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Maurice Denis, MoMA.When important objects are smooth, they end up looking rather emaciated. |
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flickr + matlab fun. This picture is both a success and a failure. The seam carving is flawless; however, the gradient fails to reflect a human notion of importance, and thus large stretches of high-frequency beach are preserved. |
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flickrfun. The duck is very smooth compared to the high-frequency water, and thus ends up doing a strange dance move. |
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MC Escher. Seams pass through lines, removing structure. |
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Felix del Marle, MoMA. This image is both a success and a failure. It has the same problem as the previous Escher work. However, new art is created!. |
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George Grosz, MoMA. I was surprised this came out so bad, with the same problem as above. The smooth regions are still noisy, colorwise, so seams pass through edges. |
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flickr. High frequency background means the lady's head is seam carved. |
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Leopold Survate, MoMA. Too noisy. |
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Lyubov Popova, MoMA. So much for being clever. |
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Kupka, MoMA. Great picture for a gradient energy function. |
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MC Escher. Self similarity! A great place for scene carving. The results look suspiciously like scaling, though. |
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MC Escher. Large monochrome blocks are easy to carve. |
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MC Escher. This distorts the structure somewhat, but you don't notice it at first, since Escher paintings are disorienting anyway. |
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Matisse, MoMA. Weight loss via seam carving. |
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Van Gogh, MoMA. Landscaping via seam carving. |