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Smart Scene Carving Resizes Images Without Distortion


Take a look at this smart image resizing algorithm introduced at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group: Graphics) convention. Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, aims to make images just as dynamically resizable as text is on a web page by using a technique he calls "scene carving." We're also thinking it would make a convenient Photoshop plug-in. We really can't stand looking at stretched images, but this is a smart way to stretch or compress them. Bring it on! [Ariel Shamir, via YouTube]

1:00 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Charlie White
17,860 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: I want it, if only because it would let me FINALLY fit still images to 4:3 or 16:9 without cropping them like nuts. Lemme tell ya, there's nothing more annoying than having the perfect pic for that DVD menu and more »

i c u

Spellbinder Makes Invisible Artwork Appear When You Take a Picture

Say you're in Europe, standing in front of some medieval castle. You take a picture of it with your cameraphone and send it via MMS to Spellbinder. Soon you get a message back with your shot, only now there's a giant green fire-breathing dragon guarding the castle's gate. There are no elves in a sweatshop, magically overlaying images on top of your stuff. Rather there's a system that analyzes the shot, matches it to a huge database of other shots, then does what Spellbinder's programmers tell it to do. And it can do a whole lot more. More »

6:10 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,469 views, 7 comments

Latest by Fierock: When I first read this articale I didn't get it, because the castle/dragon and game/clothing examples don't really demonstrate the potential for this technology... Following the BBC link made more sense to me - if this was to become a more »

siggraph 2007

Solar Bikini Returns to Siggraph, Intimate Gaming Bra and Boxers Debut

Siggraph 2007 (which stands for Special Interest Group/Graphics) is underway, and one of our favorite parts of the annual design and innovation shindig is the Unravel fashion show, where this year's strange brew includes an updated version of the solar bikini and intimate controllers for a couple to play video games by touching each other. More »

8:27 AM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By Charlie White
13,950 views, 14 comments

Latest by vidmeister: Build one of these bad boys for Dolly Parton, and you could light up half of Cincinnati. more »

touchy feely

Haptic Glove Transmits Feelings to Your Hands; Porn Industry Excited Already

Apple isn't the only event happening today, you know. SIGGRAPH (a conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques) is happening in San Diego as well, and there's some pretty neat stuff being shown off there. This Haptic Glove, for example, transmits the feeling of holding an object in your hand from afar. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Adam Frucci
6,311 views, 7 comments

Sony's showing off their Cell processor ("Cell Broadband Engine and RSX graphics processor) at SIGGRAPH this week. The +230 GFLOP setup will be demoed processing 4K images. [Sony]

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more than meets the eye

Kameraflage Images Only Visible Through a Digital Camera

With Kameraflage, now you'll be able to plant subliminal messages on T-shirts, movies and billboards that can only be seen with digital cameras. This context-sensitive display technology, developed by Sarah Logie and Connor Dickie, works by using colors that are invisible to us but easily picked up by the cameras' silicon chips. As you can see, the lovely model above is wearing a shirt that only reveals that cloud's lightning bolt when seen through an iPhone's camera, although any ordinary unmodified digicam would get the same result. She just as easily could have placed her phone number in that cloud. Hmm. Let's think of some other uses for this cool tech. More »

8:27 AM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Charlie White
122,135 views, 39 comments

Latest by Ersatzhuman: that is amazing. more »

gadgets

Teledildonics Advanced Again: The Hug Shirt

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then the Hug Shirt adds a sensual experience to the equation, working with Bluetooth and special HugMe Java software to let you push buttons on your cellphone to hug your significant other miles away. As long as both of you are wearing this shirt that has sensors and actuators that simulate a hug, you can spread the love far and wide, transmitting data such as hug pressure, skin temperature, heart rate and hug duration. More »

11:07 AM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Charlie White
3,621 views, 39 comments

Latest by Queen_Of_Da_ATL: just give perverts a reason. just give ur niece this nice cozy jacket then let the fun begin. sickos. im sure people are tryin to make these things work in other areas as we speak. more »

gadgets

Intimate Partner Violence Clothing

This line of IPV clothing is the work of Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent. The clothing is made of pressure sensitive fabric that can detect and measure impact to that clothing, or body underneath. It will then relay the data and information to a remote server where it can be accessed by authorities or archived for other purposes. More »

12:43 PM on Mon Jul 24 2006
By Travis Hudson
462 views, 4 comments