Archive for the 'photos' Category

Smart image editing

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

First off, since I already mentioned web-based photoshop, here’s an update (don’t worry, there’s a video, you won’t need to read anything).
Second, here’s a hot video demoing some content-aware image resizing research first presented at SIGGRAPH 2007. It’s a fairly simple idea that works surprisingly well.

Normally when you shrink an image you either make [...]

Attack of the killer tomatoes

Monday, August 27th, 2007

My house has been getting weekly vegetables from a Scratch Farm thanks to one of Rhode Island’s many fine CSAs. Last week we received several delicious heirloom tomatoes and one giant freak tomato which threatened the sanctity of our kitchen. From the angle of this photo, it looks a lot like leatherface in produce [...]

Extremes

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Following some rather lengthy posts, here’s a photo of the world’s tallest man meeting the world’s shortest man. Oddly they are both from the same part of Mongolia.

Also, here’s a story about the world’s oldest person who happens to live in the same Indiana country as the world’s tallest women. Simply amazing!

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