Everyone who has ever worked with digital images know that you resize an image either by cropping it (and potentially lose important parts of the image) or shrinking it (and lose size or contend with a distorted image).
Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, shows us another way: content-aware "smart" image sizing, where you can have your "image cake" and eat it too (you'll see what I mean):
Retargeting is a new technology focused on solving problems with changing sizesof digital photography, while traditional crops often fails to include all elements and resize may make the image too small to distinguish, retargeting, using an algorithm, recognizes what's relevant to the image, and column by column of pixels are removed.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Dr. Shamir's website - Thanks therror!
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http://rsizr.com/about/gallery/ for example images
If you are looking for a software to try out seam carving, take a look at www.thegedanken.com/retarget
The program that you can download there (for Windows and Linux, and free) is already highly optimized concerning speed, and apart from enlarging or decreasing image size you can also use masks to protect or delete certain parts of your image.
Have fun,
Irmgard
Or try to pull down a tree that is longer than their truck with said truck.
It would save parents a lot of lecturing which kids don't listen to anyway.
Aside from that, this is another good reason to encourage math studies in school, especially geometry.
Right after the tree crushes the truck, you can see the driver exit from the passenger side.
FAIL
Good news is it didn't hit any body or any thing of value.
100' an exaggeration? Truth is I have no idea anymore, but there were three or four guy wires at each anchor, and when we hack-sawed up the thing the pieces filled the 6X6.
And actually, the driver exits the driver's side door.
What did I expect to see? Either that, or the broken cable knocking the house down (I assume it wouldn't have been shown here if the broken cable had beheaded somebody--which is a high likelihood outcome--consider if the cable had broken near the tree. The real idiots are the people standing around, the driver is relatively safe inside the truck.
You know, I don't think I've ever seen a palm tree up close. My travels throughout this grand country have neatly circumvented the areas in which palm trees are common. There are a lot of monkey puzzle trees around here, though.
That might have ended up with a funnier video too.