kaolinfire

This is just amazing stuff. SIGGRAPH for the win. :)

"Seam carving for content-aware image resizing"

And what's awesome is while it's a brilliant idea... it's also relatively simple to implement, or at least straight-forward... there's probably an infinite amount of "art" to it as well, but...

If you have ANY interest in photography, you really have to watch this:



Thanks to indomitability for pointing this out to me. :)

And... here's a prototype: Liquid Resize

And an online demo: Seam Carving Demo

And some GPL'd source: Smart Image Resizing

And the original PDF is available from: Selected Publications, Ariel Shamir