[Laszlo-user] OpenLaszlo Flickr Cinematic Zoom Slideshow App

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:07:16 Henry Minsky wrote:
> That is simply outstanding!! It beats the  hell out of a Mac iPhoto
> slideshows, because it works on the web.
It is quite cool. Y'know what my immediate thought was? Slightly beyond the 
scope of a cool demo, but anyway. I'm sure some of you saw that thing about 
intelligent photo resizing a while back ( 
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/i-want-this-in-photoshop-immediately/ )

It works by finding low-energy places in the picture, and making adjustments 
to them. The inverse also works, you can find high-energy locations which are 
likely to be areas of interest. So, as a pre-processing step (I don't know if 
this would be possible in Laszlo or not, actually), find those areas for each 
picture, and bias the zooming and panning to go towards them. That way, it 
will usually appear to be heading towards an object of interest (a person, a 
feature, or whatever). Just thinking this because I noticed it panning away 
from people, which looks strange.

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