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09-03-2007, 12:00 PM #1
Revolutionary resizing technique announced
This is pretty dang cool. I expect to start seeing this become defacto on the web.
I wish my lawn was EMO so it would cut itself.
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09-03-2007 12:00 PM # ADS
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09-03-2007, 01:02 PM #2
I saw that a week ago, wonder how long it will be before it hits the consumer market
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09-03-2007, 07:42 PM #3
Wow, that's cool.
I've noticed this being done on some of my images "involuntarily" when I would resize them. I'd flip back and forth through the same image, and I'd notice certain columns missing.
Do you think this technology will be open source, or free?
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09-04-2007, 09:20 AM #4
Hopefully it'll be free. There's reports that there is some sort of coordinated effort with Adobe, so I'm assuming we'll see it as an Adobe plugin only. I'm sure someone could come up with a similar plugin for GIMP or Paint.net, just won't be as efficient. What would be really cool and what I think would be revolutionary is if the web browser was the tool that was doing the resizing on the fly. Adobe is pretty good at making their viewers free to download so I'm sure we would see this do the same thing. The only gotcha is it would have to become a "standard" like flash or pdf so that most browsers would have the viewer and websites would be willing to post content this way.
One other possibility would be that the web server itself would pre-scale the image based on the device you are using. It wouldn't scale as you resized your browser window, but that also means it could send the image out as a jpg format that all browsers support. It'll be interesting to see how (and if) this all plays out.I wish my lawn was EMO so it would cut itself.
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09-04-2007, 09:58 AM #5
Wow, that's some amazing technology. I wonder just how processor intensive it is, the way it searches for paths and averages, and all...
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09-04-2007, 10:19 AM #6
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by KillEmAll
i am not sure what you mean by de facto on the web, but why do you think this is useful for the web?
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09-04-2007, 10:27 AM #7
I don't get it. Why would you want your pictures to be manipulated in a non uniform manner? Seems weird to me... Wouldn't the image get distorted and what not?
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09-04-2007, 11:14 AM #8Originally Posted by CarpeyBiggs
one reason, i imagine, would be to preserve dominant features of the image, rather than treat everything equally.
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09-04-2007, 11:56 AM #9
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by stefanI wish my lawn was EMO so it would cut itself.
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09-04-2007, 04:19 PM #10Originally Posted by CarpeyBiggs
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09-04-2007, 06:05 PM #11Originally Posted by waltny
Seam Carving for content-aware image resizing
This new method of image resizing looks for seams (not simple columns or rows) of pixels with the 'least energy' (least contrast / change in detail) both vertically and horizontally in the image and then uses this to enable resizing without losing important image content such as human subjects or other detail. This technique can be used for reducing and enlarging images as well as removing items from the image which are not wanted (by manually painting 'negative weight' over an area of the image). But less of my waffle just jump in and watch this video of the algorithm in use, I assure you it will make considerably more sense. (Purist photographers look away now).
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09-04-2007, 06:13 PM #12
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by KillEmAll
The reason it would be great for the web is because as a web developer, your images would display appropriately independant of the viewing platform. I wouldn't have to worry about if my image is being displayed on a cell phone or a desktop. This makes mobile content much easier to manage from the providers side.
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09-04-2007, 08:19 PM #13Originally Posted by stefan
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09-05-2007, 07:42 AM #14
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by stefan
de facto [(di fak-toh, day fak-toh)]
Something generally accepted or agreed to without any formal decision in its favor
Originally Posted by stefanI wish my lawn was EMO so it would cut itself.
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09-05-2007, 08:43 AM #15
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by KillEmAll
just asking, i haven't thought too much about this stuff and you seemed pretty excited about it.
If you think about from the perspective from different devices and the size of the window your viewing it from, I think this would be where it could be used most appropriately. I wouldn't use this if I wanted to maintain the original image, but with things like ad content it would be great if my image could scale without me having to worry about who (or what device) is viewing it. Will that actually happen, I don't know. Nor do I care since I'm not a web developer, and I don't have an iPhone.
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09-05-2007, 10:13 AM #16
Re: Revolutionary resizing technique announced
Originally Posted by stefanI wish my lawn was EMO so it would cut itself.
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09-05-2007, 04:40 PM #17
I think there's a lot of debate on this technology. True, you wouldn't want your scenic award winning shots manipulated, but most photos on the web aren't of the outdoors. This breakthrough is geared towards PDAs and blackberry phones, for quick reference visuals.
Plus, I'll bet there'll be an option to right click on it and see the original file if you really wanted to.
I think it's great.
Another option, thinking of this forum, there are technologies out there that would let you upload your 3MB photo to a forum, and it would be resized for you and your viewers to the 800 X 600 size.
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