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reesetee commented on the word seam carving
From Photojojo blog, a method of resizing a photo in which the computer analyzes the photo to determine what's important in the image, then eliminates first the areas that are not important as the image is sized down. "That means you can resize a photo to be half as wide without shrinking everyone in it, or even make a photo wider without making it look stretched. You can even pick areas you definitely want to leave alone, or areas you definitely want to lose, making it a super easy way to remove an ex or a stranger from a otherwise lovely photo." Works more or less as proportional spacing does with fonts, I believe. Also called content-aware image resizing.
October 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word seam carving
Oh god, this is a nightmare. I hope it works better than the "tool" on some other sites, which basically just screws up my freakin' photos. Bastards!
Cool phrase though.
October 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word seam carving
It does make you wonder, after you see it in action, just how different the final image can stray from the original. A fascinating idea, though.
October 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word seam carving
I don't know. It brings to mind plastectomies.
October 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word seam carving
And yet it's a far more imaginative term than content-aware image resizing, you ask me.
October 2, 2007