= Welcome to SeamzGood =

SeamzGood is an image processing software. It implements the seam-carving algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir at [http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ SIGGRAPH 2007].

It is based upon SDL and OpenglGL (through [http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict Derelict]).

Discussion forums is [http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=201 here].

WARNING : the purpose of Seamzgood is very specific (and quite useless) so this project is not maintained anymore.


== Download ==

 * current version (0.9.1) is here ([http://www.dsource.org/projects/seamzgood/browser/downloads/SeamzGood.zip?format=raw zip] / [http://www.dsource.org/projects/seamzgood/browser/downloads/SeamzGood.tar.gz?format=raw tar]).

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== Features ==

Here is the list of SeamzGood's features :

 * resizing an image while preserving content
 * erasing an object from an image
 * protecting an object from further modification
 * moving an object in an image
 * user-friendly GUI
 * currently Windows only. Linux could be supported as most of the code is portable.


== Requirements ==

Here is the required configuration for executing SeamzGood :

 * Windows
 * OpenGL 2.0 (shaders required !)


== License ==

SeamzGood is distributed under the terms of the BSD license.


== What is seam-carving ? ==

The best introduction to seam-carving is to watch [http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc this video].

The original paper submitted at [http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ SIGGRAPH 2007] by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir is [http://www.seamcarving.com/arik/imret.pdf here].

Seam-carving exists also as free, open source C/C++ library : [http://liblqr.wikidot.com/ Liquid Rescale Library], used in a [http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ GIMP plugin].