Intelligent image resizing. Very clever.

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A mighty fine idea, and not that hard to implement. Seems to entail dynamic programming (a backtracking numerical method).

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Wow! and so natural, like water finding the path of least resistance.

Thanks.

Jean

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This was at this year’s SIGGRAPH. Impressive stuff.

What’s even more impressive is that this has already been implemented as a GIMP plugin. :smiley:

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Very interesting : that is so clever and elegant …
I hope he protected the idea: Adobe, Corel and co won’t be long to react.
Or does this technology already exist on mainstream softwares ?

Thanks for showing us this video !

EDIT Arf sorry Fweeb: i didn’t see your post

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The best part is, there’s already a GIMP plugin for it: “Liquid Resize”. Comes with the masking features.

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Theres another thread on this somewhere.

Anyway, it’s also pretty easy to code. Just use what’s basically an A* search to find the cheapest path. Only takes 2 passes (one down, then trace up). I’d like to see some more interesting ways of being able to take out multiple seams at once though.