Unless you’ve been asleep in a ditch (that can’t get wireless internet) you’ll have heard about Seam Carving and would’ve been wondering how long it will take for the ActionScript community to get in line. Well, it didn’t take long.
For those who came in late, Dr Ariel Shamir and Dr Shai Avidan have developed a process that enables you to resize images without losing key visual information. Since then, I’ve seen three or four attempts to achieve the effect in ActionScript and all have been quite impressive.
First check out the YouTube demo and then see where we’re up to in terms of an ActionScript implementation.
So far, the best ActionScript attempt seems to be the Joa Ebert - Mario Klingemann brains trust.
Mario also points us towards a number of other efforts - here, here and here.
Link: Seam Carving academic paper
This stuff makes me want to do a PhD!
