4225: Seam Carfield
| Seam Carfield |
 Made by: wye |
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Using content-aware scaling on a Garfield strip has been done before, but because I implemented this one from scratch myself, I thought it'd still be worth submitting.
This kind of scaling uses a process called seam carving: to shorten an image horizontally by one pixel, identify a continuous seam going from top to bottom (connecting pixels diagonally counts as continuous) that passes through the least interesting parts of the image, then remove the pixels along that seam. I simply repeated that process until the strip compressed to a size I decided I was happy with.
The outcome isn't spectacular, probably because 1) my implementation is almost certainly flawed and 2) the original strip doesn't have a lot to reasonably cut out. Still, looking at it for a while and then comparing it with the original strip, that one looks positively spacious!
(In hindsight, using a strip like the 1997-11-08 one would have made for a better joke, because it literally features a content-aware scale.)
Original strip: 2018-10-27.
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SFX: GLITCH!
Off-screen voice: RATS!!
{A disgruntled mouse walks in, tossing away a knife}
Mouse: You just can't carve a grape
