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I wrote a version of this in javascript with a live demo you can play with at https://alexander.soto.io/seam-carving

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Your JavaScript version is very easy to use, and I'm so glad I can upload my own images instead of just using examples!

The algorithm itself looks like it needs face (and body) detection to be really useful, though.

Example: My girlfriend and I on holiday in Australia.

Original:

http://peterburk.free.fr/seamCarving/lighthouse.jpg

Shrunk:

http://peterburk.free.fr/seamCarving/lighthouse_seamCarving....

Am I the only one getting a laugh out of this? I also tried it on myself and the result was funny.

With a little change to the algorithm, you can mark areas as "must not change" and "must change", basically manually marking areas as "high energy" and "low energy".

In all fairness, the read me says “Todo: face detection”

That's true, and I agree with the author!

It will be more complicated than it seems, though, because I just tried the GUI version from gabeiscoding above, and got the following result:

http://peterburk.free.fr/seamCarving/lighthouse_seamCarvingG...

Yeah, but the lighthouse looks great!

That's really neat!

With my tongue somewhat-in-cheek, I wanted to point you that you may want to be careful with that sample pic of the Eiffel Tower at night!

See: https://petapixel.com/2017/10/14/photos-eiffel-tower-night-i...

Unable to resize on mobile. Consider giving some margin or padding on the right of the image so one can drag the line to resize.

That's _extremely_ cool! Thanks for sharing

Super awesome!

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