Now that's a kickass image resizing tool!

[ebc]

Check this out   it's about 17mb

It's an image resizing tool which instead of compressing or stretching the pixels and then blending them. It looks through the image for it's energy patterns and then by using algorithms takes out sections of the image that aren't really needed but keeping the original size of the key objects.
While this sounds kind of impossible and you'd think it would give poor results it's infact the most impressive thing I've seen in ages.

Really worth a look 

[~Dan~]

Sounds interesting.  A pity it's downloading at 2k/sec. 

[frblckstr1]

Just watched it (got a bit better download speed then  Dan

This sounds like a combination of fractal compression and some other technices used to 'stitch' picture together.

It does distort the end-result compare to the origional, but its not fully 'automatic' for example with the bears they edited the pups closer to the mother!

[StreakInTheSky]

woah, looks pretty damn cool, would make doing alot of things I'd like to do but too lazy to, easier

[~Dan~]

Impressive!  I just watched it now.  I'd forgotten all about it until I saw this thread again!

[kukine]

Is this tool available to download and use?
Downloading as I type this, ... 1 hr left, blah

EDIT: Just watched it, really amazing what they can do with images. And I guess this software wont be available anytime soon.

[Asmodai]

Pretty amazing. It's interesting how easily images can be distorted. Really can't trust pictures any more.

[Masabi]

for those of us who dont want to download there's a YT streaming here:
http://www.seamcarving.com/

download a prototype:
http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget/

google is my friend ^_^

[kwanleekwan]

That's a cool tool

[Dronak]

I recently heard about this liquid rescaler when a plugin for The GIMP came out.  You can get the plugin at http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ if you're interested.  It looks interesting, but I had trouble getting it to do what I wanted.  Of course, I'm not big on image editing, so that may have had something to do with it.