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In The Air Tonight

joeydi — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:20:00 +0000

Can’t really go wrong with a gorilla playing the drums…

Polaroids

joeydi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:16:57 +0000

I’m sure this video has made its way to most of your eyeballs by now, but it was languishing in my “To Blog” file for far too long, so… enjoy. Craftylicious!

Tomatoes

joeydi — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:11:43 +0000

To the lady at Subway: You only put two fucking tomatoes on my sandwich. If one of them falls off while you are wrapping it up, do you think you could put it back on the sandwich, instead of putting it in the trash. If tomatoes are so precious that you can only afford to give me two god-damned slices, shouldn’t you avoid wasting them? Thank you, and have a nice day.

Seam carving: content-aware image resizing

joeydi — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:23:33 +0000

“Seam carving” allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces).

This is so cool. With more publishing moving to the web, this seems like a great alternative to static images. It would allow you tool preserve the content of an image along with the integrity of a layout. I imagine it will be quite a while before we see a viable implementation of this technology.

On the other hand I can see simple uses of this concept that seem easy to implement. For example, if you had a portrait, and you wanted the image to be dynamically resized, but not scaled, you could set the pixel coordinate of the center of the face, and the browser would just center the face in the frame.

That coordinate information could be saved in an external file, so you would have portrait.jpg, and portrait.jgw, where .jgw is just a text file that contains the added info.

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