Image Seam Carving, Online.
October 1, 2007 5:03 AM   Subscribe

Remember this? It's content-aware image resizing. Well, now it's alive online.

Links to plugins, the paper, etc. So far there's only one plugin, for GIMP, but it also has the link to some actionscript about it.
posted by flibbertigibbet (25 comments total) 22 users marked this as a favorite
 
There goes my morning productivity, out the window...
posted by melorama at 5:09 AM on October 1, 2007


Doesn't seem to be fully optimized yet. "resizer" only got pared down to "rsizr"--they left a vowel on the table.
posted by DU at 5:26 AM on October 1, 2007 [3 favorites]


Also, they have incorrectly detected me as not having Flash 9.
posted by DU at 5:27 AM on October 1, 2007


And for my third comment: No, I'm wrong. There's a release today for Flash 9 on Linux! They were right! AND this version works better for me! Yay for awesome!
posted by DU at 5:32 AM on October 1, 2007


All hail LazyWeb! That was pretty damn fast to get it up as a web site 'n everything. Now to find some photos.
posted by GuyZero at 5:57 AM on October 1, 2007


Running it, however, is sloooooooow.

Let me add a few more "o"s there.

Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
posted by GuyZero at 5:59 AM on October 1, 2007


So far there's only one plugin, for GIMP

When I blogged about this yesterday, I found there was also a Photoshop plugin (which is also mentioned on the page you linked to), Picutel's Smart Resize.

Smart Resize is commercial, though; the evaluation version only works on images 640 by 480 or smaller.
posted by dansdata at 6:00 AM on October 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


Do not, under any circumstances, use this to resize porn.
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:33 AM on October 1, 2007


I solved goatse.cx! (might still be NSFW)

/me proceeds to register scrtmr.com
posted by furtive at 6:36 AM on October 1, 2007 [7 favorites]


It really does what it says. And the whole seam-carving thing is amazingly awesome.

But uh, as soon as rszirszrzr or whatever it is finishes doing the carving, it resets the image? what? I don't really know what's going on here. I probably need more sleep.

I like that there are PS plugins though. I'll have to mess with those.
posted by blacklite at 6:47 AM on October 1, 2007


For some reason, it doesn't like my Flash version in IE. I see the javascript detecter is returning "NaN" for one of its evaluations, so I'm sure that's the culprit.

I finally got it to work under Firefox, after also upgrading Flash.
posted by thanotopsis at 6:54 AM on October 1, 2007


Didn't work for me; it took a long time to upload the image and then showed a plain grey screen.
posted by rottytooth at 7:00 AM on October 1, 2007


Actually there's been a version online for quite some time, also flash based. It was very slow, though.
posted by delmoi at 7:24 AM on October 1, 2007


This a very cool concept, but I was under the impression from the first post that this was supposed to happen in real-time as you rescaled the browser window. Otherwise, what's the point?
posted by itchylick at 7:42 AM on October 1, 2007


Wow. That's pretty much all I have to say. Wow.
posted by sveskemus at 7:44 AM on October 1, 2007


blacklite: Once it has resized the image you can use the grab handles to drag it whatever size you like (up to your limit).
posted by markdj at 7:44 AM on October 1, 2007


blacklite: I thought that too, but when it looks like it has reverted to the original, try using the resize handles - it now lets you resize anywhere between the original and the size you chose, in real time.
posted by jiroczech at 7:50 AM on October 1, 2007


Very cool. Try it out with a small picture (200 px on a side or so)—very fast.
posted by adamrice at 8:03 AM on October 1, 2007


just tried it out, and it threw an error. oooh, as3/flex sites love throwing me errors.
posted by localhuman at 8:03 AM on October 1, 2007


Very very cool. Thank you. Although I have now lost the morning :-p
posted by reformedjerk at 8:09 AM on October 1, 2007


Ok, now I get it. Didn't realize you could scale after it did all the calculations.
posted by itchylick at 8:28 AM on October 1, 2007


If automation like this gets any more sophisticated I'm going to need a new job. This is very impressive.
posted by Grod at 9:15 AM on October 1, 2007


I buried Paul.
posted by rory at 9:26 AM on October 1, 2007 [7 favorites]


Also: Does it only downsize?

Well, once it finishes the calculation, you can drag it larger the original, but I wasn't very impressed with the results.
posted by smackfu at 10:13 PM on October 1, 2007


Works, a bit slowly, with a 5 megapixel image for me.
posted by IronLizard at 10:11 AM on October 2, 2007


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