Viewer2 Build 3321 Oct 03, 2007

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First of all, more eye candy (see the video). I hope it also makes things easier to understand in respect to where images go when sorting The searching has split into two: Fast Search and Deep Search. Fast Search uses indexing to find files very fast and Deep Search is the old search which is [...]

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C masochism, part 1 Sep 15, 2007

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I like C. I write tools in C that sane people write in Ruby or whatever the trendy script-like loosely typed language of the week is. But this is not about which language to choose. This is about doing stuff in C just because a lot of people think it’s 1.) limited, 2.) hard and [...]

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Conscience Cleared? Sep 12, 2007

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Viewer2 Build 2840 Sep 07, 2007

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A quick release for those who use Viewer2, a lot of half-ready stuff this time: Support for network paths (i.e. path starts with \\) Option to flag an image as a favorite (the heart icon), search with is:favorite Shows basic information about images with little icons (e.g. image has tags, image is favorite) Better date: [...]

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Image retargeting Sep 04, 2007

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Tags: Algorithms, Image resizing, Image retargeting, Software, Source code

Note: See below for the updated version. I saw this video of a SIGGRAPH paper about image retargeting (high res version here, read the paper here), that is rescaling an image so that the algorithm keeps the interesting areas intact and doesn’t squash everything. It’s called seam carving in the paper. The video made it [...]

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