[Gimp-user] Image resizing based upon image content

[Konstantin Svist]

Daniel Hornung wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>   
>> Kevin Cozens wrote:
>>     
>>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>       
>>>> There is an amazing video describing an image resizing algorithm that
>>>> removes (or adds) pixels based upon their importance to the subjecto
>>>> of the photo. Can this be implemented in The Gimp?
>>>>         
>
> http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/
> and the video for it is here
> http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:examples
>
> Only problem now:  It's located in the layers menu, which should be changed to 
> filters->something
>   
Actually, I think it's a feature.
See, it uses different layers to mark areas which should be preserved 
and areas to be removed (just paint it with paintbrush and go).
Unfortunately, it's nowhere near as fast as the one shown in the video. 
And, as a corollary, it can't be used to see the difference while resizing.
Someone mentioned (on some blog) that this plugin uses some generic math 
library and would work better with specialized algorithms.