summing two dimensional covariance matrices of image attributes in neighboring pixels, and wherein the image attributes comprise at least one of pixel color and illumination intensity; combining the plurality of scales of computed local orientations to determine a degree of variation amongst adjacent pixels, wherein the variation is determined by a similarity or dissimilarity of the plurality of scales of computed local orientations; and generating new image information based on the direction of the content and the variation amongst the adjacent pixels.