SEAMonster, a personal project of Mike Swanson's, has nothing to do with the cool SeaDragon technology, despite the similar name. Instead, SEAMonster is an app that lets you perform seam carving on your photos. What is seam carving? It's a photo-resizing algorithim developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir that reduces or enlarges pictures by intelligently removing pixels.
By performing seam carving, you can scale photos by a wide range, while retaining the details. (Normal scaling techniques normally can't go beyond a factor of 2 or less than 0.5.). The SEAMonster application uses Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0, so you'll need that first. When you're ready to get started, check out the 8-minute video intro Mike recorded in lieu of documentation.
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